Teaching Assistant X3

Madeley High School, Crewe, Cheshire, CW3 9JJ

5 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  19 June 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  12 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 1, Key stage 2, Key stage 3, Key stage 4
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Grade 4 £24,405-£25,183 FTE (Pay award pending)

Teaching Assistant X3 job summary

We are seeking to appoint three outstanding Teaching Assistants to support classes, small groups or individual students across the curriculum. The roles will involve collaborative planning with class teachers and communication with pupils and parents to maximise progress. In return you will join a supportive, forward-thinking and inclusive team with a relentless focus on improving outcomes for SEN and disadvantaged pupils.

Experience of working with SEN students and a willingness to learn and adapt is essential. Applications from colleagues with primary or special school experience would also be welcome. We need people with commitment and a dedication for special needs to join the team at this innovative and forward-looking Multi Academy Trust.

This is a rare opportunity to join a school that has been hailed as a beacon of excellence. Our recent Ofsted inspection (Feb 2025) was nothing short of phenomenal, with inspectors blown away by the exceptional standards of teaching, leadership, and student achievement.

Why Madeley?

• One of the top-performing schools in Staffordshire - our GCSE results are exceptional, with Maths ranked number 1 in the county and overall Progress 8 scores significantly above the national average.
• Oversubscribed and thriving - Madeley is the number one school of choice in the region, receiving 299 applications for September 2025, with 190 as first-choice preferences.
• An electrifying culture of excellence - students cannot speak highly enough about their school; they are inspired, ambitious, and driven to succeed.
• An expertly crafted and engaging curriculum - our curriculum is described as "ambitious, immersive, and designed to excite and engage pupils", ensuring hands-on, real-world experiences.
• Innovative and forward-thinking leadership - our self-evaluation was described as "pinpoint accurate", our approach to teaching "exemplary", and our relentless drive for success embedded in every decision we make.
• A school that feels like home - students feel safe, valued, and driven to exceed their own expectations, supported by a team that goes above and beyond every single day.

At Madeley, we are proud of our culture of high achievement, collaboration, and continuous improvement. You will be part of a vibrant professional community that values initiative, encourages innovation, and supports your development.

Our recent Ofsted inspection (Feb 2025) was nothing short of phenomenal, with inspectors blown away by the exceptional standards of teaching, leadership, and student achievement.

Take this opportunity to be part of an inspiring journey - where your expertise, passion, and innovation will make a lasting impact!

Candidates who are interested in the post are more than welcome to contact the school for an informal discussion or arrange a visit to the school, please contact us (details can be found on advert attachment).

Shaw Education Trust are a thriving mix of diverse and growing schools including Primary, Secondary and Special Schools all working together to improve the lives of young people in our communities. We are sponsored by Shaw Trust a charity organisation that focuses on transforming lives. We’re a growing group of dynamically awesome academies providing education to children of all ages and abilities. Staff across our team of schools are dedicated to ensuring that every child has the opportunity to be successful, whatever their starting point in life.

In our secondary schools, we pride ourselves on our innovative approach to curriculum design, to ensure all our schools have breadth and ambition for all students, regardless of their starting points and barriers. Standard curriculum models don’t always engage all students, so we constantly seek to innovate and provide better opportunities to develop both knowledge and skills for life. We want our students to believe their curriculum is bold, exciting, purposeful, and ultimately leads to something meaningful for them. Some examples of our innovation include moving towards an extended school day, to provide a world class enrichment programme and more opportunities for essential skills like reading and cultural capital. We are also introducing vocational and technical pathways, which run through the normal

school curriculum but attract support from leading employers and universities to develops work-readiness in our students, so that they can progress onto T Levels and apprenticeships.

We are currently at an exciting point in their evolution, with collaboration at the heart of our collective endeavour. We don’t operate in silos: we value the power of the pack and strive to collaborate as a collective, ensuring no school or colleague is left behind. We are currently co-constructing an aligned curriculum across all EBacc curriculum subjects,

to create a world class curriculum, rich in powerful knowledge and skills. This is driving up standards through the sharing of the very best practice, whilst allowing each school sufficient flexibility for autonomy to do what is right for their local context. A by-product of this approach has been the reduction in planning workload for colleagues, meaning they can spend more time on the things that matter and fostering strong relationships with pupils and delivery of the curriculum.

Shaw Education Trust offer the following employee benefits with your Teaching or Support Staff employment:

• An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (Support Staff) / Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff)
• Support Staff only   based on working full time, all year - Generous holiday entitlement from your first day of employment (37 days holiday rising to 39 days after 5 years’ service including Bank Holidays)
• Electric Car Scheme: Environmentally friendly vehicles with our electric car scheme.
• Access to Medicash Health & Wellbeing Plan: Enjoy health services designed to support your well-being.
• Free DiscountForTeachers Scheme for all staff (Support and Teaching), Exclusive discounts to save money with a wide selection of discounts and exclusive offers from hundreds of the biggest brands.
• Free Eye Tests
• Cycle to work scheme
• Access to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help you grow, contribute and flourish in your role and in the Trust.

We know  our people  are the key to our success and so we’re committed to ensuring the  employment experience  at  Shaw Education Trust  is  a  rewarding  one.

Colleagues within the Trust benefit from:  Access to a full range of courses both in-house and professionally accredited. These courses include all of the National Professional Qualifications – NPQH, NPQSL, NPQEYL, NPQLL, NPQLT, NPQLTD, NPQLBC are all delivered by the Shaw Education Trust as a delivery partner for Ambition Institute. In addition, we provide access to the NPQEL for Executive Leaders.

• Experienced leadership and subject-specific support.
• Guidance from former HMIs and serving Ofsted Inspectors within the Trust.
• Access to the Trust’s Institute of Education and SCITT.
• Opportunities to work with different schools within the Trust as a Professional Advocate.
• Participating in peer reviews.
• Access to a suite of online courses.
• Placement projects within our family of schools.

Actual Salary: £18,685-£19,280

Working Hours: 32.5 hours per week 38 Term time weeks plus 5 Inset Days (39 weeks per year total)

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

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About Madeley High School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: Up to 675 pupils
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/madeley-high-school-crewe

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