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  • Start date details

    March 2025

  • Closing date

    17 February 2025 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    5 February 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: £22,374 to £23,848 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

Inspiration Trust is committed to safeguarding and all staff appointments are subject to satisfactory references and enhanced DBS checks. You will be required to provide references and undertake an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check.

This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We are an equal opportunities employer.

Applying for the job

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About The Thetford Academy

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 19
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1305 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 19

Thetford Academy is a community secondary school and sixth form, close to the Norfolk-Suffolk border. We help our students get the best possible GCSE results, and guide them through A Levels and vocational studies that prepare them for university and the world of work.

We are part of the Inspiration Trust, a close-knit family of schools in East Anglia, dedicated to providing high-quality education for all of our young people, combining academic attainment with rich cultural experiences.

Arranging a visit to The Thetford Academy

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

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