Teaching Assistants
Diverse Academies Trust, Retford, DN22 7EA24 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
24 April 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
20 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 2, Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £24,795
What skills and experience we're looking for
Specific roles and responsibilities:
- Teaching Assistants with SEND experience for primary and secondary aged children
The successful candidates will:
- Have working knowledge of working with students with SEMH and Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC) and a high level of competence in communication and interpersonal skills.
- Want to be part of our founding team and support the set-up and opening of our new academy.
- Be qualified in a relevant childcare qualification to at least NNEB, NVQ3 (or equivalent), and previous experience of working within SEN is desirable.
- Have the resolve to make a real difference to the lives of children
- Be able to communicate effectively with parents and other professionals
- Work constructively as part of a team, understanding classroom roles and responsibilities and own position within these.
- Work within a wider team to ensure the best quality education and support is provided for the children and young people attending Horizons academy
What the school offers its staff
Our employee benefits
At Diverse Academies, you’ll find yourself in a vibrant, inclusive and supportive environment, where everyone can grow, progress and achieve a fulfilling career. We offer a fantastic range of rewards and benefits, challenging and interesting work, and opportunities to achieve your potential.
In return you will benefit from:
- Enrolment into the Local Government Pension Scheme with an employer contribution of at least 14%
- Excellent Continuous Professional Development (CPD) opportunities covering technical, leadership and coaching skills via the trust’s Diverse Association for Professional Learning
- Full support and induction
- Networking opportunities across Diverse Academies
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Health and Wellbeing delivered through our occupational health provider, eyecare vouchers for a free eye test and contribution towards glasses for display screen equipment users and access to GP helpline
- Salary sacrifice schemes – electric car scheme, cycle to work, home and electronics
- Lifestyle savings - discounts and offers on gym memberships, holidays, days out, shopping, restaurants, etc
- Health cash plan (personal or family) – where you pay monthly and can claim money back on private treatments such as dental, optical and therapies (e.g. physiotherapy, osteopathy etc)
- Childcare – breakfast and after school provision
- Take a look at our rewards and benefits online
Commitment to safeguarding
Safeguarding and child protection is of the highest priority to our Trust – and it is everyone’s responsibility to ensure the safety and welfare of all our children and young people.
We have a dedicated strategic lead who works with designated safeguarding leads (DSLs) in all academies to work with leadership teams, governors and trustees to quality assure, advise and develop the highest standards of culture and compliance across our academies and throughout the organisation.
https://www.diverseacademies.org.uk/about-us/how-we-work/safeguarding-and-child-protection/
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 Diverse Academies Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- office@horizons-ac.org.uk
Founded in September 2011, Diverse Academies is a multi-academy trust consisting of 14 academies – six secondary, six primary and two special – across Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire.
We have a shared sixth form centre facility in Hucknall, which is managed in partnership with the National Church of England Academy. Queen Elizabeth’s in Mansfield, is a faith academy under the Church of England and is rooted in a Christian ethos. The academy works in partnership with the Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham to provide an education that is distinctively Christian, and is inclusive for students from all backgrounds, of the Christian faith, other faiths and no faith.
The Trust Board provides overall support and challenge to academies through the leadership and management and governance structures within the Diverse Academies.
Head office location
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