Personal Care and Teaching Assistant

Colonel Frank Seely Academy, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG14 6JZ

39 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2026

• Closing date

  31 August 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  23 July 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
• Working pattern: Part time: 32.5 hours per week - Term Time Only
• Contract type: Fixed term - 1 Year
• Actual salary: £22,094 - £23,923 per annum

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are looking for a suitably qualified and enthusiastic Personal Care and Teaching Assistant to join our established learning support team. Experience in working with students with a wide range of SEND and a desire to work with young people in supporting their welfare and wellbeing is essential.

What the school offers its staff

The Learning Support department at Colonel Frank Seely Academy is managed by the SENDCo with support from a team of Teaching Assistants who are supportive, caring and passionate. We are looking to appoint a Personal Care and Teaching Assistant to further enrich the team. We are looking for someone who is kind, dedicated and hard working from any educational background and any key stage that wishes to progress to a secondary environment within SEND. There is a pathway for progression within this role and CPD to support within it. The role is primarily to facilitate greater inclusion and remove barriers for students with identified or moving towards being identified as requiring SEN support.

Benefits

• Access to Local Government Pension Scheme
• Generous annual leave entitlement increasing with service, plus statutory holidays
• The opportunity to be part of a highly supportive and ambitious team/school
• Recognised continuous local government service for annual leave entitlement, Occupational Maternity/ Paternity pay
• Cycle to work Scheme
• Commitment to employee Health and Wellbeing including Employee Assistance Programme
• Employee benefits platform

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

As Redhill Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding children practices, any appointment will be subject to an enhanced DBS and Child barred list checks, candidate online search and successful references.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

Additional documents

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

Personal Care and Teaching Assistant JD PS APR26.docx - 424 KB (opens in new tab)

About Colonel Frank Seely Academy

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 895 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Colonel Frank Seely Academy website
• Email address: HR@Redhillacademytrust.org.uk
• Phone number: 0115 9652 495
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/colonel-frank-seely-academy

Colonel Frank Seely Academy is part of Redhill Academy Trust. The Academy is also a member of Redhill College of Leadership and Development and as such there are excellent CPD opportunities and a chance to work alongside colleagues from other high-performing schools in the region. The Trust also leads the regional Teaching School Hub, delivering local teacher training and the National Professional Qualifications for teachers.

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