Teaching Assistant

Waterside Academy, Liverpool, Merseyside, L30 2QQ

14 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  28 November 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  14 November 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £25,583.00 - £25,989.00 Annually (FTE) Actual salary £22,200 (term time only plus 1 week)

Teaching Assistant job summary

Your Role:

As a member of our support staff, you’ll play a vital part in helping our students achieve their potential. Your responsibilities will include:

• Supporting Pupils: Supervise and provide personalised support, ensuring students feel safe, valued, and engaged in learning

• Building Positive Relationships: Develop meaningful interactions based on trust and understanding, tailored to each pupil’s individual needs.

• Encouraging Inclusion: Encourage pupils to interact with others and engage in activities led by the teacher

• Promoting Growth: Support pupils in building confidence, independence, and self-esteem.

• Working Collaboratively: Use ICT effectively in the classroom and work alongside teachers to deliver specialised learning and therapy programs

What we can offer:

• A warm, inclusive, and supportive team environment

• Opportunities for professional development and training

• A meaningful role where your work has lasting impact on young lives

• The chance to work alongside skilled professionals, including SEN specialists

Closing date: 28th November 2025Waterside Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all pupils. Successful candidates will be required to undergo an Enhance Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, reference checks from previous employers and a health screening.

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 Waterside Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• School size: 87 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Waterside Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/impact-liverpool

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