Teaching Assistant
Bay Leadership Academy, Morecambe, Lancashire, LA3 1AB19 days remaining to apply
Job start date
20 October 2025
Closing date
30 September 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
11 September 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: 33 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £25,583.00 to £25,989.00 per annum (pro rata £19,625.92 to £19,937.39 per annum)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Who we’re looking for
We’re looking for a dedicated individual to provide tailored support to our pupils. You will be committed to making a positive difference to young people’s lives and in supporting and developing their learning. Your intervention will help enable an outstanding learning environment for our young people, providing the support they need to succeed.
The successful candidate will be a committed team player with excellent organisational and technical skills. You will have the ability to effectively support learning and teaching, and to develop relationships across our school and the Star community.
You will have:
- A NVQ Level 3 Teaching Assistant or equivalent.
- Experience of working with children in a school setting.
- The ability to maintain positive relationships with students and other adults.
- The ability to work with pupils on a one to one, small groups and whole class.
What the school offers its staff
About Bay Leadership Academy
Bay Leadership Academy is a secondary school for 11 to 16 year olds in Morecambe. We joined Star Academies in 2018 and, like all Star schools, we have a leadership specialism.
The school was rated ‘good’ in all four areas of the inspection framework during its inspection in October 2022.
We are an ambitious school with high expectations for all of our pupils. We provide a knowledge-based academic curriculum alongside a rich and diverse leadership programme that grows character and inspires charitable and social action. Our pursuit of educational excellence is based upon our fundamental belief that every pupil has the capacity to become a successful and inspirational leader.
Further information about the job
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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About Bay Leadership Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 724 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Bay Leadership Academy website
- Email address
- steven.houghton@bay.staracademies.org
- Phone number
- 01524 416830
Bay Leadership Academy in Morecambe, Lancashire is a 1276 place, 11-18 secondary school and sixth form college. Bay joined the Trust on 1 June 2018. Like all Star schools, it has “Leadership” as a specialism.
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