Study Support Manager
Barton Junior School, Dover, Kent, CT16 2ND7 days remaining to apply
Start date details
TBC
Closing date
13 February 2026 at 9am
Date listed
4 February 2026
Job details
Job role
- HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 32.5 hours per week, 8:30am - 3:30pm Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Actual salary
- Kent Scheme C (Top) £20,107.14 (£26,262 FTE)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Barton Junior School is seeking an experienced, motivated, and proactive Study Support Manager to join our passionate and dedicated staff team. At Barton Junior School, we pride ourselves on offering a happy, purposeful, and rewarding working environment where staff and pupils share warm, respectful relationships. We place a strong emphasis on professional development and staff wellbeing at all levels, ensuring every member of our team feels valued and supported.
This role is particularly focused on providing high quality academic and pastoral support for our Year 6 pupils, ensuring they are fully prepared, emotionally and academically, for the move to secondary school. As such, this position would suit an individual with proven experience working with pupils particularly from upper Key Stage 2, and who is confident in delivering targeted academic support, managing small groups, and responding effectively to the needs of pupils preparing for SATs and moving into secondary school.
This role is for 32.5 hours per week, working 8:30am -3:30pm Monday - Friday.
Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the role and the skills required.
What the school offers its staff
Samphire Star Education Trust is a family of schools which serve the south of Kent community and beyond. It comprises Astor Secondary School, Barton Junior School, Shatterlocks Infant and Nursery School, White Cliffs Primary and Nursery School. We have a well-established reputation for offering our pupils a safe and caring environment in which they can be happy and thrive as they learn. Ideas and opportunities are explored with enthusiasm through a broad and balanced curriculum throughout the Trust. All young people in our community, from the youngest to the oldest, are encouraged and supported to be the very best versions of themselves possible.
Trustees prioritise the safety and wellbeing of our staff and students. At all levels, individuals have the opportunity to extend their interests and develop their talents through collaboration and celebration within strong and imaginative teams.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students. You are advised that this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and therefore this post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). Please be aware that schools are also required to undertake online recruitment checks on shortlisted candidates under changes to Keeping Children Safe in Legislation.
Applying for the job
This job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Barton Junior School
- School type
- Academy, ages 7 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- School size
- 216 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 7 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Barton Junior School website
- Email address
- luke.meades@samphirestar.com
At Barton Junior School we inspire, motivate and challenge pupils, establishing a safe and stimulating environment, rooted in mutual respect. We set goals that stretch and challenge children of all backgrounds and abilities and demonstrate consistently the positive attitudes, values and behaviour which we expect.
We are very proud of our school and provide children with an excellent continuation of their education. Our aim is for every child to reach their full potential. We do this through a stimulating and caring environment that provides challenges and enjoyment, where children’s natural curiosity and wonder about the world around them is encouraged, where children will thrive.
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