42 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    As soon as possible

  • Closing date

    30 January 2026 at 3pm

  • Date listed

    19 December 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: 08:30 - 15:30 (MONDAY TO FRIDAY)

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

Between 23,686 and 32-916

What skills and experience we're looking for

  • Demonstrate an informed and efficient approach to teaching and learning by adopting relevant strategies to support the work of the teacher and increase achievement of all pupils including, where appropriate, those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)
  • Promote, support and facilitate inclusion by encouraging participation of all pupils in learning and extracurricular activities
  • Use effective behaviour management strategies consistently in line with the school’s policy and procedures
  • Support class teachers with maintaining good order and discipline among pupils, managing behaviour effectively to ensure a good and safe learning environment

  • All teachers are required to carry out the duties of a teacher as set out in the current School Teachers Pay And Conditions Document. Teachers should also have due regard to the teacher standards (2012). Teachers’ performance will be assessed against the teacher standards as part of the appraisal process as relevant to their role in the Academy.

    Teaching

    • Deliver the curriculum as relevant to the age and ability group/subject/s that you teach
    • Be responsible for the preparation and development of teaching materials, teaching programmes and pastoral arrangements as appropriate
    • Be accountable for the attainment, progress and outcomes of pupils’ you teach
    Be aware of pupils’ capabilities, their prior knowledge and plan teaching and differentiate appropriately to build on this demonstrating

What the school offers its staff

Teaching and learning

  • Demonstrate an informed and efficient approach to teaching and learning by adopting relevant strategies to support the work of the teacher and increase achievement of all pupils including, where appropriate, those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)
  • Promote, support and facilitate inclusion by encouraging participation of all pupils in learning and extracurricular activities
  • Use effective behaviour management strategies consistently in line with the school’s policy and procedures
  • Support class teachers with maintaining good order and discipline among pupils, managing behaviour effectively to ensure a good and safe learning environment
  • Organise and manage teaching space and resources to help maintain a stimulating and safe learning environment
  • Observe pupil performance and pass observations on to the class teacher
  • Supervise a class if the teacher is temporarily unavailable
  • Use ICT skills to advance pupils’ learning
  • Undertake any other relevant duties given by the class teacher
  • To cover and lead class teaching (under supervision) as and when appropriate
  • Direct the work, where relevant, of other adults in supporting learning

Planning

  • Contribute to effective assessment and planning by supporting the monitoring, recording and reporting of pupil performance and progress as appropriate to the level of the role
  • Read and understand lesson plans shared prior to lessons, if available
  • Prepare the classroom for lessons
  • Use their area(s) of expertise to contribute to the planning and preparation of learning activities, and to plan their role in learning activities
  • Use allocated time to devise clearly structured activities that interest and motivate learners and advance their learning
  • Plan how they will support the inclusion of pupils in the learning activities

Working with colleagues and other relevant professionals

  • Communicate effectively with other staff members and pupils, and with parents and carers under the direction of the class teacher
  • Communicate their knowledge and understanding of pupils to other school staff and education, health and social care professionals, so that informed decision making can take place on intervention and provision
  • With the class teacher, keep other professionals accurately informed of performance and progress or concerns they may have about the pupils they work with
  • Understand their role in order to be able to work collaboratively with classroom teachers and other colleagues, including specialist advisory teachers
  • Collaborate and work with colleagues and other relevant professionals within and beyond the school
  • Develop effective professional relationships with colleagues

Whole-school organisation, strategy and development

  • Contribute to the development, implementation and evaluation of the school’s policies, practices and procedures, so as to support the school’s values and vision
  • Make a positive contribution to the wider life and ethos of the school

Health and safety

  • Promote the safety and wellbeing of pupils, and help to safeguard pupils’ well-being by following the requirements of Keeping Children Safe in Education and our school’s child protection policy
  • Look after children who are upset or have had accidents

Professional development

  • Help keep their own knowledge and understanding relevant and up-to-date by reflecting on their own practice, liaising with school leaders, and identifying relevant professional development to improve personal effectiveness
  • Take opportunities to build the appropriate skills, qualifications, and/or experience needed for the role, with support from the school
  • Take part in the school’s appraisal procedures

Personal and professional conduct

  • Uphold public trust in the education profession and maintain high standards of ethics and behaviour, within and outside school
  • Have proper and professional regard for the ethos, policies and practices of the school, and maintain high standards of attendance and punctuality
  • Demonstrate positive attitudes, values and behaviours to develop and sustain effective relationships with the school community
  • Respect individual differences and cultural diversity

Other areas of responsibility

  • The Senior Learning Coach will work young learners and assist with their learning. They will prepare them for the day and support them during both lesson and break time.
  • The Senior Learning Coach will work with the SENCO to draft an Individual Provision Map (IPM) for learners in their care. This will be drafted according to needs identified by the baseline assessment data.
  • The Senior Learning Coach will also be expected to support the CPA work experience programme & offsite provision including transport, home tutoring and flexible learning projects.

