Teaching Assistant
The Weston Road Academy, Stafford, Staffordshire, ST18 0YG20 days remaining to apply
Closing date
29 September 2025 at 9am
Date listed
9 September 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: 32.5 hours per week, term time (39 weeks)
Contract type
- Permanent
Actual salary
- £20,037-£20,682
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking to recruit an inspiring Teaching Assistant to join our team.
We can offer you a friendly working environment with a supportive and dedicated team of colleagues 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. In March 2023, Ofsted judged the Academy Good, commenting that, “The Weston Road Academy is a calm, caring school in which pupils can thrive and feel safe. Staff know pupils well and support them to achieve their full potential. Pupils appreciate this support and are happy at school. They respond by working hard and achieving high standards.”
Please see our website for further details:
www.westonroad.staffs.sch.uk/TheAcademy/Vacancies/
Closing date: Monday 29th September 9am
Completed applications should be returned to lbirks@westonroad.staffs.sch.uk
What the school offers its staff
Thank you very much for requesting details for the position of Teaching Assistant at The Weston Road Academy.
This is an exciting opportunity for a person wishing to develop their career in an
environment that is supportive of its staff. The successful candidate will be joining the academy at an exciting time as it continues to be oversubscribed. We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and committed individual who cares deeply about the prospects of the young people under our care, and someone who is passionate about working in education. Although this is a term time only role, your salary will be paid monthly throughout the year.
We seek somebody who will have a committed focus on developing children within a caring and aspirational environment. You will benefit from working with a strong team of staff in a purpose built area of the school. 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 excellent academic outcomes and a clear purpose for the next stage of their lives.
Our information pack gives details of the post and the recruitment process. I hope that you will be inspired to apply for this exciting opportunity and look forward to receiving your completed application. In the meantime, if you have any queries or would like to arrange a visit to The Weston Road Academy, please contact us on 01785 413600.
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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