Higher Level Teaching Assistant

Our wonderful and welcoming primary school in the heart of Salford, Manchester, have requested our support in the recruitment of a Higher-Level Teaching Assistant.

This role is to work within KS1 and will be Full Time. This role involves supporting the development of individual development plans for pupils and supporting the work of classroom volunteers and other teaching assistants. It is a fantastic role to help enable you to gain more classroom experience and potentially look to further into a trainee teacher role.

This is a long-term position with the possibility of teacher training support early next year!

Working with children within the early year sector, can be unbelievably rewarding, you can see the positive changes which you are making. Making a difference in their lives and enabling them to access mainstream lessons and curriculum can have such a big impact on their future. 

What to look forward to…

-        Preparing learning materials under the supervision of the class teacher
-        Look after a child’s physical, social, and emotional welfare
-        Create a stimulating and fun learning environment
-        Feedback to teachers and maintain the pupils’ records
-        Work with outside professionals to help create EHCPS for the pupil
-        Follow all safeguarding procedures

Why Smile?

-        Payday on each week to turn Friday into Fri-yay!
-        Competitive pay rates
-        Do the job you love when it suits you!
-        Dedicated consultant who works for you to find you the perfect roles!

Smile Education North West work with some of the BEST schools in the Greater Manchester Area and we want to help you find work in the school best suited for you! Get in touch today to talk through your experience or how you can get started on registering and being put forward for this role! Click APPLY now!

It is the aim of Smile Education to ensure that no employee or job applicant receives less favourable facilities or treatment (either directly or indirectly) in recruitment or employment on grounds of age, disability, gender/gender reassignment, marriage / civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation (the protected characteristics). Our aim is that our workforce will be truly representative of all sections of society and each employee feels respected and able to give their best.



We are committed to safeguarding children. Each applicant will be expected to undertake compliance checks including Prohibited list, Barred list, DBS and Qualifications.