Teaching Assistant and Admin Support

Ashby School, Ashby-De-La-Zouch, Leicestershire, LE65 1DT

19 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 November 2025

• Closing date

  28 October 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  9 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
• Working pattern: Part time, full time
• Contract type: Casual
• Full-time equivalent salary: Actual salary: £19,541

Teaching Assistant and Admin Support job summary

Teaching Assistant and Admin Support

Grade 6, Points 9-10

FTE £25,994 - £26,409

Actual salary: £19,541 for 32.5hrs

32.5 to 37 hours a week, 39 weeks a year

Required ideally from November 2025

Do you want a job that is fulfilling?  Do you love and value supporting young people?  Do you believe in the opportunity for every child to have the best possible chance to learn?  Are you patient, tenacious, optimistic and a great communicator?  Then Ashby School could be the place for you!

Our Teaching Assistants work with individual and small groups of students with a range of leanring needs.

They also contribute to our intervention programme lead by our intervention lead TA and delivered alongside our academic tutors. Our learning and pastoral systems come together in a range of facilities including:

 The LINC Learning and Inclusion Centre where our dedicated team of Teaching and Learning

Support Assistants work with students with Special Educational Needs in both classroom settings

and intervention groups.

• The Well-being Room focussing on supporting student well-being.

We would like other additional interventions to support SEMH and deliver a broad range of outdoor learning activities in line with Forest School.

We are looking for someone who can encourage curiosity, teamwork, problem-solving, and self-directed learning through structured and unstructured outdoor experiences Additional to the Teaching Assistant role you will also provide support to our administrative team.

This is a temporary contract until July 2027.

Closing date for applications Tuesday 28th October 2025 9am we may close earlier should we find the right candidate.

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.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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 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 Ashby School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1679 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Ashby School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/ashby-school-ashby-de-la-zouch

Ashby School is a thriving, successful and over-subscribed 11-19 Academy with over 1,600 students on roll including 500 in Ashby Sixth form. Conveniently located close to the M42 and M1, within easy reach of several areas of outstanding natural beauty and with the national forest on the doorstep, the school is set in its own attractive grounds in the expanding market town of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire.

At Ashby School prides itself on putting students at its heart. We want all our students to have a happy and successful learning experience and are committed to ensuring that all students fulfil their academic potential.

Everyone in the Ashby School community is committed to achieving this, because, at Ashby, ‘Anything is Possible’.

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