Teaching Assistant - Maternity Cover
Windsor High School and Sixth Form, Halesowen, West Midlands, B63 4BB21 days remaining to apply
Closing date
2 October 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
11 September 2026
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full time equivalent salary
- £18,224.00 - £19,106.00 Annually (Actual)
Teaching Assistant - Maternity Cover job summary
About Our School and Windsor Academy Trust
Welcome to our dedicated school team. We are a dynamic and inclusive community of professionals who play a crucial role in the daily success of our educational environment. Our staff are deeply committed to providing the operational excellence required to support our teachers and students, ensuring our school is a safe, welcoming, and highly effective place to learn and work.
Windsor High School and Sixth Form is a large and thriving 11-18 mixed comprehensive academy with approximately 1,700 students, including 300 in our successful Sixth Form. As the founder school of a growing Multi Academy Trust, we offer staff a wealth of cross-phase opportunities.
We are incredibly proud to be part of the Windsor Academy Trust family. Working within the Trust means you benefit from shared expertise, wider opportunities, and a powerful network of support. This collective power allows us to focus relentlessly on our shared moral purpose: unlocking the academic and personal potential of every child, while ensuring our staff thrive.
About the Role
This is a fantastic opportunity for an enthusiastic teaching assistant to join an experienced, established, and successful department within a friendly and supportive school.
About You We are looking for a highly organised and collaborative professional who:
Possesses strong operational, administrative, or technical expertise relevant to the school environment.
Thrives in an agile team and is always looking for ways to improve school systems and efficiencies.
Deeply understands that every role, whether in an office or a classroom, plays a vital part in unlocking student potential.
What We Offer You
We want you to love coming to work. Here is how we support, develop, and look after you from the moment you join us:
A Supportive Family & True Collaboration
You are never working in a silo at Windsor Academy Trust. We are a team that co-creates, supports one another, and ensures every single voice is heard.
A Warm Welcome: From Day One, you will be welcomed into an inclusive team.
Valued Co-Professionals: We recognise our operational, finance, HR, IT, and estates colleagues as the essential engine driving our shared educational mission.
Cross-Trust Networks: Connect with a brilliant network of professional services specialists across our family of schools to share best practices and solve challenges together.
Space to Breathe and Thrive We are serious about protecting your wellbeing and ensuring a healthy work-life balance.
Flexible Approaches: Benefit from clear working hours and flexible working opportunities where applicable.
Exceptional Benefits: Enjoy a highly competitive package including generous pensions, Vivup retail discounts, and cycle-to-work schemes.
Your Wellbeing First: Access a comprehensive support package, including a confidential Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) and healthcare benefits.
A Bespoke Pathway for Your Career
We are committed to helping you reach your full potential, offering clear avenues for professional development.
The Talent Institute: We invest heavily in our support staff, providing the paid training and mentorship you need to advance.
Tailored to You: Whether you want to master your specific discipline, access funded professional body memberships, or step into operational leadership, we build a bespoke learning pathway just for you.
Safeguarding & DBS Requirements
Because the safety of our students is our absolute priority, please note that this role is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, alongside other standard pre-employment safeguarding checks. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer dedicated to safer recruitment.
Ready to join the Windsor Academy Trust family? APPLY NOW
If you want to work in a school trust that values your mind, protects your time, and invests in your future, we would love to hear from you.
Further information about the job
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Windsor High School and Sixth Form
- Organisation type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- Size
- 1710 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
School location
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