12 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    May 2025

  • Closing date

    16 April 2025 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    27 March 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Other support roles

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time: 37 hours per week

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

Salary: Support Staff Pay Scale E: £22,865 to £24,371 pro-rata per annum (Actual) (£25,584 - £27,269 full time/full year equivalent)

What skills and experience we're looking for

Qualifications: • Good basic level of education preferably including GCSE (or equivalent) in Maths and English

Experience: • Experience of working with children • Experience of problem solving

Skills, Knowledge: • Able to work on own initiative and with minimal supervision • Evidence of the ability to build good working relationships with teaching staff and other stakeholders • IT Literate • Able to work under pressure • Ability to work constructively and flexibly as a part of a team • Ability to meet deadlines by effective planning and time management • Good communication skills, both written and spoken to internal and external customers • Able to work with challenging situations and offer support in a calm manner • Able to maintain confidentiality and inform staff and external parties on a need to know basis • Ability to work as part of a team to reach agreed targets and outcomes • Ability to work flexibly

What the school offers its staff

The Inspiration Trust offers all staff a range of benefits via our ‘my lifestyle' portal. All eligible staff will have access to a range of benefits from salary sacrifice schemes and employee discounts.

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

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.
How to apply
If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

About Hethersett Academy

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 16
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1174 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 16
Ofsted report
View Ofsted report

Hethersett Academy is one of East Anglia's top performing schools - recording the highest Progress 8 score in East Anglia in 2017 - and is rated Outstanding by Ofsted in all areas. We are proud of our strong academic approach, without neglecting the richness that comes from experiencing and enjoying sport and culture.

We are a National Teaching School, and part of the Inspiration Trust family of schools, dedicated to ensuring that our young people have the greatest possible opportunities regardless of their background.

Arranging a visit to Hethersett Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@inspirationtrust.org.

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