Teaching Assistant
Beccles High School, Beccles, Suffolk, NR34 7BQ21 days remaining to apply
Closing date
17 February 2026 at 12am (midnight)
Date listed
17 December 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £19,022 - £19,974 actual pa (inc holiday pay)
Teaching Assistant job summary
Part of the Sapientia Education Trust
Tel: 01502 718850
Email: S.Poll@Beccleshighschool.org
- Salary – £19,022 - £19,974 actual pa (inc holiday pay) £25,185 - £25,989 FTE
- Permanent
- Part Time
- 32.5 hours per week
- Term-time plus 1 week
Beccles High School is a vibrant, inclusive community where every student is known, supported and inspired. Since joining Sapientia Education Trust in September 2024, we’ve embraced a new era, one rooted in ambition, collaboration and student-centred learning.
We offer far more than just academic lessons. Our students benefit from 100 minutes every fortnight of enriching enhancement activities, ranging from sport and the arts to academic extension and community work, alongside a wide array of clubs and societies. These opportunities strengthen relationships and enrich personal development. From next year, after-school academies in football, STEM, and performing arts will add even more depth and ambition to our offer.
Located in a charming Suffolk market town, just 25 minutes from Norwich and near the stunning Broads and coast, we offer a more relaxed way of life, without compromising aspiration. At Beccles High School, we’re proud to be shaping brighter futures together.
THE ROLE
We’re looking for an enthusiastic Teaching Assistant to join Beccles High School, supporting students to thrive in the classroom and beyond. You’ll work closely with teachers and the SENCO to adapt resources, encourage independence, and help young people with SEND and vulnerable learners reach their full potential. This is a varied and rewarding role where flexibility, resilience, and teamwork are key — and where every day brings the chance to inspire confidence and shape futures. If you’re organised, compassionate, and ready to make a real impact, we’d love to hear from you.
If you would like to know more or to arrange a visit then please do not hesitate to contact Suzi Poll, office manager on - S.Poll@Beccleshighschool.org or Chris Barnes on 01502 718850.
How to apply
A job description and Recruitment Information Sheet are available from ‘Attachments’.
For this vacancy, if you click on the ‘Apply for Job’ button, you will be redirected to our Trust’s website to apply via our online application form.
Closing date: Applications will be considered upon receipt; therefore, early applications are encouraged.
Interview date: TBC
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, therefore all applicants must be prepared to undergo a number of checks to confirm their suitability to work with children and young people. The Trust welcomes applications from all sectors of the community. In accordance with the Department of Education’s “Keeping Children Safe in Education”, references will be sought on all short-listed candidates before interview.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and you will be required to undergo an Enhanced DBS check or Enhanced DBS check with barred list. If you have information to declare it may be protected under the Exceptions Orders and you may not be required to declare it. You will be asked to make a criminal conviction declaration if you are shortlisted for the post. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, therefore all applicants must be prepared to undergo a number of checks to confirm their suitability to work with children and young people. The Trust welcomes applications from all sectors of the community. In accordance with the Department of Education’s “Keeping Children Safe in Education”, references will be sought on all short-listed candidates before interview.
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Beccles High School
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 238 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Beccles High School website
At Beccles, we believe that each and every student deserves to go to an excellent school. Our focus is on delivering high-quality, engaging lessons and providing students with the care and guidance that allows them to succeed. Our students tell us that they value the way lessons are delivered and the strong relationships that exist in school between students and staff. This is only possible because of our small size and our belief and confidence in every student as an individual.
We offer a traditional curriculum that enables our students to flourish academically, and which lays the foundations for their successful progression into post-16 learning. We are preparing our young people to be thoughtful, innovative, capable, responsible global citizens of the future; they will leave us with excellent qualifications and having outperformed their counterparts nationally.
Our vision is shared by all staff, and together we are responsible for upholding and promoting the values within it. Staff are supported at all levels by middle and senior leaders in their teaching, behaviour management, career development and wellbeing.
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