Teaching Assistant

Tor Bridge High, Plymouth, Devon, PL6 8UN

Deadline is tomorrow

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  12 November 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  21 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: 30 hours per week x 40 weeks
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: NJC Grade C £25,584 - £26,403 Pro Rata
• Actual salary: £18,296 - £18,881

What skills and experience we're looking for

Key purpose of the role: Enable the Trust to realise its mission to ‘Transform lives, strengthen communities and make the world a better place by supporting students to learn and flourish.

Your responsibilities:

• Live our mission and values every day
• Follow all safeguarding policies and procedures to protect students and maintain a culture in which students are protected and achieve the best outcomes
• Support effective learning as directed, adapting resources to remove barriers and meet individual needs
• Deliver pre-determined leaning and support programmes in class and in groups outside the normal classroom area
• Support students access to learning adapting and utilizing appropriate resources
• Monitor and evaluate and assess students as directed, recording progress and providing feedback to support continuous progress
• Assist with the supervision of pupils during break, lunchtimes and after school, offering structured activities as directed
• Attend to the welfare, administer medications and deliver personal care to students including those with special educations needs
• Support students to understand positive behaviours and school policies, reporting any challenges to the teacher
• Promote the inclusion and acceptance of all students recognizing and responding to individual needs
• Support students with exams and assessments as a scribe/reader as directed by the SENDCO
• Undertake tasks, including administrational activities as delegated

Grading Criteria:

• Support colleagues to familiarise themselves with their role
• Follow instructions and procedures which may occasionally need to be adapted to resolve routine problems
• Use readily available information or assistance to resolve issues where the outcome may not be straight forward.
• Undertake work carried out within clearly defined rules and make decisions from a range of established options
• Make decisions which have a material effect on internal operations of their own or other departments.
• Work where tasks are interchanged but the program is not normally interrupted.
• Work requiring substantial physical effort with short periods of intense physical effort; or normal physical effort regularly in awkward postures.
• Work may be outside or inside but with exposure to moderate noise, heat or difficult conditions
• Potential risk to personal safety due to contact with clients

What the school offers its staff

Relationships & Culture

• Always people first
• Connections
• Belonging

Work-life balance

• Centralised curriculum
• Enrichment activities
• Teacher friendly assessment

Growing Great People

• 1-1 coaching
• Trust Wide CPD Offer
• Powerful Networks

Passion & Energy

• Love coming to work
• Celebrate achievements
• Spread joy

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

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

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If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

Teaching Assistant Recruitment Pack.pdf - 1.06 MB (opens in new tab)

About Tor Bridge High

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1122 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Tor Bridge High website
• Email address: bgeorgiev@torbridge.net
• Phone number: 01752207872
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/tor-bridge-high

Our school is a well-established secondary school and sixth form, which caters for up to 1,200 pupils and has been oversubscribed for the past 7 years.

We are on a journey of school improvement with a relentless focus on high expectations with an aim to improve outcomes for all our students. This was reflected in our 2019 Year 11 results where we saw an overall increase in students’ progress - a reflection of the dedication of our staff for continued school improvement.

Arranging a visit to Tor Bridge High

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email bgeorgiev@torbridge.net.

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