Teaching Assistant - Level 3

The Python Hill Academy, Mansfield, NG21 0JZ

22 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  19 June 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  22 May 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Full time: 32.5 hours per week Monday to Friday
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: NJC Point 5-7

What skills and experience we're looking for

The Python Hill Academy is part of The Forge Trust and we pride ourselves in promoting extremely high standards in all aspects of school life. Our ethos is to encourage our children to be aspirational and maintain a work ethic that will help them achieve their future goals. As a result, we expect our staff to promote these values through their own practice.

We are looking for a dedicated and ambitious teaching assistant to work alongside the teaching staff to support the learning needs of children. The position has the flexibility to be a 1:1 and classroom teaching assistant. The position will be for the foundation stage unit but the successful applicant should be prepared to work across all phases of the school.

The successful candidate will need to:

• Have a commitment to helping all pupils achieve their best, regardless of their background or starting point;
• Have excellent skills in Numeracy and Literacy
• Have the ability to support social communication and language skills
• Promote and nurture independence
• Use their initiative to adapt activities to meet the needs of the individual
• Be proactive and flexible
• Be a team player with a positive approach
• Liaise with the child’s family and professionals involved
• Build’s positive working relationships with children and adults alike
• Have the ability to inspire and motivate all children as well as making learning fun
• Have high expectations of behaviour and attitudes towards learning;
• Have excellent organisational skills;

What the school offers its staff

The Python Hill Academy can offer you:

• A truly amazing group of friendly, motivated and well-behaved children, who we are all proud of;
• A supportive staff team;
• Small class sizes;
• High quality CPD within The Forge Trust;
• An exciting opportunity to continue the transformation of The Python Hill Academy in its journey to becoming outstanding;

Further details about the role

About us:

The FORGE Trust is a primary school led, multi-academy trust which was founded in September 2016 on the success of The Sir Donald Bailey Academy in Newark, Nottinghamshire. There is a clear vision to provide the very best education for every pupil in our schools ensuring the quality of teaching is excellent and the environment for learning encourages all pupils to find their talent and succeed. We believe strongly in our mission to change the lives of these children and have the ambition to be the most successful multi-academy trust in the country! The Trust specialises in working in communities which face disadvantage and challenge, and prides itself on having a transformational agenda to significantly impact on the life chances of children in the communities served by FORGE schools.

Visits to the school are warmly welcomed.

Please contact Julie Parkin at The Python Hill Academy either by email: jparkin@pythonhill.couk or by telephone: 01623 464164 to arrange a mutually convenient appointment.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff to share this commitment and undergo appropriate checks; therefore all posts within the trust are subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Check.

The trust welcomes applications from all, irrespective of gender, marital status, disability, age, race, or sexual orientation.

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

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to jparkin@pythonhill.co.uk

CVs are not accepted.

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.

Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

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About The Python Hill Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 5 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 308 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 5 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Python Hill Academy website
• Email address: jparkin@pythonhill.co.uk
• Phone number: 01623 464 164
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-python-hill-academy

Arranging a visit to The Python Hill Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email jparkin@pythonhill.co.uk.

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