Teaching Support Assistant
Wimbledon College, London, SW19 4NS16 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
30 June 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
13 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
- HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time: 35 hours per week / 40 weeks per year - Term time plus 10 days Working 8am to 4pm Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Fixed term - One Year Initially
Full-time equivalent salary
- £31,524-£32,931
Pay scale
- Scale 5 SCP 12-15 [Outer London] Actual £28,371- £29,637 p.a
What skills and experience we're looking for
- Demonstrable levels of high standards of literacy and numeracy (e.g. GCSE A*-C or 4+ in Mathematics or English).
- A minimum of two years' experience of working with children is desirable but not essential (either paid or unpaid capacity) preferably in a secondary education setting.
- Experience of delivering sport coaching (Desirable).
- Ability to supervise pupils effectively both in and out of school in line with the school's behaviour policy.
What the school offers its staff
- A warm friendly community where all are respected and valued
- Good opportunities for personal and career development.
- Pension Scheme.
- Free access to employee assistance programme.
- Situated minutes from Wimbledon Common and Village, with exceptional facilities on site for staff including swimming pool and gym.
- Great transport links with Bus, Train, Tube and Tram stops nearby.
Further details about the role
Wimbledon College currently have an exciting opportunity to join the team as a Teaching Support Assistant, supporting teaching staff with responsibility for the development and educational provision of learners.
You’ll be responsible for providing lesson supervision to cover for absent teachers. Other duties include providing support for teachers in their daily work such as assisting with preparation of resources, setting up classroom displays and general administration support for a department or faculty. This can also include working with the 6th Form Team and supporting pupils by supervising the study halls. Experience of working with teenagers is desirable (either paid or unpaid capacity), preferably in a secondary education setting. Also suitable for graduates looking to gain experience in education.
We will withdraw the advert if a suitable candidate is found in advance of the deadline so please apply as soon as possible.
Commitment to safeguarding
At Wimbledon College we recognise our moral and statutory responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of all pupils.
We make every effort to provide an environment in which children and adults feel safe, secure, valued and respected, and feel confident to talk if they are worried, believing they will be effectively listened to.
We are alert to the signs of abuse and neglect and follow our procedures to ensure that children receive effective support, protection and justice. Child protection forms part of the school’s safeguarding policy.
Applying for the job
Please complete the online application.
CVs are not accepted.
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About Wimbledon College
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1248 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Wimbledon College website
- Email address
- collegesecretary@wimbledoncollege.org.uk
- Phone number
- 0208 879 9323
Wimbledon College is a popular and oversubscribed school which prides itself on its exam results at both GCSE and A level with results significantly above national averages. As a Jesuit school, our ethos can be summed up by St Ignatius Loyola’s vision for Jesuit schools as being “for improvement in living and learning for the greater glory of God and the common good.” Central to St Ignatius’ vision and to the College is the education of the whole person, providing each pupil with the opportunity to strive for excellence in all that they do.
The school is accommodated in striking Grade II listed buildings on Edge Hill, above the parish church of the Sacred Heart, on a spacious green site in a conservation area. Private and public funds have facilitated a substantial development of the facilities of the College over the last fifteen years.
The College currently has close to 1300 boys on roll including 270 in the Sixth Form. It is a great place to work with a supportive, committed staff who share the school’s high expectations. All teachers are specialists in their subjects and there is a well-established CPD programme which encourages staff to work collaboratively on self-identified areas of research and pedagogy.
Wimbledon College has a strong system of pastoral care and discipline. All teachers are form tutors and work with Heads of Line in ensuring every boy is supported, cared for and challenged to progress academically and become involved in the wider life of the school. The school’s intake is truly comprehensive academically, socially and economically and ethnically. It draws from across southwest London and from Surrey and north of the Thames also. Last year saw boys join the College from over 40 different schools. Places in Y7 are regularly oversubscribed threefold.
We encourage all of our boys to be involved in extra-curricular clubs and activities and we offer over 80 different such opportunities to the boys. The school has a strong tradition of drama and music as well as a very extensive sports programme in the school, financially supported by parents’ donations to the School Fund.
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