18 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    1st September 2025

  • Closing date

    6 July 2025 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    18 June 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Teacher

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Subject

English Additional Language (EAL)

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£25,101.00 - £26,199.00 Annually (FTE) Scale 4, SP7 – 10. Pro-rata salary £25,101 to £26,199 for 35 hours and 39 weeks (based on a full-time equivalent salary of £29,346 - £30,630).

EAL Higher Level Teaching Assistant job summary

This could not be a more exciting time to lead within the St Mark's family. Following our full graded Ofsted inspection in May 2024, St Mark’s CoE Academy achieved an Outstanding judgment in all areas of the framework. During the inspection, “pupils said the school’s values of Love, Hope and Trust are ‘not just words’ but are demonstrated by all members of the community.” Inspectors also reported that “working relationships between staff and pupils are warm, caring and respectful. This means that pupils behave exceptionally well and are very happy and safe (May 2024).”

The EAL department at St Mark’s Academy is vibrant and flourishing. We are looking for a passionate and dedicated EAL HLTA to join our wonderful team, who, ideally, has experience working with EAL students and understands how to motivate and support pupils to reach their potential. We are a very supportive department, who work hard to enable our colleagues to progress further in their careers. The role requires planning, teaching and marking of small group intervention classes.

Teaching and learning here is exceptional and supported by an award winning CPD programme, which you will benefit from and contribute to. Staff use cutting edge research into cognitive science to teach responsively and coach each other weekly through our instructional coaching model.

The impeccable behaviour and attitudes toward learning of our students has also recently been recognised by the Specialist School’s and Academies Trust with the presentation of an award in recognition of our transformational climate for learning. Our students are intelligent, well-mannered and highly-motivated.

​We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and require all staff and volunteers to share and demonstrate this commitment. The successful candidate will have to meet the requirements of the person specification and will be subject to the relevant pre-employment checks which will, where applicable, include a health check, an enhanced DBS check, the Children’s Barred List check and satisfactory references.

It is an offence for an individual who has been disqualified from working with children to knowingly apply for, offer to do, accept, or do any work in a ‘regulated activity’. The position advertised is a ‘regulated activity’.

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

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs are not accepted.

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About St Mark's Church of England Academy

School type
Academy, Church of England, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
880 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
Ofsted report
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School website
St Mark's Church of England Academy website
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St Mark’s Church of England Academy is a 11-18 Academy based in the South London borough of Merton. The Academy is rapidly improving as demonstrated by its rapid increase in GCSE headline figures. The Academy is a community founded on our key values of Trust, Hope and Love and these values permeate our school community.

The Academy is located on the outskirts of London and is well served by Mitcham Eastfields train station which runs regular services towards Central London and Sutton and Wimbledon.

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