LEVEL 3 TEACHING ASSISTANT POST – 50% OUTREACH-50% BASED IN SCHOOL
Archdale School, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S2 1PL13 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2026
Closing date
6 July 2026 at 9am
Date listed
23 June 2026
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Part time: Monday to Friday 8.35am to 3.35pm (Wednesday finish 4.05pm)
Contract type
- Fixed term - ENDING 31ST AUGUST 2027
Full-time equivalent salary
- £29,064 to £32,597 pro rata - £15.06 to £16.90 per hour
What skills and experience we're looking for
LEVEL 3 TEACHING ASSISTANT POST – 50% HOME LEARNING/50% BASED IN SCHOOL
FIXED TERM – 1st September 2026 TO 31st August 2027
Monday to Friday 8.35am to 3.35pm
£29,064 to £32,597 pro rata - £15.06 to £16.90 per hour
£22,662 to £25,569 Pay reward pending
55p per mile for travelling from school to child’s home (must have own transport with business insurance)
Teaching Assistant Level 3 – Unique Outreach and School-Based Role
Are you looking for a rewarding new challenge? Do you have a positive, proactive attitude and a commitment to helping children achieve their full potential? If so, we would love to hear from you.
We have an exciting and unique opportunity to support a child with complex medical needs who is currently unable to access school. This role will involve working approximately 50% of the time in the child's home environment (including travel) and 50% within school.
Your initial focus will be to provide personalised support and learning opportunities at home, with the long-term aim of helping the child successfully transition into school and access the excellent facilities and opportunities available at Archdale School.
- Are you calm and patient?
- Are you passionate about working with children who have learning difficulties and autism?
- Are you committed to supporting children’s needs when their behaviour challenges us?
- Do you want to make a real difference to the lives of children and their families?
- Do you want to work in a school where ‘pupils come first’ and are taught and cared for as the individuals they are?
- Do you have high standards and expectations?
If you answered yes to the above questions, then you might be the teaching assistant we are looking for and we might be the right school for you.
What the school offers its staff
- Wonderful children who we learn from every day
- Supportive parents who have a strong sense of community
- A professional, committed and friendly staff team
- A strong positive ethos and a school where everyone is valued and treated with respect
- The opportunity to undertake a range of professional development opportunities
- An employee assistance programme and wellbeing committee
- A committed and dedicated leadership team and Governing Body
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 job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Archdale School
- School type
- Special school, ages 3 to 11
- School size
- 96 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Archdale School website
- Email address
- recruitment@archdale.sheffield.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 0114 272 6165
Situated in the east of Sheffield but serving a city-wide catchment, Archdale is a designated school for children with special educational needs. We deliver a broad and bespoke curriculum for children between the ages of three and eleven with profound and multiple learning difficulties, severe learning difficulties, complex medical needs and autism.
The right candidate will not only have previous experience of working with SEND children (whether in a special or mainstream setting), but ambitious aspirations for all our pupils and the ability to motivate and inspire every child to reach their full potential.
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