Teaching Assistant

Hillview School for Girls, Tonbridge, Kent, TN9 2HE

13 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2026

• Closing date

  6 July 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  23 June 2026

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: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Actual pro rata salary £19,434 gross per annum,

Teaching Assistant job summary

Full Time Teaching Assistant

The View @ East Street

(Satellite Centre of Hillview School for Girls)

Are you passionate about supporting young people, recognising individual qualities and strengths, and aspiring to attain excellence in learning support? We are looking for an enthusiastic and dedicated Teaching Assistant to join our friendly and experienced team here at The View @ East Street to offer a range of support to students in lessons and supporting with their independent study sessions in small groups and 1-1.

WHY CHOOSE US?

The View @ East Street is a provision based in the heart of Tonbridge. It is a comfortable and small-scale study centre for 16 to 18-year-old students. This Satellite Centre, of the highly successful Hillview School for Girls, offers the highest level of support through a personalised and nurturing approach to its students, with dedicated tutors and pastoral support. This centre supports young people who would benefit and prefer to study in a smaller learning environment.

Within the centre we also support Year 10 &11 students from other local schools with an anxiety-based school avoidance programme. Within the five years of supporting Post 16 and Year 11 students, there is proven success of the work we do with our students with over 92% annually of all our students having a positive destination in education or training.

Additional Learning Support at TV@ES is designed to remove any potential barriers to learning and ensure successful outcomes. We work closely with all our students and parents to organise support and make reasonable adjustments to their learning experiences to enable positive outcomes emotionally, socially and academically.

You will have the skills to:

• Provide 1:1 and small group support as necessary and as specified by the Centre Manager & ASENCo

• Supervise and work with groups and individual students to make sure they understand their work and stay focused within lessons

• Actively encourage students to participate in learning tasks, activities and interventions consistent with their developmental level, physical abilities and medical conditions

· Build effective nurturing and learning relationships with students, whilst maintaining professional boundaries

· Be flexible and open to change for working on different activities

· To enjoy working with other people in a small scale learning environment

· Communicate effectively with parents and carers to support students' needs

· Give encouragement and feedback using language and vocabulary which the student is likely to understand

· To be able to carry out basic tasks on a computer

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

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

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Hillview School for Girls

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1544 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Hillview School for Girls website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/hillview-school-for-girls-tonbridge

Hillview School for Girls is a large non-selective, single-sex school with a co-educational Sixth Form. The school is oversubscribed and is highly popular within the local area, attracting students from all ability ranges, with an interest in creative subjects, a supportive pastoral ethos and high expectations. We are a high-attaining Single Academy Trust with attainment being amongst the top non-selectives in Kent and performing within the top 10% of all schools nationally based on Progress 8 in 2018. The school is proud of its Performing Arts Specialism and has a long-standing record of high achievement in these subjects and across the curriculum over many years. Ofsted visited in 2018 and the school achieved a Good grading, the school is well on it’s way to Outstanding. Our belief is around the pure potential and possibility of the child. Our vision is that “Students unlock their pure potential to drive their future and thrive in society”. We believe that our students can achieve highly and can be successful, we do not limit their success and support our students to believe in themselves and reach for the very highest standards. To achieve this we maintain a supportive, respectful environment where we all work together to make Hillview the very best it can be. We have focused and calm learning environments, where students come to learn and teachers can teach, with a robust behaviour management system to support where needed.
As a school we value a broad and flexible curriculum. We do not limit our students to studying the EBACC and allow a relatively free choice across GCSEs and one of the widest range of subject offers at KS5. We believe that students should be able to study the subjects where they are able to succeed and thrive and actively support skills and knowledge development within all areas of study. We offer a wide range of opportunities and believe that it is through engagement within these opportunities that the students can show most growth and development personally. This is supported through our PDL curriculum that runs throughout the school and supports the students in understanding themselves, the world around them and how to manage their lives. This includes a strong careers programme that aids learners in making choices for the future through well-planned and provisioned careers workshops.
Our expanding Sixth Form is successful and popular, with students choosing our provision for many reasons: the performing or creative subjects, for a range of academic studies or for the breadth of choice. Students’ progress to universities, specialist performing arts and creative arts college/schools, apprenticeships and employment.

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