Learning & Progress
First Base Bury St Edmunds, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP32 7PJ18 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
25 October 2025 at 12:59am
Date listed
7 October 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time, full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £27,115.00 - £29,957.00 Annually (FTE)
Learning & Progress job summary
37 hpw, 39 weeks per year. 8.30am - 4.30pm, Monday - Friday
We are looking to recruit in our Key Stage 1 provisions to support the developing provision and widening reach.
You will be based at First Base Bury St Edmunds Academy or First Base Ipswich Academy and may be required to work across the Raedwald Trust settings. The academies provide education for young learners who are unable to access mainstream education for medical or behavioural reasons.
As part of the ongoing development of our service, we are seeking Learning and Progress Support workers with a strong commitment to social inclusion and improving learning outcomes for vulnerable children. We can offer you the opportunity to be part of a highly effective learning team and continued professional development.
Learning and Progress post holders work within an agreed system of supervision to support the education of children and young people at the Raedwald Trust.
You will:
- provide high quality classroom support
- be confident and professional to deliver outreach support in mainstream settings
- contribute effectively to planning and preparation of learning activities and resources as required
- have relevant experience or experience within a mainstream setting
- be able to demonstrate effective behaviour management strategies
- be a good team player
- demonstrate a positive attitude towards all stakeholders
- be flexible, resilient and calm under pressure
- have the ability to build positive working relationships with young people
- have GCSE English and mathematics at Level C or above (or equivalent).
As part of the Raedwald Trust Team, you will support pupils in-centre during the school day, communicate with families and outside agencies, and enable inclusion within community schools via advisory role during any outreach.
Access to personal transport is essential.
Visits from potential applicants are welcomed. Please contact Laura Leeder, Trust PA.
Further information about the job
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 will not be accepted for this application.
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- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 8
- School size
- 0 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 8
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- First Base Bury St Edmunds website
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