Teaching Assistant

Sarum Academy, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP2 9HS

14 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 June 2026

• Closing date

  11 May 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  27 April 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £26,196.00 - £26,824.00 Annually (FTE)

Teaching Assistant job summary

In this role, you will support the learning, progress, and inclusion of students across Key Stages 3 and 4, with a particular focus on those with special educational needs and those requiring additional intervention. You will work closely with teachers and the SEN team to deliver targeted 1:1 and small group interventions, helping to improve literacy, numeracy, and subject-specific outcomes while breaking down barriers to learning.

Day to day, you will provide in-class support, adapt resources to meet individual needs, and use a range of strategies to engage and support learners. You will monitor and track student progress within intervention programmes, feeding back to staff and contributing to planning next steps. Promoting positive behaviour and supporting students to access the curriculum will be central to your work.

You will play an active role in the wider life of the school, contributing to pastoral support, mentoring, and enrichment activities, while building positive relationships with students, staff, and families. The role also includes supporting supervision, educational visits, and, where required, acting as an exam invigilator or reader/scribe.

As part of a collaborative and inclusive team, you will engage in ongoing professional development, follow guidance from colleagues and external professionals, and contribute to a supportive environment where all students are encouraged to succeed.

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 Sarum Academy

• School type: Academy, Church of England, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 781 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Sarum Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/sarum-academy

Welcome to the Sarum Academy website. Sarum Academy is a Voluntary Controlled Church of England Academy founded in 2010 delivering high quality, non-selective, personalised education to pupils aged 11-19 years. The Academy is a member of the Magna Learning Partnership Academy Trust.

Sarum Academy is an ambitious school, which celebrates excellence, nurtures creativity and engenders social responsibility. We work with all pupils in helping each child to think big, work hard, exceed their ambitions and in doing so be the person God created them to be.

What makes our school different is the care we afford every member of our Academy. Relationships founded on trust and respect are the lifeblood of our warm and happy school, this is why we care for one another, this is why our pupils achieve more than they think possible.

As a Church of England School our ethos is underpinned by Christian values and principles and embraces the Church of England vision for young people, a vision of ‘human flourishing for all’. The four basic elements of wisdom, hope, community and dignity are reflected in our values of respect, aspiration, excellence, service, tenacity and partnership. Sarum Academy pupils leave the school as young adults, successful and thoughtful, and we are proud of each and every one of them and the contributions them make.

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