Teaching Assistant - Full-time

Leigh Academies Trust

• Ref:KCC-F63-255-S
• Posted:07/05/2025
• Pay:Actual salary £17,728 per annum
• Start Date:September 2025
• App Close Date:19/05/2025 at 23:45
• Interviews:TBC

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Marden Primary Academy has an exciting opportunity to appoint an enthusiastic and motivated Teaching Assistant to join our highly collaborative and supportive team in September 2025. Our teaching support team is pivotal to our success in the classroom and supporting children to reach their full potential.

Our successful candidate will be:

• Enthusiastic, energetic and adaptable
• Caring
• Capable of working independently and in a team
• Able to motivate and support pupils individually or in small groups
• Experienced in working with children or in a primary school setting

Join our team because:

• We care - about our pupils through our human scale approach to education, our staff and their well-being and the communities that we serve, driven by our high ideals and strong moral values.
• We have boundless ambition - to achieve excellence for all and create confident young adults with high levels of resilience and integrity.
• We work together - as one team in the belief that we are greater than the sum of our parts. We foster an enterprising culture through collaboration and in close partnership with industry and other educators.
• We keep getting better - using our ‘can-do’ attitude towards continuous improvement and innovation.

All of the staff at Marden are committed to ensuring that the school keeps its friendly, caring atmosphere whilst ensuring that children develop a broad range of life skills. We want all the children to become confident, independent learners who show respect for one another and can talk articulately about their feelings and ideas.

This is a permanent role offering an actual salary of £17,728 per annum (£24,404 full time equivalent) based on 31.25 hours per week, Term Time + 1 week inset.

Information about the trust

As of 1st September 2024, our Trust comprises 33 geographically organised academies (17 secondaries, 14 primaries and 2 special) educating more than 24,000 students and employing 4,000 talented staff. Currently, 16 of our academies are considered to be “Outstanding” which is 53% of those which have been inspected whilst part of the Trust. The Trust is establishing three ‘clusters’ of academies: LAT Central; LAT West; LAT North. In addition, the Trust is responsible for one of the region’s biggest initial teaching training organisations, a large teaching school hub and is an accredited apprenticeship provider. Our future plans are found in our Vision 2030 document available on our website.

As part of Leigh Academies Trust, you will have ample opportunity to collaborate with your peers both within the academy and across the whole Trust. This is an important part of our vision as we know through experience that we perform better when we work together. You are supported to undertake regular self-development to continue your professional development and hopefully progress further within the organisation.

Click here to view the benefits available to all LAT employees from day one.

Our commitment to safeguarding: Leigh Academies Trust and all of our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair, robust and consistent recruitment process across all academies and business units which is inline with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates - you can read more about this in our Recruitment Guidance. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.

Our commitment to equality and diversity: As a Trust, we are passionate about diversity and recognise that as individuals, we all bring something unique to the role regardless of any protected characteristics which is why we treat all of our people equally, without compromise. We are committed to providing equality and fairness throughout our recruitment and employment practices and not discriminating on any grounds.

Job Contact Information

• Name:Holly Neve
• Address:LAT Head Office,
  Carnation Road,
  Rochester,
  Kent,
  ME2 2SX
• Telephone: 01634 412 258
• Email: Joinus@LATrust.org.uk

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