Teaching Assistant (EAL)

Meadowhead School Academy Trust, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S8 8BR

5 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  30 April 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  3 April 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: English Additional Language (EAL)
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £19,188.00 - £20,783.25 Annually (Actual) Salary is based on working term time only plus training days.

Teaching Assistant (EAL) job summary

Meadowhead School Academy Trust are looking to appoint a highly motivated and well-organised person to join our team as an English as an Additional Language (EAL) Teaching Assistant.

The successful applicant will work within a classroom setting either on a 1-2-1 basis or with a small group of students to promote inclusion and provide support for students who have English as a second language.

This role is varied and in addition to classroom support, you will have an opportunity to make a real difference to our students by supporting them during form time or after school study.

You will support our mainstream teachers to deliver lessons that enhance the cognitive academic language proficiency of advanced EAL students and provide a strong focus on language acquisition where necessary.

A background of working with students with English as an Additional Language is required to be successful in this role.

Staff benefits include enrolment onto the enhanced package for Smart Clinic which provides occupational health and well-being support for all employees.

The working hours for the position are 37 hours per week, working8.00am – 4pm Monday – Thursday and 8.00am – 3.30pm on Friday’s, 39 weeks per year (term time plus staff training days)

If you would like to join our school, where every person matters, please submit your application by the closing date below.

SAFEGUARDING STATEMENT

Meadowhead School Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We welcome applications from underrepresented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation, or religion.

Any position that involves working with children requires declaration of all convictions/cautions regardless of whether these are deemed as spent and a DBS check will be carried out before any employment commences. Should you be shortlisted for this position, you will be asked to declare any convictions.

In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024 and safer recruitment practices, the school will conduct an online search for all shortlisted candidates. The online search is part of our safeguarding checks and will seek publicly available information on candidates’ suitability to work with children.

References will be obtained before interview at shortlisting stage and may be used in the interview process. If previous employment has included working with children, then at least one referee must be from this employment regardless of whether this is the current or most recent employment. Any gaps in employment must be detailed and an explanation provided in the relevant section.

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

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs are not accepted.

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.

About Meadowhead School Academy Trust

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1924 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Meadowhead School Academy Trust website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/meadowhead-school-academy-trust

Secondary and Sixth Form

School location

Get a job alert when similar jobs are listed

Find more school jobs in Sheffield