Teaching Assistant (Unqualified)
Archway School, Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL5 4AX16 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
1 June 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
14 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Grade 3 Pts 4-6
What skills and experience we're looking for
Teaching Assistant
(Unqualified)
Grade 3 Pts 4-6
£24,404 - £25,183 per annum, pro rata (pay award pending)
Actual annual salary £14,149 - £14,601 (pay award pending)
25 hours a week, term time plus an additional week for Inset/twilights/meetings
(39 weeks per year)
Closing date: Sunday 1 June 2025
Start date: 1 September 2025
Archway school is seeking to appoint a Teaching Assistant (Unqualified) for 25
hours a week, term time only plus one week for Inset, twilight training
sessions and meetings. This is an excellent development opportunity for the
right candidate, as training can be provided to become a Qualified Teaching
Assistant.
Your actual hours of work will be from Monday to Friday from 9.10am until
3.10pm with a 20-minute unpaid morning break and a 40-minute unpaid lunch
break.
Our school population includes young people who have special educational needs
and disabilities (SEND) in each of the four main categories: communication and interaction, cognition and
learning, social emotional and mental health, and sensory/physical needs. We
currently have thirty-three students on roll with an Education Heath and Care
Plan (EHC Plan) across years 7 to 11.
The school prides itself on its inclusive attitude and green credentials. Our
ethos of Relational Practice is key to the ambition for all students to have
the opportunity to succeed. The school is committed to ensuring that students with SEND make progress in line
with their peers.
What the school offers its staff
Successful candidates will benefit from:
- Substantial training opportunities.
- Use of school facilities such as swimming pool and gym.
- After school activities such as staff Pilates.
- Electric car charging points at an additional cost.
- One paid ‘wellbeing day’ per academic year, which can be booked off during term time.
Archway school is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from people with protected characteristics such as age, gender reassignment, being married or in a civil partnership, being pregnant or on maternity leave, disability, race including colour, nationality or ethnicity, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and therefore expects all staff and volunteers to share this same commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check and this position is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974.
As part of our due diligence for safer recruitment, the school may carry out online searches for shortlisted candidates to help identify any incidents or issues which may need to be explored at interview. The searches would be made on open-source information and may include, but will not be limited to, the main social networking sites, including Instagram and Facebook.
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
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 Archway School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 997 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Archway School website
- Email address
- zoefield@archwayschool.net
Archway is a maintained, co-educational comprehensive school for students aged between 11 and 18 years old. We currently have 916 students on the roll, of whom 132 are in Sixth Form.
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