Teaching Assistant

Astrea Academy Sheffield, Sheffield, S3 9BE

7 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  7 February 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  27 January 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time, full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £21,730.00 - £22,428.00 Annually (Actual) scale point 6 -8

Teaching Assistant job summary

Astrea Academy Sheffield Secondary Phase are looking for an expectational Teaching Assistant to join their team. This is a fixed term position until 31st August 2025, Part time and full time applications will be considered.

As part of our relentless commitment to excellence every day, all our scholars experience quality first teaching expertly delivered within the classroom by subject specialists. At the heart of our quality first teaching offer is invisible intervention. This invisible intervention ensures the additional support required to meet the needs of our scholars with special educational needs is embedded within our core curriculum offer through common approaches to classroom culture. This ensures all scholars can succeed while feeling a sense of belonging at Astrea Academy Sheffield. This is a unique opportunity for you to join a supportive, hardworking, caring team. Every day is different, but every day is rewarding.

We are looking for:

• Experience of working within an education setting
• Experience of working within KS3/4

In return, we can offer you:

• Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Continued professional development and training opportunities
• Free on-site parking

Interested in applying?

If this is something you’re interested in, looking for a new challenge, have a passion for education or maybe all of the above, take a look at the Applicant Brief to find out more about the role to apply.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early - please apply as soon as you can to avoid disappointment.

The Astrea Resourcing Team supports this job advert. Agency involvement is not required.

Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to satisfactory background checks including references and enhanced DBS checks.

Commitment to safeguarding

Astrea Academy Sheffield is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its scholars and expects all staff, volunteers and members of the Academy community to share this commitment.

We are fully committed to ensuring that consistent and effective safeguarding procedures are in place to support families, scholars and staff within the Academy. All concerns are passed through the Safeguarding Team in line with our Astrea Academy Sheffield Safeguarding Policy 2023 and Keeping Children Safe in Education 2023 Guidance.

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.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Astrea Academy Sheffield

• School type: Free School, ages 2 to 18
• Education phase: Through
• School size: 1025 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Astrea Academy Sheffield website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/astrea-academy-sheffield (opens in new tab)

At Astrea Academy Sheffield, we address our young people as scholars because we know that every single one of them is capable of outstanding academic achievements. We promote scholarship by offering an all-through curriculum which is rich in powerful knowledge and meticulously planned by subject experts. We know that powerful knowledge is the key that will open powerful doors for our scholars in the future. Therefore, we are relentlessly committed to delivering exceptional lessons in every classroom, every day.

We respect every scholars’ right to access an exceptional education and offer academic, inspiring and broad opportunities for all through both our curriculum and co-curriculum. We teach our young people to be responsible through our thoughtful character education programme and essential habit building work. Our scholars respect everyone in our academy’s community and grow their responsibility, knowing that they are the leaders of tomorrow.

We are tenacious in our commitment to do the very best for the young people in our care and this tenacity is mirrored in the way that our scholars work on their academic and character education every day.

We foster curiosity in our young people by providing them with a rounded education which opens doors to new opportunities, ideas and experiences. Our classrooms are filled with the awe and wonder that is comes from the joy of learning.

If you are interested in coming to see more of what we do, then please email info@astreasheffield.org to arrange a visit.

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