Teaching Assistant
The Weston Road Academy, Stafford, Staffordshire, ST18 0YG13 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
1 December 2025 at 9am
Date listed
18 November 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: Monday to Wednesday 32.5 hours a week 39 weeks per year
Contract type
- Permanent
Actual salary
- £20,037-£20,682
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and committed individual who cares deeply about the prospects of the young people and someone who is passionate about working in education.
We seek somebody who will have a committed focus on developing children within a caring and aspirational environment.
All staff at the school share the Academy’s vision that every pupil will ‘Aspire and Believe to Achieve the Extraordinary’. Pupils will leave The Weston Road Academy with excellentacademic outcomes and a clear purpose for the next stage of their lives.
What the school offers its staff
We can offer you a friendly working environment with a supportive and dedicated team ofcolleagues and enthusiastic and well-behaved pupils.
The Weston Road Academy is a friendly, harmonious, progressive, over-subscribed 11-18 academy, located on the edge of an attractive county town. The Academy has an outstanding reputation for pastoral care.
Further information about the job
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
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.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About The Weston Road Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 987 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Weston Road Academy website
- Email address
- lbirks@westonroad.staffs.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01785 413600
Weston Road is a friendly, harmonious, progressive, over-subscribed 11-18 academy, located on the edge of an attractive county town. The Academy has an outstanding reputation for pastoral care.
Our ethos is built on traditional values such as respect, hard work, community, pride in our appearance and high expectations. We work together to instil an enjoyment in learning and strive to support each child. We work hard to develop their confidence and skills to be the best they can be and to reach their full potential.
We are not just a school recognised by Ofsted as Good, we are also welcoming and caring, with the staff, ideas and a drive to continually improve. Our students leave us well qualified and proud of their achievements. We guide them to be mature, highly skilled and successful learners equipped for the fast-paced modern society they will eventually join.
In return for your overwhelming desire for excellence and career ambition, we offer an outstanding framework for improving learning and a stimulating, innovative environment.
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