All teachers are required to carry out the duties of a teacher as set out in the current School Teachers Pay And Conditions Document. Teachers should also have due regard to the teacher standards (2012). Teachers’ performance will be assessed against the teacher standards as part of the appraisal process as relevant to their role in the Academy.

Teaching

  • Deliver the curriculum as relevant to the age and ability group/subject/s that you teach
  • Be responsible for the preparation and development of teaching materials, teaching programmes and pastoral arrangements as appropriate
  • Be accountable for the attainment, progress and outcomes of pupils’ you teach
  • Be aware of pupils’ capabilities, their prior knowledge and plan teaching and differentiate appropriately to build on this demonstrating knowledge and understanding of how pupils learn
  • Have a clear understanding of the needs of all pupils, including those with special educational needs; gifted and talented; EAL; disabilities; and be able to use and evaluate distinctive teaching approaches to engage and support them
  • Demonstrate an understanding of and take responsibility for promoting high standards of literacy including the correct use of spoken English (whatever your specialist subject)
  • If teaching early reading, demonstrate a clear understanding of appropriate teaching strategies e.g. systematic synthetic phonics
  • Use an appropriate range of observation, assessment, monitoring and recording strategies as a basis for setting challenging learning objectives for pupils of all backgrounds, abilities and dispositions, monitoring learners’ progress and levels of attainment
  • Make accurate and productive use of assessment to secure pupils’ progress
  • Give pupils regular feedback, both orally and through accurate marking, and encourage pupils to respond to the feedback, reflect on progress, their emerging needs and to take a responsible and conscientious attitude to their own work and study
  • Use relevant data to monitor progress, set targets, and plan subsequent lessons
  • Set homework and plan other out-of-class activities to consolidate and extend the knowledge and understanding pupils have acquired as appropriate
  • Participate in arrangements for examinations and assessments within the remit of the Academy Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document

Behaviour and safety

  • Establish a safe, purposeful and stimulating environment for pupils, rooted in mutual respect and establish a framework for discipline with a range of strategies, using praise, sanctions and rewards consistently and fairly
  • Manage classes effectively, using approaches which are appropriate to pupils’ needs in order to inspire, motivate and challenge pupils
  • Maintain good relationships with pupils, exercise appropriate authority, and act decisively when necessary
  • Be a positive role model and demonstrate consistently the positive attitudes, values and behaviour, which are expected of pupils
  • Have high expectations of behaviour, promoting self control and independence of all learners
  • Carry out playground and other duties as directed and within the remit of the current School Teachers’ Pay And Conditions Document
  • Be responsible for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people within the Academy, raising any concerns following Academy protocol/procedures

Team working and collaboration

  • Participate in any relevant meetings/professional development opportunities at the Academy, which relate to the learners, curriculum or organisation of the Academy including pastoral arrangements and assemblies
  • Work as a team member and identify opportunities for working with colleagues and sharing the development of effective practice with them
  • Contribute to the selection and professional development of other teachers and support staff including the induction and assessment of new teachers, teachers serving induction periods and where appropriate threshold assessments
  • Ensure that colleagues working with you are appropriately involved in supporting learning and understand the roles they are expected to fulfil
  • Take part as required in the review, development and management of the activities relating to the curriculum, organisation and pastoral functions of the Academy
  • Cover for absent colleagues / PPA

Fulfil wider professional responsibilities

  • Work collaboratively with others to develop effective professional relationships
  • Deploy support staff effectively as appropriate
  • Communicate effectively with parents/carers with regard to pupils’ achievements and well-being using Academy systems/processes as appropriate
  • Communicate and co-operate with relevant external bodies
  • Make a positive contribution to the wider life and ethos of the Academy

Administration

  • Register the attendance of and supervise learners, before, during or after school sessions as appropriate
  • Participate in and carry out any administrative and organisational tasks within the remit of the current School Teachers’ Pay And Conditions Document

Professional development

  • Regularly review the effectiveness of your teaching and assessment procedures and its impact on pupils’ progress, attainment and well being, refining your approaches where necessary responding to advice and feedback from colleagues
  • Be responsible for improving your teaching through participating fully in training and development opportunities identified by the Academy or as developed as an outcome of your appraisal
  • Proactively participate with arrangements made in accordance with the appraisal regulations 2012

Other

  • To have professional regard for the ethos, policies and practices of the Academy in which you teach, and maintain high standards in your own attendance and punctuality
  • Perform any reasonable duties as requested by the Executive Principal

  • Applied knowledge and understanding of SEND
  • Ability to teach pupils with autism, utilising autism-specific approaches to ensure successful outcomes would be desirable

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.

