Teaching Assistant

Beacon Academy, Crowborough, East Sussex, TN6 2AS

13 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  asap

• Closing date

  2 October 2025 at 11am

• Date listed

  18 September 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: £24,795.00 - £24,795.00 Annually (FTE) Due to the roles being part time/term time only, the salary will be pro-rata. Please contact us for details of the approximate actual salary.

Teaching Assistant job summary

Teaching Assistants x2

Start: as soon as possible

Grade/Salary: Single Status Grade 3, currently £24,795 per annum, full time equivalent 

Contracts:

• Full time, term time only, 37 hours per week, fixed term contract for 1 year due to funding

• Part time, term time only, 15 hours per week, fixed term contract for 1 year due to secondment

We are looking for two professional and self-motivated individuals, with excellent communication skills and the ability to be flexible. The successful candidates will join our team of dedicated and experienced Teaching Assistants who assist in promoting the learning and personal development of all students, including, but not exclusively, those with special educational needs. Whilst experience is preferable it is not essential, and training will be given.

Beacon Academy is a split site, semi-rural, mixed 11-18 non-selective converter academy with approximately 1600 students, including over 300 students in our Sixth Form. We are situated centrally in Crowborough on the outskirts of the Ashdown Forest, an area of outstanding natural beauty. We are close to Tunbridge Wells and the south coast. The vast majority of our staff travel to Beacon from a variety of locations within the southeast, including Brighton, Eastbourne, Lewes and Tunbridge Wells.

In September 2022, Beacon Academy, together with Uplands Academy in Wadhurst, became a member of the MARK Education Trust (formally Beacon Community College Academy Trust). The acronym, MARK, was selected because staff who work in the Trust are motivated, ambitious, resourceful, and knowledgeable. We were pleased to expand our Trust further in September 2025 with the addition of Hailsham Academy. This continued growth reflects our shared commitment to educational excellence, collaboration and supporting the success of all students across our Academies.

We work meticulously to secure a culture of unapologetically high expectations that are underpinned by our collective, uncompromising belief and ambition for our students, and for the experienced, loyal, highly skilled and highly-effective team of staff that teach them, allowing teachers to teach and students to learn in a school where leadership, management, behaviour and welfare are all judged as outstanding. MARK Education Trust is committed to the development of both its staff and students.  

For further details, please contact the Human Resources department on 01892 603000 or email hr@beacon-academy.org. Please be advised that we do not accept curriculum vitae.

MARK Education Trust (Beacon, Uplands and Hailsham Academies) is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants.

NB: we advise applying promptly for this post as we reserve the right to close and interview early if sufficient suitable applications have been received.

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.

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Commitment to safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to Enhanced DBS clearance and suitable references.

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 Beacon Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1662 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Beacon Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/beacon-academy

We are a split site, semi-rural, mixed 11-18 non-selective converter academy with approximately 1630 students, including over 250 students in our Sixth Form. We are situated centrally in Crowborough on the outskirts of the Ashdown Forest, an area of outstanding natural beauty. We are close to Tunbridge Wells and the South Coast. The vast majority of our staff travel to Beacon from a variety of destinations within the South East, including Brighton, Eastbourne, Lewes and Tunbridge Wells.

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