Teaching Assistant Apprentice

Salford City Academy, Manchester, M30 7PQ

18 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  3 July 2026 at 8am

• Date listed

  12 June 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £14,449.00 - £22,913.00 Annually (Actual) £14,449.50, - £22,913 (Dependent on age, qualifications and experience)

Teaching Assistant Apprentice job summary

Are you passionate about making a real difference to young people’s lives?

At Salford City Academy, we are committed to ensuring every student is supported to succeed, regardless of their starting point.

We are looking for a dedicated and compassionate individual to join our team as a Teaching Assistant Apprentice. This is a fantastic opportunity to begin a rewarding career in education, gaining hands-on experience in the classroom while working towards a recognised qualification. You will play a key role in supporting students—particularly those with additional needs—to access learning, build confidence, and achieve their full potential within a fully inclusive school community.

Why choose us?

State of the art facilities

The academy enjoys state of the art facilities and has a committed, high quality teaching team which is focussed on engaging and motivating all students. We have invested over 3.5 million in the last two years and a further 1.5 committed to be invested. Into the building over the past five years and investment won’t stop into the future. We have a state-of-the-art gymnasium, free for all staff, brand new dining, and catering facilities, vast outside space with a new 3G pitch, newly built music and drama rooms. Our digital strategy ensures students and staff have access to the latest digital and electronic resources. With staff having a personal surface pro laptop.

Mission Statement

Our vision is to provide an excellent education for all our students, which brings out the best in all of them and prepares them for success in life. The academy is an exciting place to be, and it is an excellent time to join us.

We are proud members of the Salford community, constantly striving to be the best and bringing out the best in everyone. Tolerance, mutual respect, honesty, and co-operation are fostered in line with our Culture of Excellence. All students and staff strive for excellence and demonstrate this through our Culture of Excellence values -Responsibility, Excellence, Aspiration, Commitment and Teamwork. These underpin every aspect of our curriculum and academy life.

We feel passionately about supporting students to overcome any barriers to learning and promoting diversity and tolerance across the academy. We have an extensive personal development programme ‘Aspire’ which incorporates all aspects of student’s wider development. ‘Pupils make a valuable contribution to the life of the school. This is particularly evident in the work of the prefects. Pupils spoke highly of the rewards programme. Disadvantaged pupils, and those pupils with SEND, engage fully in all aspects of school life.’ Ofsted 2022.

What do we offer:

Disruption free learning

We believe passionately that students should learn in a disruption free environment. Our expectations of behaviour are very high, and we believe that all of our students are capable of meeting them. We accept no excuses for disruption to learning or poor behaviour. We have a very clear and well-structured behaviour system which supports this.

Excellent continuous professional development and collaboration

Salford City Academy is committed to professional development; all staff are expected to actively participate in a programme of continuing professional development (CPD). We work collaboratively, share good practice, and have a Trust-wide approach to development. We need to make sure that we have the right people in the right place, doing the job that is needed to build excellent provision for our children and young people. Staff are supported professionally to ensure they can do that and are valued and recognised for their work. We have an extensive professional development programme within the academy, where staff are involved in reflective practice, coaching, weekly deliberate practice and CPD focused on academy, subject and individual priorities.

United Learning schools work as a team and achieve more by sharing than any single school could. Our subject specialists, our Group-wide intranet, our own curriculum and our online learning portal all help us share knowledge and resources, helping to simplify work processes and manage workloads for an improved work-life balance. Our approaches within the academy support this so that our main focus can be on planning and delivering high quality teaching and learning. For example, all behaviour and detentions are managed centrally by the Inclusion Team. This allows teachers the time and capacity to deliver high quality lessons and supports their workload and well-being

Staff will form a dynamic team who are supportive, friendly, and dedicated to instilling the qualities of Responsibility, Excellence, Aspiration, Commitment and Teamwork in the next generation of children, preparing them for successful, fulfilling, and enjoyable adult lives.

We also offer a wide range of other employee benefits to all of our staff in return for their commitment to our schools, and to help contribute towards improving their overall well-being.

If you want to find out more, please visit our website

https://www.salfordcity-academy.org/

To apply, please complete the online application form by clicking ‘apply here’

United Learning is a unique group of independent and state schools working together to achieve the best in everyone. Our vision is to provide excellent education so that all young people are able to make a success of their lives and, if we are to realise this vision, we need to make sure we attract, develop and reward the key ingredient - you.

This position is subject to an enhanced DBS clearance.

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 Salford City Academy

• School type: Academy, Christian, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 891 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Salford City Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/salford-city-academy

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