Teaching and learning

  • Demonstrate an informed and efficient approach to teaching and learning by adopting relevant strategies to support the work of the teacher and increase achievement of all pupils including, where appropriate, those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)
  • Promote, support and facilitate inclusion by encouraging participation of all pupils in learning and extracurricular activities
  • Use effective behaviour management strategies consistently in line with the school’s policy and procedures
  • Support class teachers with maintaining good order and discipline among pupils, managing behaviour effectively to ensure a good and safe learning environment
  • Organise and manage teaching space and resources to help maintain a stimulating and safe learning environment
  • Observe pupil performance and pass observations on to the class teacher
  • Supervise a class if the teacher is temporarily unavailable
  • Use ICT skills to advance pupils’ learning
  • Undertake any other relevant duties given by the class teacher
  • To cover and lead class teaching (under supervision) as and when appropriate
  • Direct the work, where relevant, of other adults in supporting learning

Planning

  • Contribute to effective assessment and planning by supporting the monitoring, recording and reporting of pupil performance and progress as appropriate to the level of the role
  • Read and understand lesson plans shared prior to lessons, if available
  • Prepare the classroom for lessons
  • Use their area(s) of expertise to contribute to the planning and preparation of learning activities, and to plan their role in learning activities
  • Use allocated time to devise clearly structured activities that interest and motivate learners and advance their learning
  • Plan how they will support the inclusion of pupils in the learning activities

Working with colleagues and other relevant professionals

  • Communicate effectively with other staff members and pupils, and with parents and carers under the direction of the class teacher
  • Communicate their knowledge and understanding of pupils to other school staff and education, health and social care professionals, so that informed decision making can take place on intervention and provision
  • With the class teacher, keep other professionals accurately informed of performance and progress or concerns they may have about the pupils they work with
  • Understand their role in order to be able to work collaboratively with classroom teachers and other colleagues, including specialist advisory teachers
  • Collaborate and work with colleagues and other relevant professionals within and beyond the school
  • Develop effective professional relationships with colleagues

Whole-school organisation, strategy and development

  • Contribute to the development, implementation and evaluation of the school’s policies, practices and procedures, so as to support the school’s values and vision
  • Make a positive contribution to the wider life and ethos of the school

Health and safety

  • Promote the safety and wellbeing of pupils, and help to safeguard pupils’ well-being by following the requirements of Keeping Children Safe in Education and our school’s child protection policy
  • Look after children who are upset or have had accidents

Professional development

  • Help keep their own knowledge and understanding relevant and up-to-date by reflecting on their own practice, liaising with school leaders, and identifying relevant professional development to improve personal effectiveness
  • Take opportunities to build the appropriate skills, qualifications, and/or experience needed for the role, with support from the school
  • Take part in the school’s appraisal procedures

Personal and professional conduct

  • Uphold public trust in the education profession and maintain high standards of ethics and behaviour, within and outside school
  • Have proper and professional regard for the ethos, policies and practices of the school, and maintain high standards of attendance and punctuality
  • Demonstrate positive attitudes, values and behaviours to develop and sustain effective relationships with the school community
  • Respect individual differences and cultural diversity

Other areas of responsibility

  • The Senior Learning Coach will work young learners and assist with their learning. They will prepare them for the day and support them during both lesson and break time.
  • The Senior Learning Coach will work with the SENCO to draft an Individual Provision Map (IPM) for learners in their care. This will be drafted according to needs identified by the baseline assessment data.
  • The Senior Learning Coach will also be expected to support the CPA work experience programme & offsite provision including transport, home tutoring and flexible learning projects.

All teachers are required to carry out the duties of a teacher as set out in the current School Teachers Pay And Conditions Document. Teachers should also have due regard to the teacher standards (2012). Teachers’ performance will be assessed against the teacher standards as part of the appraisal process as relevant to their role in the Academy.

