Level 3 Teaching Assistant

Kinver High School and Sixth Form, Stourbridge, West Midlands, DY7 6AA

20 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2026

• Closing date

  6 September 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  17 August 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £20,635 - £22,491 (pay award pending)

Level 3 Teaching Assistant job summary

External Advert – Kinver High School

Vacancy:                   Level 3 Teaching Assistant

Start date:               September 2026

Contract details:      Permanent, Part Time

                                   33.5 Hours Per Week

                                   Term Time Only

Salary details:         Grade 5, SCP 7-11

FTE: £26,403 - £28,142 (pay award pending)

Actual Annual Salary: £20,635 - £22,491 (pay award pending)

Kinver High School is seeking an enthusiastic, skilled and dedicated Level 3 Teaching Assistant to join our supportive and ambitious team.

This is an exciting opportunity to make a meaningful difference to students' learning, wellbeing and personal development within a supportive and ambitious school community.

As a Level 3 Teaching Assistant, you will work closely with teaching staff to support individual students and small groups, delivering tailored learning and pastoral support. Working primarily within our Thrive Centre, you will build positive relationships with students who require additional nurture, structure and personalised approaches to learning, helping them develop confidence, resilience and independence. You will contribute to planning, deliver targeted interventions and help create an inclusive environment where every student can thrive. Staff may also be required to work across the wider school to support learning and intervention provision when needed.

The successful candidate will possess the expertise to inspire and engage students and will be determined to get the best from our diverse cohort of students, ensuring they make their very best progress.

Applications are welcomed from talented and aspirant individuals who genuinely enjoy helping to improve students’ achievement and attainment. We are ambitious for our students and take great pride in being a positive and supportive learning community.

Kinver High School offers excellent professional development opportunities, both in school and as part of the Trust, and a positive environment within which to help drive your career forward.

If you feel that you have energy, drive and determination to succeed in this post, we strongly encourage you to visit us and see for yourself the fantastic opportunities we can provide.

We will offer you;

An experienced and supportive team

Considerable opportunities for career development

Excellent facilities and a positive environment

A comprehensive Induction Package

We are sure that once you visit us and meet our students, you’ll find we are the school for you and your career journey, our CPD through school and in partnership with Invictus is exemplary.

We want the very best staff for our students and look forward finding out if you are that person. We would strongly encourage you to get in touch.

Please contact Tyler Brooks, HR Support Officer tbrooks@invictus.education to request further details.

We do reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

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In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2025, and as part of our recruitment process, the Trust will carry out an online search on all shortlisted candidates. This is to help identify any incidents or concerns that are publicly available which may pose a safeguarding risk or bring the Trust into disrepute. Any such findings will be shared with the recruitment manager and may be discussed at interview.

 

We are deeply committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All required pre-employment checks will be undertaken, and offers of employment are subject to satisfactory outcomes. These include an enhanced DBS check with Children’s Barred List information, identity checks, online checks, and verification of professional qualifications and references. Further details are available in Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) 2025.

 

This role involves regulated activity and is therefore subject to:

·       An Enhanced DBS Check including the Children’s Barred List

·       Verification through the DfE’s Check a Teacher’s Record (for applicable roles)

 

It is a criminal offence to apply for this role if you are barred from working with children.

 

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, as amended). Certain convictions or cautions are considered ‘protected’ and need not be disclosed. Guidance on disclosure is available on the Ministry of Justice website: Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974

 

For information on the filtering of cautions and convictions, visit the DBS Filtering Guidance: DBS Filtering Guidance

 

As a Trust, we are committed to ensuring that during all stages of recruitment and selection, no applicant is disadvantaged or discriminated against based on any protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010.

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

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.

About Kinver High School and Sixth Form

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 801 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Kinver High School and Sixth Form website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/kinver-high-school-and-sixth-form

We are a highly successful and increasingly popular oversubscribed 11-18 comprehensive school of around 740 students, situated in the picturesque village location of Kinver on the western fringe of the West Midlands. The school has undergone rapid growth in recent years due to its popularity, moving form a 4-form entry in Year 7 to 6-form entry. The school operates its own designated school coach transport service, which means that our intake spans 5 local authorities and our parents and students choose to come to us, making Kinver the non-selective ‘selective’ school.

We are sure that once you visit us and meet our students, you’ll find that we are the school for you and your career journey, our CPD through school and in partnership with Invictus is exemplary.

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