Access Leader (Teaching Assistant)
The Marches School, Oswestry, Shropshire, SY11 2AR18 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
3 November 2025 at 9am
Date listed
16 October 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- Citizenship
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 hours per week , Term time only plus 2 PD Days
Contract type
- Fixed term - Fixed term to 31st August 2026 in the first instance
Hourly rate
- Grade 6, scp 9 (£14.13/hr, Actual Salary £23,082 per annum pro rata’d)
What skills and experience we're looking for
To be successful, you will:
- Be able to converse at all levels with staff, students and parents.
- Be able to plan effectively and have good understanding of child development.
- Have experience of innovation and creativity to engage, enthuse and progress learners.
- Think creatively to anticipate and solve problems.
- Embody the values of ‘Achievement through Caring’.
- Contribute fully to school life.
- Have high expectations of yourself and be a role model to others.
- Have an appreciation and awareness of child protection, confidentiality, health and safety, and data protection.
What the school offers its staff
We offer:
- Well-equipped classrooms with a variety of facilities
- an enthusiastic and supportive department team
- excellent professional learning and support at every stage in your career, with opportunity for continued personal development through our Talent Pathway
- a core belief in staff wellbeing and work life balance for all, evidenced in policy and practice
- year-round free membership to our state-of-the-art fitness suite
- benefits including funded counselling, physiotherapy and GP and other medical support.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
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About The Marches School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1396 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Marches School website
- Email address
- claire.tompsett@mar.mmat.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01691664400
The Marches School is a successful, forward-thinking 11-18 Academy, with 1,420 students currently on roll. Located in the attractive border town of Oswestry, the school enjoys a semi-rural location, within walking distance of the town centre. In 2013, The Marches opened its doors to the school's first ever Sixth Formers and now delivers a broad range of A-Levels and boasts modern, spacious Sixth Form Facilities.
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