Dedicated Teaching Assistant
The Downs School, Newbury, Berkshire, RG20 6ADDeadline is tomorrow
Closing date
16 July 2025 at 8am
Date listed
8 July 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: Term-time only. Plus 1 inset day in September
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
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on school website (opens in new tab)About The Downs School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1437 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Downs School website
- Email address
- recruitment@thedownsschool.org
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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