Teaching Assistant Level 1 - 15 hours per week term time only
Murray Park Community School, Derby, Derbyshire, DE3 9LL16 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
3 July 2025 at 9am
Date listed
16 June 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: 15 hours per week 8am-4pm less 30 minutes unpaid for lunch. Term time only
Contract type
- Permanent
Actual salary
- Salary: NJC Scale Pt 12 – 15 - £9,703-£10,189 (actual) pa
What skills and experience we're looking for
Teaching Assistant Level 1
Salary:NJC Scale Pt 12 – 15 - £9,703-£10,189 (actual) pa
Responsible to: SENDCO
Contract: 15 hours. Term time only 39 weeks
Framework: To work within the NJC current pay and conditions, current legislation and the policies of the school.
Murray Park School is a rewarding and professionally stimulating place towork. Over the last 3 years we have undergone a journey of rapid improvement; moving from a Requires Improvement Ofsted grading to Good in September 2022, along with a much improved Progress 8 score, as well as now being over-subscribed. Never complacent, we are now on our next stage of development and seek high-quality staff to enable this.
The ideal candidates will be highly motivated and excellent classroom assistant who is committed to student success and development. The successful candidates will join a hardworking; forward thinking and supportive department at an exciting time.
The person appointed will have:
•A passion for ensuring the best outcomes for all students, including those who are part of disadvantaged and vulnerable groups.
- Excellent pedagogical knowledge.
- Relentlessly high standards and expectations of all students.
- A commitment to continuous improvement of their own practice, irrelevant of job role, career stage or position.
- Staff at Murray Park School benefit from:
•Flexible working for all staff.
- A Senior Leadership Team who prioritise staff well-being and consider this when launching any new systems or pedagogical approaches.
- A robust and centralised behaviour system, including an internal Alternative Provision, to ensure learning in our classrooms is disruption free.
- A whole-school CPD package which includes the sharing of recent research and best-practice.
- An approach to pedagogy which ensures professionals deliver the highest-quality lessons and interventions possible, whilst still allowing the freedom to maintain autonomy.
How to Apply
An application pack can be downloaded from the school website at http://murraypark.derby.sch.uk/key-information/vacancies or apply via TES Online.
Murray Park School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and appointment to this post is subject to a criminal record and background check and references
What the school offers its staff
- Flexible working for all staff.
- A Senior Leadership Team who prioritise staff well-being and consider this when launching any new systems or pedagogical approaches.
- A robust and centralised behaviour system, including an internal Alternative Provision, to ensure learning in our classrooms is disruption free.
- A whole-school CPD package which includes the sharing of recent research and best-practice.
- An approach to pedagogy which ensures professionals deliver the highest-quality lessons and interventions possible, whilst still allowing the freedom to maintain autonomy.
Commitment to safeguarding
Murray Park School shares a commitment to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people. Our commitment is underpinned by robust processes and procedures that seek to maximise opportunity, minimise risk and continuously promote a culture that embraces the ethos of safeguarding amongst our workforce.
This post is Exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020 and is subject to an enhanced DBS Disclosure check.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@murraypark.derby.sch.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Murray Park Community School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1158 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Murray Park Community School website
- Email address
- sian.hubbard@murraypark.derby.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01332 515921
Murray Park is a dynamic and forward-looking 11-16 mixed comprehensive school on the western fringes of the city of Derby. It is a Foundation Status school, but has a close working relationship with the local authority.
We cater for approximately 1111 students, situated on a spacious site surrounded by greenery. We serve students from the Derby City area, within reach of the Derbyshire countryside and our cohort sizes are growing each year.
Our students reflect the full academic ability range and there is a huge breadth to the socio-economic status of our families.
Arranging a visit to Murray Park Community School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email sian.hubbard@murraypark.derby.sch.uk.
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