58 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    September 2025

  • Closing date

    23 September 2025 at 1am

  • Date listed

    23 July 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Teaching assistant

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Key stage 3, Key stage 4

Working pattern

Part time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£19,147 - £20,110 actual pa

Teaching Assistant job summary

Part of the Sapientia Education Trust

Tel:  01953 609012

Email: hr@setrust.co.uk

  • Salary: £19,147 - £20,110 actual pa (inc an allocation for holiday pay)
  • Permanent
  • Part Time 
  • 33.75 hours per week
  • Term-time plus 1 week
  • Required for September 2025/ASAP

Framingham Earl High School has over 100 staff dedicated to providing a First-Class education. The school prides itself in delivering education through strong academic lessons and a nurturing ethos which encapsulates a wide range of community and co-curricular links. The school’s most recent Ofsted in 2022 demonstrated the school has an “ambitious curriculum” and that “teachers make appropriate adaptations to support pupils, including those with SEND, to achieve well”, resulting in a rating of “Good”. GCSE results in 2022 saw the school achieve higher than the national average across a variety of subjects.

Framingham Earl High School holds a range of awards including School of Sanctuary status - this is in recognition of our work to ensure an inclusive and educative environment about difference. We are a member of the Sapientia Education Trust, an expanding multi-academy Trust with 9 Secondary and 13 Primary schools.

THE ROLE

We are looking for a hard-working and enthusiastic person with high standards and the ability to communicate and interact effectively with others as part of our school as a Teaching Assistant.

Teaching Assistants provide specific support and care for young people and work to facilitate high quality learning for all within the classroom. They support the teacher in their role and work closely with HLTAs (Higher Level Teaching Assistants) and SENDCO to support meeting key needs within the school.

TAs are required to have an Enhanced DBS and to observe and maintain appropriate professional boundaries at all times and avoid behaviour that might be misinterpreted by others. TAs will have a professional qualification and good standards of literacy and numeracy. 

How to apply

A job description is available from ‘Attachments’.

For this vacancy, if you click on the ‘Apply for Job’ button, you will be redirected to our Trust’s website to apply via our online application form.

Closing date: Applications will be considered upon receipt

Interview date: 20 & 21 Aug, 3 September 2025

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, therefore all applicants must be prepared to undergo a number of checks to confirm their suitability to work with children and young people. The Trust welcomes applications from all sectors of the community. In accordance with the Department of Education’s “Keeping Children Safe in Education”, references will be sought on all short-listed candidates before interview. 

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and you will be required to undergo an Enhanced DBS check or Enhanced DBS check with barred list. If you have information to declare it may be protected under the Exceptions Orders and you may not be required to declare it. You will be asked to make a criminal conviction declaration if you are shortlisted for the post. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.

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.
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Commitment to safeguarding

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, therefore all applicants must be prepared to undergo a number of checks to confirm their suitability to work with children and young people. The Trust welcomes applications from all sectors of the community. In accordance with the Department of Education’s “Keeping Children Safe in Education”, references will be sought on all short-listed candidates before interview.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

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About Framingham Earl High School

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 16
Education phase
Secondary
School size
802 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 16
Ofsted report
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Framingham Earl High School has over 100 staff dedicated to providing a First-Class education. The school prides itself in delivering education through strong academic lessons and a nurturing ethos which encapsulates a wide range of community and co-curricular links. The school’s most recent Ofsted in 2022 demonstrated the school has an “ambitious curriculum” and that “teachers make appropriate adaptations to support pupils, including those with SEND, to achieve well”, resulting in a rating of “Good”. GCSE results in 2022 saw the school achieve higher than the national average across a variety of subjects.

Framingham Earl High School holds a range of awards including School of Sanctuary status - this is in recognition of our work to ensure an inclusive and educative environment about difference.

Framingham Earl High School is a member of the Sapientia Education Trust (SET). SET is an expanding multi-academy trust with 10 primary and 7 secondary schools.

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