Teaching Assistant Level 3

St Edmund's Catholic Academy, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV3 9DU

28 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  6 May 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  4 April 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subjects: Teaching Assistant, Learning Support Assistant
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £28,163.00 - £31,067.00 Annually (FTE) Full time, term time only, fixed term for one year initially. Pro rata to hours/weeks worked

Teaching Assistant Level 3 job summary

TEACHING ASSISTANT LEVEL 3

Required for September 2025

(Full time, term time only, fixed term for one year initially)

MAC Band E, £28,163 – £31,067

(pro rata to hours/weeks worked)

St. Edmund’s Catholic Academy is a wonderful and highly successful school where staff and students feel happy and safe and have a close working relationship. Our extremely popular school is situated in leafy Compton Park, adjacent to the Wolves Academy training grounds, with its wonderful open fields and sports facilities.

We have very high expectations of manners, behaviour and relationships and these expectations create an environment where all can achieve their ambitions and aspirations. We are looking for the right person to make a positive impact upon the Academy community.

Our community is wonderfully diverse, engaging and energetic. “A good school with an excellent sixth form” (Ofsted Nov 2019) we are at the forefront of both in-class and remote e- learning with a mission to ensure our students are all active citizens who will go on to do good in the world and make a difference. Our mission of “Love-Service-Forgiveness” underpins both formal teaching and the personal and spiritual development of our students.

With a flexible approach, the successful candidate will:-

• Work under the direction and guidance of teaching / senior staff to support groups and individuals in their learning.

• Work across the academy to deliver specific intervention programmes, for which training will be provided.

• Assist teachers in the whole planning cycle and the management/preparation of resources.

• You may also be required to supervise whole classes during the short-term absence of teachers.

• Develop good relationships with staff, parents, carers and other professionals.

• Contribute to the strong Catholic ethos of our Academies

As part of our commitment to safeguarding, this post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024 (KCSIE) online searches will be undertaken for prospective shortlisted candidates.

For more information or to access application forms, please visit our website https://www.sfscmac.co.uk/vacancies/ or please telephone the St Francis and St Clare Catholic MAC recruitment line 01902 558709).

We reserve the right to close this vacancy sooner should the right applicant

apply.

Closing Date: Noon Tuesday 6 May 2025

Interview Date: tbc

St Edmund’s is part of the St Francis and St Clare Catholic Multi Academy Company. You can find out more at: Sfscmac.co.uk

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 are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About St Edmund's Catholic Academy

• School type: Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1114 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: St Edmund's Catholic Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-edmunds-catholic-academy

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