Teaching Assistant Level 2 Grade 4

Trent View College, Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, DN17 1DS

Deadline is today

• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  6 August 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  11 July 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subjects: Teaching Assistant, Learning Support Assistant
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £17,786.53 - £18,948.14 Annually (Actual) 31 hours per week term time + 5 inset days - Grade 4, £24,790 - £26,409 FTE

Teaching Assistant Level 2 Grade 4 job summary

ABOUT US

Trent View College is a newly build post 16 special educational needs college. Trent View College aims to equip young people with essential skills for life, building on and enhancing their College journey. Removing barriers to learning, we are a fully inclusive College, where individual differences are celebrated and aspirations are supported. Our aim is to develop inquisitive, aspirational and resilient young people who are fully equipped to engage and contribute to their own communities.

Trent View College Our college is proud to offer a supportive team, high quality personalised training and an opportunity to work with amazing students as outlined in our values - Pride, Aspire, Resilience and Nurture.

THE ROLE

Purpose of the Post

Working under the guidance of senior staff, Teaching Assistants play an important role in supporting and leading the academic and personal development of students both in and out of the classroom. This role can involve supervising the whole class, groups or individuals, maintaining good order and implementing agreed programmes of work. Teaching Assistants at this level will use their detailed and specialist knowledge to assist the teacher and support other members of staff.

Key Areas

Support for Students

• Establish good relationships with students, acting as a role model and being aware of and responding appropriately to individual needs

• Attend to students’ personal needs including social, health, physical, hygiene, first aid and welfare matters

• Supervise and support students ensuring their safety and access to learning

• Use specialist knowledge and experience to support students to learn in line with their individual learning plans or targets

• Provide feedback to students in relation to progress, achievement, behaviour and attendance

• Encourage pupils to interact and work cooperatively and employ strategies to recognise and reward achievement of self reliance

• Develop 1:1 mentoring relationships with students and provide appropriate support at times of crisis

THE CANDIDATE

• Experience in a school or similar setting
• Ideally experience working with children/ young people with SEN / SEMH needs
• Ideally be educated with GCSE Math's and English
• Ideally a car driver

SALARY / HOURS

Starting salary for a grade 4 Teaching Assistant is £17786.53 actual annual salary working 31 hours per week Mon-Fri term time only + 5 inset days + amazing benefits working for our Wellspring trust https://wellspringacademytrust.co.uk/careers/why-join-us/

NEXT STEPS

For more information please refer to the job description attached.

If you are interested in this excellent opportunity simply click APPLY NOW. If you have additional questions then please reach out to Jodie Hutchison, Office Manager: j.hutchison@trentviewcollege.co.uk. If you are unsure if you meet all the criteria but have an interest in this opportunity then please do submit your application.

We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion - We want our people to reflect our diverse communities and create a safe space in which everyone belongs. We welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds and especially those from under-represented groups including those from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.

Wellspring Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils. All posts are offered subject to enhanced DBS checks. As this role involves working with children and vulnerable adults in regulated activity, please note that it is an offence to apply for the role if barred from engaging in regulated activity with children and vulnerable adults.
References will be requested and an online search carried out for shortlisted candidates, prior to attendance at interview. Further pre-employment checks, including prohibition from teaching, childcare disqualification and section 128 checks, if deemed relevant for the role, will be completed for the successful candidate upon acceptance of the post.
If you are currently living overseas or have lived / worked overseas in the last five years please be aware that you will be required to provide an overseas criminal records check from the country/countries you have resided in, if you are the preferred candidate for the post.

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 Trent View College

• School type: Free School, ages 16 to 19
• School size: 45 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 16 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Trent View College website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/trent-view-college

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