15 days remaining to apply

  • Job start date

    1 September 2025

  • Closing date

    4 July 2025 at 3pm

  • Date listed

    16 June 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Teaching assistant

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Key stage 3, Key stage 4

Working pattern

Part time: 32.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 08:30 – 15:30, term time – 192 days (to include 2 professional learning days)

Contract type

Permanent

Actual salary

Band D, point 5-6 Actual salary £19,566 - £19,876

What skills and experience we're looking for

To support individual/identified students, or supporting groups of students within different lessons. The key purpose of the role is to help students develop their academic, social and emotional skills in order to fully access and be successful within the school’s curriculum and wider activities.

The successful candidate will:

  • Have a strong academic background or alternatively a strong track record of working with young people or secondary school children.
  • An engaging and positive individual who is able to interact with children with SEN/Social Emotional Mental Health needs.
  • Have the ability to provide support to children who have varying learning abilities.
  • Have the ability to think on your feet, good negotiation skills are imperative in this role.

Excellent standards of behaviour, respect and learning depend upon the 'tone' set by all members of the Trust community. We build upon our strengths – together!

For the purposes of this Job Description and Person Specification, Trust is Inspire Trust and all Academies working within the Trust. All duties outlined below are the responsibility of the post holder who will be accountable for delivery. Where there is specific connectivity with another post, or the lead responsibility for an activity lies with another member of staff, this is stated and will be expanded on in the Service Framework and Development plan where appropriate.

What the school offers its staff

  • Employee Assistance programme
  • Accredited living wage
  • Specsavers Eye Care voucher
  • Cycle to Work Scheme
  • Gym and Exercise classes
  • Employee Referral Scheme
  • Free Parking
  • Flu Jabs
  • Evening Language Classes
  • Support Staff Holiday Entitlement
  • Onboarding for New Starters
  • Sports facility Hire
  • Urban Yoga
  • Westfield Health Scheme

Commitment to safeguarding

At Winterhill, we take our moral and statutory responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of our students, very seriously.
Our ethos is clear, and we work tirelessly to give our students an environment where everyone feels safe and are respected, valued and fully supported.
It is also the responsibility of all adults to safeguard our young people, backed up by regular safeguarding CPD.

Lead by our safeguarding team, we work together to uphold our safe environment, identify any concerns early, and share information to ensure well-informed and timely actions can be taken when required.

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.

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About Winterhill School

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 16
Education phase
Secondary
School size
928 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 16
Ofsted report
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Winterhill school is a forward thinking, multi-cultural school committed to an inclusive education where ‘everyone succeeds’. The school has fantastic facilities, a dedicated staff team with a family ethos and strong support from the community it serves.

Arranging a visit to Winterhill School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email jparkin@winterhill.org.uk.

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