Teaching Assistant

Stanchester Academy, Stoke-sub-Hamdon, Somerset, TA14 6UG

Deadline is today

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  3 April 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  18 March 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: 27.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday.
• Contract type: Permanent
• Actual salary: £15,225.47 per annum

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are seeking to appoint a Teaching Assistant whose role will include supporting students with learning within the classroom and through targeted interventions. The successful applicant will need to be flexible and able to use their own initiative to help provide the best outcomes for students.

The ideal candidate will have excellent literacy skills. They will have experience of working with students who have additional needs; have good behaviour management skills and a willingness to help students achieve and enable them to be the best they can. Experience of supporting pupils with mental health difficulties would also be valuable.

What the school offers its staff

- Employee Reward Scheme including high street and supermarket discounts, and an employee wellbeing centre.

- On site parking

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.

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.

Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

STAN TA JD.pdf - 183 KB (opens in new tab)

About Stanchester Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 791 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Stanchester Academy website
• Email address: recruitment@btc-trust.org
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/stanchester-academy

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