Education Coach (Teaching Assistant)
Winterhill School, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S61 2BDThis job expired on 4 July 2025 – see similar jobs
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
Further information about the job
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.
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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
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Winterhill School website
- Email address
- jparkin@winterhill.org.uk
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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