Teaching

  • Deliver the curriculum as relevant to the age and ability group/subject/s that you teach
  • Be responsible for the preparation and development of teaching materials, teaching programmes and pastoral arrangements as appropriate
  • Be accountable for the attainment, progress and outcomes of pupils’ you teach
  • Be aware of pupils’ capabilities, their prior knowledge and plan teaching and differentiate appropriately to build on this demonstrating knowledge and understanding of how pupils learn
  • Have a clear understanding of the needs of all pupils, including those with special educational needs; gifted and talented; EAL; disabilities; and be able to use and evaluate distinctive teaching approaches to engage and support them
  • Demonstrate an understanding of and take responsibility for promoting high standards of literacy including the correct use of spoken English (whatever your specialist subject)
  • If teaching early reading, demonstrate a clear understanding of appropriate teaching strategies e.g. systematic synthetic phonics
  • Use an appropriate range of observation, assessment, monitoring and recording strategies as a basis for setting challenging learning objectives for pupils of all backgrounds, abilities and dispositions, monitoring learners’ progress and levels of attainment
  • Make accurate and productive use of assessment to secure pupils’ progress
  • Give pupils regular feedback, both orally and through accurate marking, and encourage pupils to respond to the feedback, reflect on progress, their emerging needs and to take a responsible and conscientious attitude to their own work and study
  • Use relevant data to monitor progress, set targets, and plan subsequent lessons
  • Set homework and plan other out-of-class activities to consolidate and extend the knowledge and understanding pupils have acquired as appropriate
  • Participate in arrangements for examinations and assessments within the remit of the Academy Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document

Behaviour and safety

  • Establish a safe, purposeful and stimulating environment for pupils, rooted in mutual respect and establish a framework for discipline with a range of strategies, using praise, sanctions and rewards consistently and fairly
  • Manage classes effectively, using approaches which are appropriate to pupils’ needs in order to inspire, motivate and challenge pupils
  • Maintain good relationships with pupils, exercise appropriate authority, and act decisively when necessary
  • Be a positive role model and demonstrate consistently the positive attitudes, values and behaviour, which are expected of pupils
  • Have high expectations of behaviour, promoting self control and independence of all learners
  • Carry out playground and other duties as directed and within the remit of the current School Teachers’ Pay And Conditions Document
  • Be responsible for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people within the Academy, raising any concerns following Academy protocol/procedures

Team working and collaboration

  • Participate in any relevant meetings/professional development opportunities at the Academy, which relate to the learners, curriculum or organisation of the Academy including pastoral arrangements and assemblies
  • Work as a team member and identify opportunities for working with colleagues and sharing the development of effective practice with them
  • Contribute to the selection and professional development of other teachers and support staff including the induction and assessment of new teachers, teachers serving induction periods and where appropriate threshold assessments
  • Ensure that colleagues working with you are appropriately involved in supporting learning and understand the roles they are expected to fulfil
  • Take part as required in the review, development and management of the activities relating to the curriculum, organisation and pastoral functions of the Academy
  • Cover for absent colleagues / PPA

Fulfil wider professional responsibilities

  • Work collaboratively with others to develop effective professional relationships
  • Deploy support staff effectively as appropriate
  • Communicate effectively with parents/carers with regard to pupils’ achievements and well-being using Academy systems/processes as appropriate
  • Communicate and co-operate with relevant external bodies
  • Make a positive contribution to the wider life and ethos of the Academy

Administration

  • Register the attendance of and supervise learners, before, during or after school sessions as appropriate
  • Participate in and carry out any administrative and organisational tasks within the remit of the current School Teachers’ Pay And Conditions Document

Professional development

  • Regularly review the effectiveness of your teaching and assessment procedures and its impact on pupils’ progress, attainment and well being, refining your approaches where necessary responding to advice and feedback from colleagues
  • Be responsible for improving your teaching through participating fully in training and development opportunities identified by the Academy or as developed as an outcome of your appraisal
  • Proactively participate with arrangements made in accordance with the appraisal regulations 2012

Other

  • To have professional regard for the ethos, policies and practices of the Academy in which you teach, and maintain high standards in your own attendance and punctuality
  • Perform any reasonable duties as requested by the Executive Principal

  • Applied knowledge and understanding of SEND
  • Ability to teach pupils with autism, utilising autism-specific approaches to ensure successful outcomes would be desirable

Commitment to safeguarding

ContinU Plus Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and
volunteers to share this commitment.

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About Continu Plus Academy

School type
Free School, ages 11 to 17
School size
34 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 17
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Email address
cmurphy@cpa.worcs.sch.uk
Phone number
01562822463
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We are an "Outstanding" Alternative Free School in the beautiful county of Worcestershire, teaching secondary school aged pupils in a warm nurturing environment.

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