Graduate Programme Teaching Assistant

Cheltenham Bournside School and Sixth Form Centre, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL51 3EF

24 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  6 June 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  9 May 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
• Working pattern: Part time: 30.5 hours per week, 39 weeks per year (term time plus 1 week)
• Contract type: Fixed term - until 31st August 2026
• Actual salary: Actual Salary: £17,264 - £18,388 annual gross pro rata (Based on Grades E4-8) (Pay award pending)

What skills and experience we're looking for

Qualifications:

Essential

• Degree in relevant subject
• Excellent literacy and numeracy skills (minimum of grade C/4 at GCSE or equivalent) in both English Language and Maths
  
  Desirable
• Subject knowledge and a desire to support within English, Maths or Science

Experience:

Essential

• Ability to self-evaluate learning needs and actively seek learning opportunities
• Ability to relate well to children and adults
• Work constructively as part of a team
• Shows a personal commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and rights of young people.
• Excellent interpersonal skills both in working relationship with young students and in forming effective professional relationships
• Enthusiasm, drive and love for the job
• Committed to high personal standards at all times
• Ability to form and maintain appropriate relationships and personal boundaries with children and young people

Desirable

• Experience of working within an educational setting
• Experience of work within specific areas of SEND
• Adaption of ICT equipment to specific student needs
• Understanding of child development
• Working knowledge of national curriculum and other relevant learning programmes

What the school offers its staff

Lifestyle and wellbeing

• Salary sacrifice electric car leasing scheme
• Four electric car charging points
• Family-friendly policies
• Attractive salary and pension
• Generous annual leave entitlement/term time only working options
• Free one-to-one wellbeing support
• Onsite parking facilities and cycle storage
• Free/discounted access to the school’s onsite
• Gym (conditions apply)
• Cycle to work scheme
• Techscheme – save money on the latest tech from Apple and Currys PC World
• Blue Light Card - Discount Scheme
• Staff social events
• Onsite catering (8.00am - 1.30pm daily)

Statutory and other benefits

• The full range of statutory benefits including sick pay, maternity, parental, and adoption leave
• Enhanced Paternity Leave Policy
• We will honour your continuity of service in other state-funded schools in relation to sick pay and pension rights.
• Provision of all necessary IT equipment.

Commitment to safeguarding

We are an equal opportunities employer and value and respect diversity across our whole school community. Bournside is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All posts are subject to an enhanced DBS check.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

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Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Cheltenham Bournside School and Sixth Form Centre

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1828 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Cheltenham Bournside School and Sixth Form Centre website
• Email address: recruitment@bournside.com
• Phone number: 01242235555
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/cheltenham-bournside-school-and-sixth-form-centre-cheltenham

Bournside is the largest comprehensive 11-18 school in Gloucestershire. We are an established single academy trust with a good reputation (Ofsted ‘Good’ rating 2022), wide catchment, and a strong presence in the community. Our school is consistently oversubscribed with a PAN of 300, and most of our students choose to stay with us for their
post-16 study.

Bournside is a mixed, non-denominational academy school for students aged 11 to 18. It is located in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. It settled in its current location of Warden Hill in the early part of the 1970s and converted to academy status in 2011.

Arranging a visit to Cheltenham Bournside School and Sixth Form Centre

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@bournside.com.

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