Primary Teaching Assistant - Level 3

Nottingham HOPE Academy, Nottingham, NG5 3AE

23 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  At earliest opportunity

• Closing date

  8 January 2026 at 8am

• Date listed

  16 December 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 1, Key stage 2, Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
• Working pattern: Part time: 15 hours per week, term time only
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: NJC 12-19

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are looking for ‘the right person for a position to change lives’. This role has been created to support children and families in removing barriers to regular education attendance. Nottingham HOPE Academy is a unique alternative educational provision in the City of Nottingham so if you’re interested, a call or visit to learn more about us is strongly encouraged!

We are seeking to appoint a highly motivated, enthusiastic, hardworking and flexible Teaching Assistant to join our team of dedicated staff. You will be an experienced Teaching Assistant who has worked in a specialist education setting, or within a mainstream and have substantial SEND experience.

This role will have a focus on planning and delivering an outreach programme for pupils with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD) who are not attending school for health reasons. The curriculum is delivered in the home, or occasionally at the Children’s Hospital School, on a 1:1 basis. Candidates must have access to a car and business insurance included. Payment of mileage and off-site travel can be claimed for.

Knowledge of SEN is essential, alongside the ability to respond quickly and flexibly to the complex needs of our children and young people. You will be required to ensure the safety of our children and young people, and facilitate their access to learning by responding to individual needs. You will use your excellent interpersonal skills to build trusting relationships with students and their families, and then assess the attainment and progress of our students, in order to help them succeed.

For the right candidate, this role could be combined with the 0.6 Teaching Assistant vacancy that we have advertised to create a full time post.

What the school offers its staff

Wellbeing – Pay – Careers and Training – Annual Leave and Flexibility

Access to free wellbeing support resources including counselling, medical and legal advice and an option to top up to private healthcare via corporate membership of a healthcare plan.

Access to discount schemes for savings with high street retailers, restaurants, activities and lifestyle services

Auto enrolment into a leading pension scheme with Teachers Pension Scheme or Local Government Pension Scheme

Access to extensive and tailored career pathways, CPD programmes, training and coaching giving you the opportunity to grow and develop your career

An Induction package to help you settle in and approach your role with confidence and enthusiasm

The ability to contribute to and share quality practice with other professional TAs, Teachers and the wider team

Internal opportunities across the Trust academies and to work with specialised leaders in education on nationally recognised projects

Flexible working policies

Cycle to Work Scheme

Annual leave increases based on length of service plus bank holidays for support staff

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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About Nottingham HOPE Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 5 to 16
• School size: No information available
• Age range: 5 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Email address: hope.hr@nexusmat.org
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/nottingham-hope-academy

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