Teaching Assistant - Fixed Term

Mascalls Academy , Paddock Wood

• Ref:KCC886-5439-245S
• Posted:16/07/2025
• Pay:Actual salary £18,559 per annum
• Start Date:September 2025
• App Close Date:21/07/2025 at 23:45
• Interviews:TBC

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Are you looking for a role where every day is unique, challenging, and incredibly rewarding? A job that offers a true sense of achievement, knowing you've made a tangible difference to young people's lives? If so, we'd love to hear from you!

Mascalls Academy has an exciting opportunity for a knowledgeable and efficient individual to join us as a Teaching Assistant. This role is perfect for:

• Experienced TAs looking to bring their expertise to a supportive new environment.
• Individuals passionate about starting a career in education, perhaps considering future teacher training, who want to gain valuable first-hand classroom experience.
• Graduates eager to make a direct impact while exploring a pathway into teaching.

We are particularly keen to hear from candidates who have previous experience working with pupils who have a diagnosis of ASD, ADHD, SEMH, or SLCN (Speech, Language & Communication Needs).

As a Teaching Assistant, you'll work closely with selected students on a 1:1 basis and support small groups both in mainstream classes and in our inclusion area via intervention sessions. You'll also collaborate with teachers to differentiate resources and help set and monitor targets. This is your chance to be part of a team that is genuinely changing lives and positively transforming our local community.

What are we looking for?

• Passion & Dedication: A sincere commitment to sharing our values and driving continuous improvement.
• Collaborative Spirit: Someone who thrives in a professional and supportive team environment.
• Foundational Skills: Educated to GCSE level (or equivalent) in literacy and numeracy.
• Experience: While previous experience of working with young people is preferable, it's not essential – your dedication and willingness to learn are key!

This is a fixed term position offering an actual salary of £18,559 per annum (£23,656 full time equivalent) based on 33.75 hours per week, Term Time + 1 week of inset.

Do you know a great Teaching Assistant who would like to hear about opportunities with Leigh Academies Trust? If so, make a referral today for the chance to receive £100 as a 'thank you'. Simply complete the referral form by clicking here. T&C's apply.

Information about the school

It is my pleasure to welcome you to the Mascalls Academy community. As a successful and popular academy, we provide our students with the opportunities within the classroom and beyond to develop into young people who will contribute positively to our local, national and global communities.

At Mascalls Academy, we offer an incredibly wide curriculum, there are twenty seven different subjects being taught at GCSE level and twenty nine subjects at A level. We are also proud to be an International Baccalaureate World School offering the Middle Years Programme in Years 7-9 which is designed to develop happy, inquisitive, rounded, independent, globally aware and resilient young people. Our co-curriculum offers an incredible eighteen lunchtime clubs and twenty one after school clubs alongside teams in football, netball, rugby, volleyball and many more.

We achieve academic excellence and promote the Arts, our Creative Arts National Area of Excellence develops the skills and confidence our students need to succeed through visual art, dance, drama and music. There really is an opportunity for everyone to be happy and succeed here and that underpins the very core of our purpose.

Whilst our academy is large, we support our students by breaking it down into smaller schools, known as colleges. Each college is roughly the size of the average primary school and is headed by a large and dedicated leadership team devoted to the academic and pastoral care of the students within it. We prioritise mental health and well being alongside academic achievement through our on-site provision of Place2be, offering full time individual and group therapy sessions for those who need it. In partnership with parents we work closely through the seven-year journey from the very first day to the confident, knowledgeable and disciplined individuals leaving our academy as young adults.

We have incredibly high expectations of behaviour. Our students are happy, they are polite and show respect. Our behaviour systems promote a discipline within our students that prepares them fully for the world beyond the academy. As an academy, as a community we achieve academic excellence, develop strength of individual character supported by our culture of aspiration and celebrating success. Our rewards system recognises the success of our students through achievement points, Golden Tickets, half colours and full colours. Achievement and progress are rewarded within every lesson.

What underpins all that we do is that we truly care, Mascalls Academy really is a community in the truest sense. Developing successful and happy young people requires a team, and strong and supportive communication between all members of our community is essential to ensure this. Our students are balanced and compassionate young people who care for one another and have pride in what we all achieve each and every day.

Thank you for reading and I hope we will be welcoming you to the Mascalls Academy community in the future.

Job Contact Information

• Name:Talent Team, Leigh Academies Trust
• Address:Carnation Road, Strood, Kent, ME2 2SX
• Telephone: 01634 412 258
• Email: Joinus@LATrust.org.uk

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• Job Description | Teaching Assistant | Mascalls Academy