10 days remaining to apply

  • Job start date

    5 January 2026

  • Closing date

    31 October 2025 at 9am

  • Date listed

    30 September 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

Full time: Permanent, Full Time, Term Time Only.

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

From £21,322 - £22,005 per annum

What skills and experience we're looking for

SUPPORT FOR THE STUDENT

  • Support and direct activities with either individuals or groups of students to ensure their safety and facilitate their physical, emotional and cognitive development
  • Contribute to the health and well-being of students
  • Establish and maintain good working relationships with individual students and groups
  • Promote and reinforce the students’ self-esteem and independence e.g. support in form time, unstructured time etc.
  • Encourage acceptance and inclusion of all students
  • To support groups of students as directed during formal public or internal school examinations
  • To assist students on work placements, educational visits, residential, and recreational activities as appropriate
  • To assist students with self-organisation and in the completion of homework tasks, in allocated periods during the school day
  • Drawing on knowledge of various forms of individual needs, to develop an understanding of the specific needs of the students within the school community • To liaise effectively with parents/carers as appropriate
  • To assume responsibility for designated keyworker role at School Action Plus and/or a named EHCP child
  • To assist the other health care assistants in carrying out their role in providing specific assistance to personal care needs of students
  • To ensure that you cover the role of personal care in a colleague’s absence with guidance from the SENCo/ Lead SEND teacher and Level 2 Teaching Assistants
  • To provide care, as and when needed, on off site visits and trips
  • To provide practical and personal assistant to individual pupil needs
  • To assist students with their day to day personal care needs, personal hygiene, toileting and feeding
  • To promote students’ independence skills in relation to personal hygiene, toileting and feeding
  • To monitor the behaviour of students, encouraging positive behaviour and reporting any incidents
  • To ensure the safety and well-being of children, providing support where necessary or signposting concerns to colleagues
  • To liaise with external agencies, where appropriate, talking through therapeutic programmes and discussing programmes
  • To write specific health care plans/Personal Evacuation Plans for key students
  • To be responsible for the recording and distribution of medicines
  • To support students over break and lunch times

SUPPORT THE TEACHER

  • Help with the collation of Review/Annual Review meetings
  • Help with classroom resources and records
  • To implement learning programmes a directed by the class teacher – with individual or small groups
  • To monitor individual student’s needs and provide regular feedback to the teacher
  • Contribute to the management of student behaviour
  • To participate in the evaluation of the support programme
  • To contribute to the maintenance and development of the Learning Support Faculty

SUPPORT FOR THE CURRICULUM

  • Support and reinforce the school curriculum including catch up KS3/GCSE work, literacy, numeracy activities in a 1:1 setting and in the classroom
  • Provide support for learning activities including enrichment activities during the normal school day
  • Support the use and development of ICT within the classroom
  • Support the smooth running of the Faculty by covering designated priority lessons of absent staff as and when required by the SENCo
  • To take responsibility for display and up keep of designated areas in the Faculty

SUPPORT FOR THE SCHOOL

  • Maintain effective working relationships with colleagues and parents
  • Maintain and safeguard the confidential nature of student/teacher/home issues
  • Contribute to the maintenance of student safety and security, including break and lunchtime duties in the Faculty and taxi duties
  • Attend Faculty/Pastoral meetings as appropriate

What the school offers its staff

  • Archway benefits to include shopping discounts and competitions
  • A free and confidential employee assistance programme offering counselling and advice
  • Access to a generous pension scheme
  • Access to discounted travel schemes
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Comprehensive training and support
  • Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
  • Eye care voucher scheme
  • Free flu vaccine
  • Access to e-learning and development

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.
Visas cannot be sponsored.
If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to the satisfactory completion of an enhanced DBS check, Barred List check, the receipt of satisfactory references, online searches and any other statutory checks that are required for the post. We are an equal opportunities employer.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

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About Bluecoat Trent Academy

School type
Free School, ages 11 to 16
Education phase
Secondary
School size
895 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 16
Ofsted report
View Ofsted report
Phone number
0115 900 7245

Bluecoat Trent Academy

The Bluecoat Trent Academy (BTA) opened its doors in September 2021 with the founding cohort of Year 7 pupils. BTA is an 11-16, non-faith school. For the first year BTA accommodates six forms of entry, growing to eight forms in subsequent years.

The new build for the academy will be built on the former site of Clarendon College, on the edge of Forest Fields, close to Mapperley Park. Whilst the new academy is being constructed BTA will, for the first three years, be based in its own building on the site of Bluecoat Aspley Academy on Aspley Lane. The school will be underpinned by the ethos of all the Archway academies whilst establishing its own unique vision and values.

Arranging a visit to Bluecoat Trent Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@archwaytrust.co.uk.

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