Specialist Teaching Assistant (Level 2)
St Peter's Catholic College, Middlesbrough, TS6 6SP16 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
30 June 2025 at 9am
Date listed
13 June 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: 37 hours per week, Term Time Only plus 1 week
Contract type
- Fixed term - 31st August 2026
Full-time equivalent salary
- £25,183 - £25,584 pro rata
Pay scale
- £21,758 - £22,105 (actual salary)
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking to recruit two enthusiastic and caring Specialist Teaching Assistants who can support the teaching and learning of all our pupils as well as the expertise to support pupils on a 1:1 basis who have an Education Health Care Plan.
The successful candidates will:
Promote our friendly Catholic ethos
Have excellent standards of literacy, numeracy and spoken English
Demonstrate excellent behaviour management and communication skills to support students with different needs and abilities and have high expectations of learning and behaviour for all
To work under the instruction/guidance of teaching/senior staff to undertake work/care/support programmes, to enable access to learning for pupils and to assist the teacher in the management of pupils and the classroom. Work may be carried out in the classroom or outside the main teaching area.
The job is carried out using specialist skills, knowledge and equipment within a special context, working with children with substantial additional challenges which may be learning, physical, emotional or behavioural.
What the school offers its staff
Catholic schools are welcoming places to pupils and members of staff from all faiths and none. More than a quarter of a million pupils and almost half of teachers in Catholic schools are not of the Catholic Faith.
St Peter’s Catholic College is part of Nicholas Postgate Catholic Academy Trust, a family of 32 primary schools, and 6 secondary schools. With more than 12,300 pupils and 1,500 plus staff, the Trust is now one of the largest Catholic Multi Academy Trust in the UK.
We offer:
Happy and enthusiastic students, who are eager to learn and to benefit from an enriched, extended curriculum
Hard working and dedicated colleagues
Good professional development opportunities
Supportive governors and parents who want the very best for our school
Additional benefits include access to:
Vivup - Lifestyle savings - store discounts
Vivup - Discounted gym membership
Vivup - Cycle scheme
Full wellbeing package
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
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About St Peter's Catholic College
- School type
- Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 555 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- St Peter's Catholic College website
- Email address
- enquiries@stpeters.npcat.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01642 453462
Arranging a visit to St Peter's Catholic College
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email enquiries@stpeters.npcat.org.uk.
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