Teaching Assistant (multiple vacancies)
Youth Engagement Schools Trust, Macclesfield, SK11 8JF23 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
17 April 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
25 March 2026
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 1, Key stage 2, Key stage 3
Working pattern
- Full time (Can be done as a job share): Full Time (37 Hours) Term time only
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £22,188 - £ 23,162 (Actual Salary)
What skills and experience we're looking for
About us
Attending this school is a life-changing experience. Most pupils have previously had negative experiences of education.
The care and support that staff give pupils when they arrive helps them to overcome their lack of trust in schools. For many pupils, this transforms their attitudes to learning and their future life chances. The school has high expectations of all pupils.
Staff have a good understanding of each pupil and their individual needs. The school provides support, specific to each pupil. In class, pupils engage and are enthusiastic about their learning. Most pupils arrive with significant gaps in their knowledge. However, they make great strides in their social development and behaviour. This enables pupils to make the smooth transition back into a mainstream setting or a specialist provision when the time is right.
Pupils benefit from highly positive relationships with staff, consistent routines and praise. They understand what the school expects from them. This helps them to feel safe, secure and to thrive. The atmosphere around school is warm, calm and purposeful. Pupils are routinely supported to understand their emotions. They demonstrate positive behaviour in class and around the school. Pupils attend daily and cannot wait to see what the day holds. Whether that be time spent together with their friends in class or trips out to local places of cultural interest.
Cornerstone Academy is a safe and stimulating place of learning for students who, for whatever reason, have become disengaged from mainstream education.
Cornerstone Academy is proud to share that, in addition to our existing Alternative Provision, we will be opening a new 48-place specialist provision in September 2026. This new school will cater for children aged 7 to 13 years old with Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) needs or Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC). The provision will operate under the same ethos that defines Cornerstone: authentic relationships, adaptive to need, and child-centred practice. It will be a school where children can flourish and be the best they can be, supported by caring and dedicated staff who are committed to helping every child thrive.
Job Description
Teaching Assistant Job Description
To work collaboratively with the class teacher in order to support outstanding lessons and support students emotional health and wellbeing.
As an Academy our key focuses will be:
1)Re-engagement, raising aspiration and motivating
- Recognising that personal and emotional development, independent living and decision-making skills and discovering meaningful interests and goals are essential to educational success.
- A personalised curriculum including specific engagement activities based on the interests of each individual learner.
- Positive and trusted adult role models in the form of Teaching Assistants and qualified teachers recruited for their enthusiasm for working with disconnected young people and their ability to understand and adapt, in order to meet the needs of the students.
- Opportunities to support social and emotional needs through individualised programmes and a varied curriculum.
2) Unlocking every child’s potential
- The curriculum will determine the knowledge and skills students will learn at each stage. It is planned efficiently to Support exceptional lessons where students make outstanding progress, and are able to relate their learning to the wider world.
- Individualised learning programmes, based on the interests and skills of the students and which draw upon the diverse range of pastoral, vocational, engagement and personal and social development activities.
- Small groups of students (max 1:8) with capability to offer 1 to 1 student support.
- Practical application of English and Maths to develop skills that prepare for accreditation and work towards independence and social integration.
3)Recognising and celebrating achievement
- Positive learning environments with praise for success and recognition of achievement.
- Regular liaison with parents and carers to involve them fully in the education of their children including weekly progress telephone calls.
- Celebration of success through: weekly celebrations with students and staff; rewards for targeted elements; and high profile annual celebration events.
- Relevant vocational learning that broadens the curriculum offer to students providing the opportunity to support their classroom learning by gaining practical skills in the workplace and ultimately allowing them to achieve recognised qualifications.
Key Priorities;
- Support the vision and direction of the school
- Support teachers and Learning Mentors to deliver an engaging specialist curriculum within the academy
- Support effective learning and teaching throughout school
- Deploy and create resources efficiently and effectively to meet specific objectives in line with your specialist area strategic plans.
