14 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    As soon as possible

  • Closing date

    9 May 2025 at 9am

  • Date listed

    24 April 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Teaching assistant

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Key stage 3, Key stage 4

Working pattern

Full time: 36 hours 40 minutes per week - Term time plus 5 days (195 days)

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£33,366 - £35,235 (full time / full year) Actual salary £28,537 - £30,136 per annum

Additional allowances

SEN - £1,491 per annum

What skills and experience we're looking for

  • Previous experience of planning and delivering learning activities across a range of curriculum subject areas
  • Specific experience/interest in working with pupils with SEND
  • High expectations of young people, and a commitment to raising standards of attainment to ensure that they can achieve their full educational potential
  • Experience of developing options and alternatives that will support children and young people to engage in the learning process
  • Experience of enhancement of pupil progress and raising attainment and achievement in all pupils
  • Experience of current assessment practice and the use of data and pupil progress tracking to ensure that all groups of learners achieve
  • Experience of managing challenging behaviour
  • The emotional and physical resilience necessary when working with challenging young people with a range of complex needs
  • The ability to foster positive relationships with other staff, pupils, parents and the wider community
  • The willingness to be a team player who can work effectively with all members of the school team
  • Be hardworking, organised and proactive in their own professional development.

What the school offers its staff

TOIL scheme, Occupational Pension Scheme, Occupational Sickness Scheme; Healthcare scheme

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

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@newbridgegroup.org

CVs are not accepted.

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Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

About Samuel Laycock School

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 17
School size
228 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 17
Ofsted report
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Arranging a visit to Samuel Laycock School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email gmather@newbridgegroup.org.

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