Teaching Assistant - Fixed Term
New Leaf School, Walsall, West Midlands, WV12 4EG6 days remaining to apply
Closing date
30 June 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
24 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time: 35
Contract type
- Fixed term - Expected End Date: 20/07/2026
Pay scale
- Grade 6 SCP15-23
What skills and experience we're looking for
New Leaf School is seeking to recruit a highly skilled and enthusiastic
Teaching Assistant: Fixed Term Contract
(1st September 2025 – December 31st 2025)
Grade 6 (SCP 15-23) – 35 hours per week term time only
Actual Salary Range (including 5 training days per year)
£22,721 - £26,213
Our staff are hard-working, experienced, friendly and supportive.
Visits to our school are encouraged.
The Mercian Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Safeguarding and Safer Recruitment Policies can be found on our website. This position is subject to appropriate vetting procedures including a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) which will require you to disclose details of all unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions as part of the recruitment process.
Forms to be returned by the closing date shown below.
Closing date: Monday 7th July 2025
What the school offers its staff
New Leaf School is the only Key Stage1, 2 and 3 Pupil Referral Unit in Walsall. Most pupils are placed at New Leaf for social and emotional reasons which have often resulted in them becoming resistant learners. Far from having learning difficulties, many simply find learning difficult and need a different approach. Consequently, the ability to engage with challenging and vulnerable learners is an essential part of this job. When the structures around learning are effective, pupils can and do settle to learning at this school and progress can be rapid, rewarding and sustained. Most of the pupils have already experienced significant school and social exclusion in one form or another and New Leaf works hard to mitigate the social disadvantages that have resulted in their placement here. These students are some of Walsall’s most vulnerable learners and as such should benefit from the very best we have to offer.
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 are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
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About New Leaf School
- School type
- Academy, ages 5 to 16
- School size
- No information available
- Age range
- 5 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Email address
- lottie.fellows@merciantrust.org.uk
Arranging a visit to New Leaf School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email lottie.fellows@merciantrust.org.uk.
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