Teaching Assistant
The Elizabethan Academy, Retford, Nottinghamshire, DN22 7PY3 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025 (or sooner for the right candidate)
Closing date
28 April 2025 at 9am
Date listed
2 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5 hours TTO
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Grade 3 (5-7) £24,790 - £25,584 (pro-rata)
What skills and experience we're looking for
The Role: Teaching Assistant
This is a fantastic opportunity for an enthusiastic, dynamic, inspirational and highly motivated professional to join our successful school. Working within our Learning Support department, your role will be to provide support, either in lessons, as 1:1 tuition, or to small groups of students with varying abilities. You will be encouraging and supporting individual pupils to reach their full potential, whilst demonstrating a creative and determined attitude that will help motivate students. You will be directly supporting the students, as well as helping to organise the teaching and learning resources available to students and staff. An appropriate pay point will be assessed according to the skills and experiences of the sucessful candidate.
The successful candidate will be:
An excellent Teaching Assistant, or able to demonstrate the potential to become one, who is passionate about working with children and helping to inspire them to achieve high standards and realise their potential;
A great team player who can work successfully in collaboration with others and contribute towards the school ethos and its school improvement activities;
Someone who enjoys the challenge and can bring the vision, passion and drive to raise standards in all aspects of school life;
Be fully committed to working collaboratively with the wider school community to improve whole school wellbeing and mental health;
Able to make a significant contribution to the wider life of our School;
Experienced in working with children with social, emotional and mental health difficulties or a willingness to train in this regard;
Able to positively promote inclusion and have high expectations for all children;
Have values which align with our ethical leadership.
What the school offers its staff
Why Join Us?
Extensive Professional Development – We offer structured career progression, leadership training, secondment opportunities, coaching and mentoring.
Wellbeing and Staff Support – We are proud to be a Brilliant School and have been awarded the Wellbeing Award for Schools.
A Commitment to Excellence – Our most recent OFSTED inspection (February 2024) judged the academy as Good with many outstanding features.
A Fully Inclusive Environment – We foster a welcoming and diverse community where everyone feels valued.
Modern Facilities – Our staff and students benefit from excellent facilities in our purpose-built school.
Join Us
We are extremely proud of our school and warmly encourage prospective candidates to visit us. Please contact Helen to confirm your attendance or to arrange an alternative time to visit. Those who do often leave inspired by our welcoming community, supportive environment, and commitment to excellence. We also invite you to explore our Strategic Plan on our Information for Candidates page to see how we continue to thrive as a stand-alone academy, using our independence to drive innovation and success.
Safeguarding & Recruitment
The Academy is committed to equality of experience for all staff and students. We operate safer recruitment, robust child protection procedures and require evidence of DBS clearance for all employees. Checks will also be made with previous employers. Please read our Information for Candidates for additional information
Flexible working opportunities
Flexible Working Patterns Considered
Further details about the role
The Elizabethan Academy is a popular secondary school with a great reputation for supporting both students and staff. We see ourselves as a family and therefore value our staff as a priority. We value how much work our teams out into supporting our students and are dedicated to looking after their wellbeing while offering excellent training and development opportunities.
We are immensely proud to be an outward-facing and innovative stand-alone academy. Staff are given the freedom to be creative in their work while ensuring that every child receives the high-quality support they deserve. We also recognise the value of subject expertise and place strong emphasis on this through our tailored CPD programme.
Ensuring that all students are supported to have the best possible future is extremely important to us. You will be joining an incredibly welcoming team that makes a difference to children's lives every day. The academy has recently achieved the Autism and Dyslexia Friendly Kitemarks and was awarded the Wellbeing Award for Schools. We are frequently selected to pilot new initiatives by the Local Authority and have recently installed a new sensory room and outdoor classroom after being awarded funding.
This is an exciting time to join the Academy. Under the direction of a new Principal, a number of positive changes have already been implemented, with more planned in the near future to support our journey toward excellence.
Commitment to safeguarding
This information is required, including that related to warnings regarded as "spent" in order for the Academy to ensure safe recruitment and meet its obligations to safeguard children. However, you should be aware that any disciplinary history declared will not automatically prevent or inhibit appointment and will depend on the dates and circumstances related to the disciplinary action, outcomes and the type of post being applied for. Note that you are also required to include information if you were subject to a disciplinary process but resigned before it was completed.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About The Elizabethan Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1201 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Elizabethan Academy website
- Email address
- upsonh@elizabethan.notts.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01777 713705
The Elizabethan Academy is a successful 11-19 Academy full of passion, innovation and character where students and staff benefit from excellent facilities on site. We are looking to recruit colleagues to share our commitment and determination to providing a learning environment that enables all young people to thrive.
We have all-encompassing professional development with a structured path to enable career progression. This includes secondments at other schools in the East Midlands and formal leadership training and coaching.
We believe in our staff and want them to be the best they can be
Arranging a visit to The Elizabethan Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email upsonh@elizabethan.notts.sch.uk.
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