Enabling Education Support Worker
Westbourne Academy, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1 5JN17 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
12 September 2025 at 10am
Date listed
26 August 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £22,714.00 - £24,619.00 Annually (Actual) NJC Salary Scale 9 - 4 (pending pay award)
Enabling Education Support Worker job summary
Enabling Education Support Worker
- NJC Point 9 - 14
- £22,714 - £24,619 actual per annum
- Term time only (39 weeks per year), 37 hours per week
Westbourne Academy are searching for the best education professionals to join our trust. Are you passionate about making a difference to our children’s learning? Do you understand the importance of education?
Westbourne Academy are looking to appoint an enthusiastic, engaging and committed individual to fill the post of Enabling Education Support Worker. The successful candidate must demonstrate a proactive interest in education and a desire to support the school in achieving the best possible outcomes for all students.
The purpose of this role is to provide on call support to all staff in order to help students overcome barriers to learning and promote achievement for all students. This will include encouraging students to attend lessons on time, contribute to the general safety and discipline of the school and to support the seclusion and removal rooms, acting as a mentor to students accessing restorative programmes as directed.
The ideal candidate will have a good basic level of education to GCSE level (to include English and Maths grade 4/C or above) and have experience of working with young people of secondary schooling. Demonstrable experience in handling challenging behaviour and working successfully with young people are essential. You will be an ambitious professional and will join an academy which is dynamic and inspiring, creating a culture of outstanding success amongst our students.
For further information, please see the application pack for the role.
We welcome applications from candidates with the ability to work on their own initiative with previous experience in a similar environment who are keen to make a difference.
If you have what it takes, you can join an experienced, innovative team with incredible potential - and look forward to a future that could take you anywhere within the Trust’s Twenty-Two schools.
About us: -
Westbourne Academy in Ipswich isn’t just a school - it’s a microcosm of the world with students from all around the globe. Between them they speak 50 languages, and their unique perspectives on learning and life make this a very special academy.
We welcome fresh ideas from all our staff and actively value their creativity and imagination. We are passionate about improving our practice, and we are always keen to find new ways to do things.
About Academy Transformation Trust
We are proud to be a part of the Academy Transformation Trust family of academies whose mission is to transform the learning, aspirations and opportunities for their pupils and the communities in which they live. This commitment also extends to staff who are key to their success.
What’s in it for you?
Access to continuous personal development programs. A bespoke platform supporting colleague welfare and benefits, including pension scheme, employee assistance program (EAP), recognition and reward scheme, cycle to work scheme and discounts on many major high street brands.
Are you ready to make a difference and join our journey? If you wish to apply for the role of Assistant Head of Year, please complete an online application form.
Westbourne Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful applicant will undertake an enhanced DBS criminal record check, and online searches will be carried out in line with KCSIE update 2025. We are committed to Diversity, Equality and Inclusion and welcome all applications. We are open to Flexible Working.
Closing date: 09.00am, Friday 12 September 2025
Interview date: To be confirmed
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Westbourne Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.
The successful applicant will undertake an enhanced DBS criminal record check, and online searches will be carried out in line with KCSIE update 2024. We are committed to Diversity, Equality and Inclusion and welcome all applications. We are open to Flexible Working.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Westbourne Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1038 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Westbourne Academy website
Westbourne Academy is a calm and happy school. We are an inclusive academy. We support all students, regardless of their starting point, to achieve their potential and develop the skills necessary for employment and life.
Westbourne Academy is not just a school it is a microcosm of the world with students and staff from all around the globe. Between them, they speak 32 languages and their differing perspectives on learning and life makes this a unique academy. We also have the pleasure of 30% of our students speaking English as an additional language and value the cultural diversity they bring.
We try not to take ourselves too seriously but know that preparing young people for the adult world is an important undertaking. Since opening as an academy on 1 February 2013, attitudes, aspirations and expectations have been transformed. We believe that our circumstances are quite unique and, therefore, that we can make a massive difference to the students we serve.
Currently we have around 1000+ students. Many of our students do not have the easiest backgrounds and we are determined to ensure that we remove as many barriers to learning as possible. Around 30% of our students come from a disadvantaged background. We are delighted that Ipswich has been deemed an opportunity area for the Department for Education and look forward to taking an active part in this initiative to tackle disadvantage.
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