Teaching Assistant
St Ivo Academy, St Ives, Cambridgeshire, PE27 6RR19 days remaining to apply
Closing date
22 April 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
2 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Special Education Needs (SEN)
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £18,000.00 - £18,610.00 Annually (Actual) SCP 6 to 8, £23,893 to £24,702 FTE
Teaching Assistant job summary
Join Astrea Academy Trust as a Teaching Assistant at St Ivo Academy!
Required: As soon as possible
Contract Type: Fixed term post to 31 August 2025
Hours: 32.5 hours per week, 39 weeks (term time plus professional days)
Salary: SCP 6 to 8, £23,893 to £24,702 full time, £18,000 to £18,610 actual
About Us: St Ivo Academy is a large 11-18 comprehensive academy located in the town of St Ives, Cambridgeshire. With around 1700 students, including 300 in our Sixth Form, we are proud of our 70-year history and our place within the local community. We are a truly comprehensive and inclusive academy, embracing everyone from students preparing for Oxbridge to the most vulnerable. Our commitment to a values-driven, inclusive, aspirational, and academic education ensures all our students learn, thrive, and lead successful lives.
Your Role: We are seeking a dedicated and enthusiastic Teaching Assistant to join our thriving team. You will support students in their learning, helping them overcome barriers and achieve their full potential.
What We Offer:
- Professional Growth: Access to excellent CPD opportunities and career development.
- Supportive Environment: Highly visible and supportive senior leaders who have your back.
- Career Progression: Opportunities for promotion within the Astrea Cambridgeshire region.
- Further Qualifications: The chance to complete additional qualifications.
- Work-Life Balance: Systems that ensure you can focus on your core purpose.
- Health Support: Access to AXA’s 24/7 health support line for medical advice.
- Cycle to Work Scheme: Salary sacrifice deduction for bicycles and cycling accessories.
- Discounts and Savings: Access to the Blue Light Card and Costco membership.
- Enhanced Family Leave: Paid leave to support our people when they need it the most.
- Optical Care: Financial contribution to optical care for habitual DSE users.
- Life Assurance: Peace of mind for our people and their families.
- Discounted Gym Membership: Available at The Gym Group with 245 locations nationwide.
What We Are Looking For:
- Hard-working professionals with excellent knowledge in their area of expertise.
- Colleagues who are aligned to our values and mission. If you fit with our culture, you will love working here.
- Colleagues who passionately believe that all children can achieve, no matter their starting point, background, or needs. Someone who does not make excuses for what children can achieve.
Commitment to Safeguarding and EDI: Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All posts are subject to satisfactory background checks, including references and enhanced DBS checks. We value diversity and encourage applications from candidates who are underrepresented in our workforce, including people from Black, Asian, and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people, and LGBTQI+ communities. As a Disability Confident employer, we are committed to promoting a culture that ensures there are no barriers to the recruitment, development, and progression of disabled staff across the trust. We provide reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure disabled job applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate their abilities.
Interested in Applying? If you are looking for a new opportunity and have a passion for education, we would love to hear from you. Visit our academy to experience our excellent learning environment and meet our dedicated team. For more details, check the Applicant Brief.
Flexible Interview Dates: The academy reserves the right to interview shortlisted candidates during the application window (if applicable).
Ready to Make a Difference? Take the next step in your career and join our forward-thinking team. Apply today and be part of our mission to create a positive impact!
Commitment to safeguarding
Our academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointment to this post would be subject to an Enhanced Child Workforce DBS check with Barred List, satisfactory medical and employment references.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About St Ivo Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1627 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- St Ivo Academy website
It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to St Ivo Academy. We are an inclusive 11-18 academy which for the last 60 years has been privileged to serve the community of St Ives and its surrounding area.
Our vision for St Ivo Academy is:
We believe that all students, regardless of their starting point, should be guided and supported to develop the academic, social and moral understanding and behaviours to be successful and happy in their future.
As a community of students, staff and parents/carers we are respectful, polite and courteous to each other in all that we do.
The values we hold as being central to this are:
Respect
Resilience
Our ethos is, very simply:
Work hard, be kind
We believe that St Ivo Academy offers a unique mix of academic success and care for the individual. It is a great place to learn and to work. We are very proud of a school which is constantly evolving and adapting to provide the best education for the young people of St Ives.
You will find key information about the school on this site or for more regular updates use our Facebook, Instagram or Twitter accounts. You are, of course, very welcome to arrange a visit to see for yourself what St Ivo Academy has to offer.
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