Teaching Assistant

Minehead Middle School, Minehead, Somerset, TA24 5RH

11 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  18 September 2026

• Closing date

  29 September 2026 at 11:59am

• Date listed

  18 September 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 1, Key stage 2, Key stage 3, Key stage 4
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £25,614.00 - 26,016.00 FTE

Teaching Assistant job summary

 Job Advert: Teaching Assistant

Role: Teaching Assistant

Location: Minehead Middle School

Start Date: ASAP

Closing Date: 29.09.2026

Interview Date: w/c 05.10.2026

Grade: 1 SCP 3 - 4 (£25,614.00 - £26,016 FTE)

Hours of Work:   

8.45am – 3.45pm

32.5 hours per week, 5 days a week

Term time and 5 inset days 

Purpose of the role:

Working under the direct instruction of teaching and senior staff, you will be based primarily in the classroom alongside the teacher to support access to learning for pupils and assist with classroom management.

As part of our wider inclusion ethos, you will play a key role in providing high-quality support that helps remove barriers to learning, supports emotional, social, and academic progress, and ensures every pupil feels safe, valued, and included.

Key Responsibilities

• Supporting Pupils: Supervise and assist students to ensure their safety and access to learning, encouraging them to interact positively with others and act independently.

• Personal & Welfare Support: Attend to pupils’ personal needs—including social, health, physical, hygiene, first aid, and welfare matters—and implement related personal programmes.

• Targeted Inclusion: Build constructive relationships with pupils, serving as a positive role model. Develop a strong understanding of students' individual Special Educational Needs (SEN) and implement tailored strategies outlined in their learning profiles.

• Pastoral Care: Promote the full inclusion and acceptance of all students, providing directed pastoral support alongside tutors and house staff.

 

At Minehead Middle School, part of the Midsomer Norton Schools Partnership, the child is truly at the centre of everything we do. Our fundamental aim is to secure the very best life chances for every single child, regardless of their starting point.

Following a period of rapid improvement, we are continually building on our successes, and you will be joining a dynamic, supportive, and friendly team at an exciting time in our journey. As a Student Welfare Officer, you will play a pivotal role in supporting our young people, ensuring their well-being, and helping them overcome barriers to learning so they can embody our core values of ambition, respect, and determination.

Set at the heart of our local community, we offer a warm, welcoming environment where we aim to nurture the leaders of the future—both in our pupils and our staff. We work hard to provide a rich range of professional development opportunities to help you build outstanding practice in your role and across the wider school.

If you are an enthusiastic, hardworking, and ambitious professional looking to make a genuine difference in children's lives, we would love to hear from you. Visits to our school are warmly welcomed.

There are many advantages to working for us. Included in your actual annual salary is generous annual leave entitlement, access to a local government pension scheme, sick pay scheme, cycle-to-work scheme, free eye tests for VDU users and employee assistance helpline. Support staff in schools can also benefit from a range of national discount schemes available to education professionals such as the Blue Light Card offering savings on shopping, travel, and leisure.

We encourage early applications as we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the closing date if we receive sufficient applications for the role.

Safeguarding Statement:

Midsomer Norton Schools Partnership is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We particularly welcome applications from underrepresented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation, or religion.

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 Minehead Middle School

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 9 to 13
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 570 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 9 to 13
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Minehead Middle School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/minehead-middle-school

The West Somerset Academies Trust is a group of like-minded schools that share common values. Our family of academies works together to promote high academic standards, the development of good character and which puts children at the centre of its thinking.

Minehead Middle School is situated on the edge of Exmoor National Park and close to the Quantock Hills, the first ever area of outstanding natural beauty, designated in 1956. The school is one of 6 schools (2 Middle Schools and 4 First Schools) and 3 nurseries within the West Somerset Academies Trust. The school retains its own identity and benefits from being able to take full advantage of the opportunities available from belonging to the Trust, such as well resourced schools and nurseries and high quality CPD opportunities.

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