Senior Teaching Assistant

Djanogly Strelley Academy, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG8 6JZ

16 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  2 June 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  15 May 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time, part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £27,730.00 - £29,711.00 Annually (Actual) Salary based on TTO (39 weeks) FTE £31622 -£33882

Senior Teaching Assistant job summary

This new and exciting role will involve working with a group of children, delivering learning objectives, completing assessments and observations and meeting with parents. We need an experienced, ambitious driven candidate who has a passion to work with children with SEN needs and holds a minimum Level 3 Teaching Assistant qualification or equivalent.

Everyone who visits our academy comments on the calm atmosphere, the enthusiasm our children have for learning and the great sense of team amongst staff and children alike. In our Trust we value every individual and put our children at the heart of everything we do.

Acorns is a purpose-built focused provision unit for children with autism aged 5-11. Our provision offers a calm and enriching environment for all children and we are looking for enthusiastic and compassionate educators to join our growing team.

What we can offer you:

• A culture of trust, where all contributions are recognised and respected
• A skilled senior leadership team with a strong ethos of mutual support and challenge
• Children who engage well and want to learn
• An embedded whole trust commitment to professional development
• A skilled and experienced central service team who proactively support our academies, enabling educationalists to focus on our core purpose – teaching and learning
• A real commitment to work-life balance – we remember we are human beings first and educators second
• Great Trust benefits including free parking, company paid healthcare, cashback on medical, optical, and holistic therapy costs, shop &travel discounts and excellent training and development opportunities

Visits to the academy are encouraged! If you wish to arrange a visit, discover more about this exciting opportunity, need any further information or you would like to have an informal discussion, please contact us to arrange a convenient date

For further details about the Academy and Djanogly Learning Trust, please view our careers pages on MyNewTerm

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

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About Djanogly Strelley Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 399 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Djanogly Strelley Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/djanogly-strelley-academy

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