Level 1 Teaching/Care Assistant

Newby and Scalby Academy, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, YO12 5JA

11 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  3 October 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  22 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Part time: 32.5 hours, Monday to Friday.
• Contract type: Fixed term - 12 months
• Full-time equivalent salary: £25,185 to £25,989 Full Time Equivalent
• Actual salary: Starts at £19,111.81
• Pay scale: Grade C Points 4 to 6

What skills and experience we're looking for

Essential:

• A good standard of written and numeracy skills (A/I/C)
• Experience of supporting a child with additional needs (A/I/R)
• Ability to support the medical and personal care needs of a child (A/I/R)
• Understanding of relevant policies/codes of practice (A/I)
• Understanding classroom roles and responsibilities and your own position within these (A/I)
• Good communication skills both oral and written (A/I/R)
• Ability to build trust with a pupil and their parents/carers (A/I/R)
• Experience of supporting and facilitating pupils learning and progress (A/I/R)
• Ability to use basic technology to support the role (A/I)
• Ability to build positive relationships with all stakeholders (A/I)
• Ability to work constructively as part of a team (A/I/R)

Desirable:
• Completion of DfES Teacher Assistant Induction Programme or equivalent (A/C)
• NVQ Level 2 or appropriate level of experience of operating in the classroom (A/I/C)
• Training in the relevant health care competencies (A/I/C)
• Training to support SEN pupils (A/I/C)
• Ability to use a hoist (A/I/R)
• Working with or caring for children of relevant age (A/I)
• Emergency First Aid or First aid at work qualification (C) Last updated: 13.10.2021
• Previous experience of working with young people preferably in a school setting

(A/I) Key: C – Certificate; A – Application Form; I – Interview; R - Reference

What the school offers its staff

As a Trust, we have developed an extensive range of employee benefits that focus on yourFinancial, Physical and Mental Wellbeing. Here are just a few examples in each area…

Financial Wellbeing:

• Membership to either the Teachers’ Pension Scheme or the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Technology scheme and Vehicle Leasing Scheme*
• Access to an extensive discounts platform

Physical Wellbeing:

24/7 access to an online GPor Advanced Nurse Practitioner for you & your household

• Gym & fitness discounts
• Cycle to Work scheme*
• Free annual flu jab

Mental Wellbeing:

Access to an industry leading Employee Assistance Programme

• Menopause Support Service
• Trained Mental Health First Aiders in all our settings

*Subject to ensuring NMW is maintained

• Holiday Entitlement: minimum 35 days(subject to pro rata if working part time and dependent upon salary and continuous service) including statutory Bank Holidays.

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.

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.

https://getintoteaching.education.gov.uk/non-uk-teachers

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.

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About Newby and Scalby Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 417 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Newby and Scalby Academy website
• Email address: sweets@newbyandscalby.org.uk
• Phone number: 01723 628517
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/newby-and-scalby-primary-school

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