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Senior Teaching Assistant

Lord Williams's School, Thame, Oxfordshire, OX9 2AQ

This job expired on 9 July 2025 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  9 July 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  2 July 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subjects: Teaching Assistant, Learning Support Assistant
• Working pattern: Part time, full time (Can be done as a job share)
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £28,163.00 - £30,060.00 Annually (FTE) Actual salary of £19,356 based on 30 hours per week, term time only

Senior Teaching Assistant job summary

Support for students

Use specialist skills/training/experience to support students in a range of settings (Learning Support,

Compass, mainstream classrooms)

Assist with the development and implementation of SEND support plans

Deliver agreed interventions to small groups of students as directed by the Line Manager

Establish productive working relationships with students, acting as a role model and setting high

expectations

Promote the inclusion and acceptance of all students within the classroom

Support students consistently whilst recognising and responding to their individual SEND needs

Encourage students to interact and work co-operatively with others to engage all students in activities

Promote independence and employ strategies to recognise and reward achievement of self-reliance

Provide feedback to students in relation to progress and achievement

Liaise and work closely with the Exams department to ensure that SEND students get appropriate support in line with access arrangements for examinations.

Supporting the Line Manager

Work with the Line Manager to establish an appropriate learning environment

Monitor and evaluate students’ responses to learning activities through observation and planned recording of achievement against pre-determined learning objectives

Provide objective and accurate feedback and reports as required to the Line Manager on student achievement, progress and other matters, ensuring the availability of appropriate evidence

Be responsible for keeping and updating records as agreed with the Line Manager, contributing to reviews of systems/records as requested

Undertake marking of students’ work and accurately record achievement/progress

Promote positive values, attitudes and good student behaviour, dealing promptly with conflict and incidents in line with established policy and encourage students to take responsibility for their own behaviour

Liaise sensitively and effectively with parents/carers as agreed with the Line Manager within your role/responsibility and participate in feedback sessions/meetings where appropriate

Administer and assess routine tests and invigilate exams/tests

Provide general clerical/administration support e.g. administer coursework, produce worksheets for agreed activities etc

Support for the curriculum

Implement agreed learning activities/teaching programmes, adjusting activities according to student responses/needs

Implement local and national learning strategies e.g. literacy, numeracy, and make effective use of opportunities provided by other learning activities to support the development of relevant skills

Support the use of ICT in learning activities and develop students’ competence and independence in its use

Help students to access learning activities through specialist support

Determine the need for, prepare and maintain general and specialist equipment and resources

Lesson planning, evaluating and adjusting lessons/work plans as appropriate

Liaise with KS 4 Co-ordinator and members of faculties re: students’ progress and supply of work

Support for the school

Be aware of and comply with policies and procedures relating to child protection, health, safety and security, confidentiality and data protection, reporting all concerns to an appropriate person

Be aware of and support difference and ensure all students have equal access to opportunities to learn and develop

Contribute to the overall ethos/work/aims of the school

Establish constructive relationships and communicate with other agencies/professionals, in liaison with the Line Manager, to support achievement and progress of students

Attend and participate in regular meetings

Participate in training and other learning activities as required

Recognise own strengths and areas of expertise and use these to advise and support others

Provide appropriate guidance and supervision and assist in the training and development of staff as appropriate

Supervise students on visits, trips and out of school activities as required

General administration related to the remit of the Learning Support Faculty

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

Lord Williams’s School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks.

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About Lord Williams's School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 2290 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Lord Williams's School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/lord-williams-s-school

Lord Williams’s School is a thriving and popular comprehensive school serving the Thame community and its surrounding rural area. We are a split-site school, with Years 7 – 9 on the Lower School site at Towersey Road and Years 10 – 13 on the Upper School site at Oxford Road. We pay particular attention to each individual student by promoting their personal, social and educational development to enable all to achieve at the highest level possible. As a result of our continuing success, Lord Williams’s School is consistently oversubscribed.

We promote high quality teaching and learning. We attract talented, committed and conscientious teachers who produce stimulating and challenging learning activities helped by experienced support staff. Teamwork is a key feature of our work.

We are an inclusive school; we cater for all abilities and we provide access for all students. This is reflected in our work with the more able, with students with a range of learning and other difficulties and in our admissions policy for the Sixth Form.

The school has excellent teaching facilities on both sites with accommodation that is suited to the demands of the curriculum.

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