- Ensure effective pastoral care and behaviour support throughout the school
Teaching and Learning;
As a Teaching Assistant of The Academy you will support teaching staff to ensure effective teaching and learning throughout the Academy, monitor and evaluate the progress made in your specialist area and present students’ achievement effectively, using benchmarks to track set targets for improvements. He/she will:
- Support teaching staff to ensure high quality teaching is delivered to students. This will be in your subject area as well as other subjects as and when required
- Support teaching staff to provide and maintain an environment and a code of behaviour and discipline which promotes and secures good teaching, effective learning and high standards of achievement
- To support the curriculum and its assessment; work with the teachers and Learning Mentors to monitor and evaluate it in order to identify areas for improvement
- To support students with their emotional health and wellbeing
- To develop key relationships with students and parents and carers
- To engage in outreach to ensure all our students needs are met
- Ensure that the relevant interventions are delivered to support improvements in literacy, numeracy and emotional wellbeing.
Partnership Working;
- Seek opportunities to invite parents and carers, into The Academy to enrich student experience and to promote The Academy’s value to the wider community
- Collaborate with staff, to actively promote the British values, academic, spiritual, moral, social, emotional and cultural well-being of students and their families
Health and Safety / Child Protection;
- To help ensure that health and safety standards meet statutory requirements, monitoring health and safety matters within the school, particularly ensuring that all members of the staff take reasonable care for the health and safety of themselves and others
- To help ensure that Child Protection and Safeguarding procedures and Department of Health assessments of Children in Need are rigorously complied with, and that the welfare and health and safety of students are of prime consideration
- To promote the safety and well-being of students and staff
- To ensure good order and discipline of students and staff
Extra CPD Opportunities
- Engage with CPD opportunities in order to effectively fulfil your role and achieve the best possible outcomes for our students.
Desired Criteria
Essential Criteria
What the school offers its staff
Benefits
Benefits· Very small class sizes· Fantastic classroom support· Shorter teaching day· Access to training and CPD including further professional qualifications· Specialist training where required· Cycle to work scheme· Flexible and supportive approach to work· Free lunch at school· Free parking(including EV charging stations on most sites)· Nursery benefits· Education Mutual –private health support- access to a 24/7 GP, free face to face counselling, physiotherapy, nurse help-line, prescription service whenever you need it· Perkbox - vouchers, discounts and wellbeing·
Flexible working opportunities
Flexible working - We recognise that attracting and retaining the highest quality candidates means offering a flexible working environment. We consider a variety of flexible arrangements, including part-time roles, job-sharing, flexible start and finish times, and hybrid opportunities where appropriate. By adopting a flexible approach, we empower our staff to bring their best selves to work every day, fostering creativity, commitment, and resilience. Our teams remain diverse, motivated, and aligned with our vision of transforming children's lives through world-changing education. We believe that by investing in the wellbeing and professional fulfilment of our staff, we are also investing in the futures of the communities we serve. Candidates are encouraged to discuss flexible working from recruitment onwards, in line with the statutory "day one right" principle, and ensuring equal opportunities for all groups of prospective employees
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
The safe recruitment of staff in the Trust is the first step in the effective safeguarding and promotion of welfare for our children. The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, volunteers and other workers in the Trust to share this commitment. It is recognised that this can only be achieved through sound procedures, good inter-agency co-operation and the recruitment and retention of competent, motivated employees who are suited to, and fulfilled in the roles they undertake.
A copy of the Trust’s Safer Recruitment Policy is available on request.
Applying for the job
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View advert on school website (opens in new tab)About Youth Engagement Schools Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- j.crouch@theyestrust.org
The Youth Engagement Schools (YES) Trust is a multi-academy trust based broadly in the North West of England. Together, we have developed a growing family of schools which makes a difference for children and young people. As we continue to set and raise the bar in all the work we undertake, we are keen to maintain our national recognition as one of the highest achieving alternative and SEN multi-academy trusts in the country.
We unashamedly use words like “kindness” and “compassion” in our values. Our ability to make that difference rests on our vision and our core values which include an absolute belief in the importance of collaboration and mutual support, and on our recognition of the trust as a family of schools in which colleagues are equally valued. We want to continue this further, and to become the employer of choice for teaching and support staff across the region.
We are:
• Child centred
• Adaptive and sensitive to need
• Authentic in our relationships
We strive for:
• Solution-focused mindsets
• A climate of reflection and feedback
• Intrinsic motivation *
• Continual improvement
• A culture of collaboration
Our minimum expectations of our staff are:
• Belief in our core values
• Professional conduct at all times
• Appropriate communication
• Ability to follow direction
• Kindness and compassion
• Flexibility and adaptability
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