Teaching Assistant

The Winstanley School, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE3 3BD

10 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  29 August 2025

• Closing date

  8 September 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  29 August 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Part time, full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: Grade 6 (£16,385 - £16,646)

Teaching Assistant job summary

Teaching Assistant

27.25 hours per week, plus training (equal to 5 days)

Paid at Grade 6 - Salary £16,385 to £16,646 per annum (actual salary)

Fixed term contract for one academic year in the first instance

The Winstanley School is seeking to appoint a committed and enthusiastic Teaching Assistant, to work with the DSL and Pastoral Lead for SEND and SENDCo in supporting our students. Experience of working with children, preferably in an educational setting, would be advantageous. The Teaching Assistant will be based at The Winstanley School, a popular and expanding 11-16 school situated in the heart of the vibrant and engaged Braunstone Town community. Winstanley is increasingly the school of choice for parents living in the local community and has been recognised as good by Ofsted.

This role offers candidates an exciting opportunity to contribute to the school’s relentless drive for excellence. You will possess a real passion for contributing to the learning of our young people and be able to promote the vision, and to live the values, of the LiFE Multi-Academy Trust.

The closing date for completed applications is 9am on Monday 8th September 2025

Application forms and further details can be downloaded from Eteach. 

LiFE Multi Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment will be subject to a DBS check and an online search.

At LiFE Multi Academy Trust we embed the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion into everything we do. As a Trust we actively encourage applications from those in minority groups and with diverse backgrounds.

LiFE Multi Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment will be subject to a DBS check and an online search.

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.

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Commitment to safeguarding

‘’LiFE Multi Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment will be subject to a DBS check and an online search.’’

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.

About The Winstanley School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 639 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Winstanley School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-winstanley-school

The Winstanley School is an 11-16 Leicestershire school situated in the heart of the Braunstone Town community. The school is part of the LiFE Multi-Academy Trust of which Bosworth Academy is the lead institution.

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