Dedicated Teaching Assistant

The Downs School, Newbury, Berkshire, RG20 6AD

24 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  7 July 2025 at 8am

• Date listed

  10 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
• Working pattern: Full time, part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: West Berkshire Council salary Band C £24,027 - £24,790 FTE (to be pro-rated accordingly for term-time and hours worked)

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are looking to recruit a talented, motivational, and inspiring individual to provide teachers and the SEN team with practical support. You will work either individually or with small groups of children to promote positive learning and behaviour.

A passion and interest in supporting all children in a school setting is essential. This is an immensely rewarding role in its own right but also provides good experience for anyone considering training as a teacher.

The successful candidate will

•be organised, flexible and reliable, with the ability to work with students in a professional and appropriate way

•be well-motivated and keen to show their enthusiasm for the role

•introduce work to students, set by a subject specialist, and support the students with their learning in the absence of the classroom teacher

• issue (not setting) work, managing behaviour, responding to students' general queries and ensuring students are working to their full potential,

•contribute to the development of the department as part of a dedicated team

•have a professional attitude that is open to innovative ways of working

•be flexible and adaptable when faced with challenges

What the school offers its staff

In return you will

•experience a caring, positive ethos that prioritises staff wellbeing and recognition

•be empowered to work with ambitious, dedicated, capable staff who are deeply committed to develop the whole child

•experience working with children who enjoy being at school, behave exceptionally and have excellent attitudes to learning

•work in a professional, stimulating, and collaborative working environment

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 Downs School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1405 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Downs School website
• Email address: recruitment@thedownsschool.org
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-downs-school

The Downs School, a Foundation, 11-18 comprehensive school, is a successful, oversubscribed and popular school serving the Downs area of West Berkshire. The roll is nearly 1300 with a well-established sixth form. Results at all levels are consistently above national averages and Ofsted described our students as having ‘excellent personal and social skills’ who ‘achieve well academically’.

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