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LEVEL 3 TEACHING ASSISTANT POST – 50% OUTREACH-50% BASED IN SCHOOL

Archdale School, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S2 1PL

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• Job start date

  1 September 2026

• Closing date

  10 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

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.

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Additional documents

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TA Level 3 - Recruitment Pack.docx - 92.8 KB (opens in new tab)

About Archdale School

• Organisation type: Special school, ages 3 to 11
• Size: 99 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Archdale School website
• Email address: recruitment@archdale.sheffield.sch.uk
• Phone number: 0114 272 6165
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/archdale-school

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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