Teaching Assistant KS3/4
Oakwood School, Walsall, West Midlands, WS9 9JS7 days remaining to apply
Closing date
11 December 2025 at 9am
Date listed
4 December 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Salary Grade 5 SCP 9 - 17 £19,061.78 - £21,832.38
What skills and experience we're looking for
Oakwood School
Level 2 Teaching Assistant required to cover maternity leave from
Monday 5th January 2026
Term time only
32.5 hours per week
Salary Grade 5 SCP 9 - 17 £19,061.78 - £21,832.38
We are looking for an inspirational Teaching Assistant to work in our wonderful school and be a part of our dynamic team.
Governors want to appoint a committed, highly motivated, well organised and enthusiastic practitioner, who will embrace our inclusive and creative philosophy and help us further develop an environment where ‘Every child is given the opportunity to sky rocket!’
The successful candidate will join a dedicated and hardworking team of teachers and TAs in an innovative, creative and supportive school with the most inspirational children.
Oakwood School is highly committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The post is subject to an enhanced DBS Disclosure check along with relevant employment checks.
These will require you to disclose details of all unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions as part of the recruitment process. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
Shortlisted candidates will also be asked to complete a self-declaration of their criminal record or information that would make them unsuitable to work with children.
A copy of our Safeguarding Policy is available to view on our school website.
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.
What the school offers its staff
Oakwood School
Level 2 Teaching Assistant required to cover maternity leave from
Monday 5th January 2026
Term time only
32.5 hours per week
Salary Grade 5 SCP 9 - 17 £19,061.78 - £21,832.38
We are looking for an inspirational Teaching Assistant to work in our wonderful school and be a part of our dynamic team.
Governors want to appoint a committed, highly motivated, well organised and enthusiastic practitioner, who will embrace our inclusive and creative philosophy and help us further develop an environment where ‘Every child is given the opportunity to sky rocket!’
The successful candidate will join a dedicated and hardworking team of teachers and TAs in an innovative, creative and supportive school with the most inspirational children.
Oakwood School is highly committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The post is subject to an enhanced DBS Disclosure check along with relevant employment checks.
These will require you to disclose details of all unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions as part of the recruitment process. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
Shortlisted candidates will also be asked to complete a self-declaration of their criminal record or information that would make them unsuitable to work with children.
A copy of our Safeguarding Policy is available to view on our school website.
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.
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.
View advert on school website (opens in new tab)About Oakwood School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 15
- School size
- Up to 150 pupils
- Age range
- 3 to 15
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Oakwood School website
- Email address
- jasmine.gill@merciantrust.org.uk
School location
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