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Teaching Assistant

Lode Heath School, Solihull, West Midlands, B91 2HW

This job expired on 9 July 2025 – see similar jobs

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  9 July 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  25 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subjects: Teaching Assistant, Learning Support Assistant
• Working pattern: Full time, part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £25,992.00 - £28,624.00 Annually (FTE) Actual salary: £ 22,183 - £ 24,429

Teaching Assistant job summary

Looking for your next career step? How about joining an ambitious and forward-thinking family school that’s on a mission to ensure excellence for all our students?

You can look forward to being part of a genuinely friendly and supportive working environment where our Teaching Assistants and wider SEND team play an integral role in securing success for our students. This was recently recognised by Ofsted who said, “provision for pupils with special educational needs and/ or disabilities is a significant strength of the school”.

Everyone here works together towards shared goals and we put our students’ wellbeing and achievement at the very heart of everything we do. There are plenty of opportunities for training and development too. So, if you’d like to build your skills and progress with us, we’ll help you to achieve your goals.

Like all staff members, you will promote high standards of behaviour for, and attitudes to, learning and will support students in their academic and personal needs. You will take a rigorous approach towards the commitment to protect and nurture students at Lode Heath School in keeping with agreed child protection, safeguarding, attendance and student support policies.

Lode Heath School is a member of the Arden Multi-Academy Trust where we are committed in working together to help and enrich the experiences of all within the AMAT family; we have a clear vision to generate self-belief, self-worth, esteem and confidence in our young people who can then display the ambition and aspiration in achieving high educational outcomes.

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.

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About Lode Heath School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1155 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Lode Heath School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/lode-heath-school

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