Teaching Assistant

More than one location, Leigh Academies Trust

Deadline is tomorrow

• Start date details

  October 2023

• Closing date

  2 October 2023 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  12 September 2023

Important

This teaching role is at more than one school in the trust. You can find out more in schools overview.

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: No, visa sponsorship not available
• Key stage: Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern:
  • Full time - 32.5 hours per week, Term Time + 1 week inset
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Actual salary £17,160 per annum (£22,714 full time equivalent)

What skills and experience we're looking for

Our TAs are pivotal to our success in the classroom and provide a great deal of support for our teachers, therefore our successful candidate will be able to establish strong working relationships with staff and students alike. Key responsibilities will be to provide pupils with a wide range of support, guided by the Class Teacher, to enable children to make progress and attain the targets set within the National Curriculum or Individual Education Plans.

What the school offers its staff

• The opportunity to help shape our future by joining a LAT Academy
• A school community committed to raising achievement and attainment
• A supportive Governing Body and Leadership Team​​​​​​​

Commitment to safeguarding

Leigh Academies Trust and all of our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair, robust and consistent recruitment process across all academies and business units which is inline with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates - you can read more about this in our Recruitment Guidance. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.

Applying for the job

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

Apply for the job by following the link below

Skilled worker visa sponsorship is not available for this job.

Upload additional documents

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Teaching Assistant Job Description _ Molehill Primary Academy (1).pdf - 73.3 KB (opens in new tab)

About the schools

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: Leigh Academies Trust website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: Isabelle.cochrane@LATrust.org.uk
• Phone number: 01634 412 258
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/leigh-academies-trust (opens in new tab)

Leigh Academies Trust is one of the country’s largest and most-established multi-academy trusts operating across Kent, Medway and South East London. It contains primary, secondary and special academies and is highly inclusive and successful. Our mission is to deliver “education for a better world” by ensuring that young people in our academies have an excellent start in life regardless of their background or ability. We are a non-profit making charitable company, based in Strood, Medway. The Trust exists to support and assist schools to build upon their existing strengths and to help them achieve rapid educational transformation. It has significant experience in running schools, and today includes both sponsored academies and schools which have chosen to convert to academy status. The Trust was formed in 2008 with the linking of the Leigh Technology Academy and Longfield Academy under one governing body. Today, we encompass more than 20,000 students between the ages of 2 months and 19 in over 30 primary, secondary and special academies including one all-through academy and one grammar school. In addition to providing high-quality educational opportunities for all of our children, aged from 2 months to 19 years, and their families, we are proud to provide many opportunities for lifelong learning. These are delivered through the organisations under our umbrella: Thames Gateway Teaching School Hub, LAT Apprenticeships and Kent and Medway Training (KMT), which delivers routes into teaching. Benefits for LAT employees: We strive to offer a range of benefits that all employees can take advantage of which we regularly review and improve, based on what our staff want and need - click here to view what you’d receive as a member of staff with Leigh Academies Trust.

School Details

Molehill Primary Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 303 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Molehill Primary Academy website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/molehill-primary-academy (opens in new tab)

Tree Tops Primary Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 314 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Tree Tops Primary Academy website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/tree-tops-primary-academy (opens in new tab)

Arranging a visit to Leigh Academies Trust

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email Isabelle.cochrane@LATrust.org.uk.

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