Teaching Assistant

**Salary**

Annual salary, £25,588. Actual Salary, Term time only £21,848

** Contractual hours**

37

** Basis**

Full Time

** Job type**

Support Staff - Educational

** Location**

Yeoman Park Academy

** Job category**

Teaching Assistant

** Date posted**

17/12/2025

** Job reference**

R05326

Yeoman Park Academy are looking for a highly motivated and dedicated Teaching Assistant to join our talented and supportive team. We would very much recommend and welcome you for a visit so you can meet us and understand our community.

Start date: February 2026

Contract: Grade 4, Temporary until 24th July 2026

**Why join Yeoman Park Academy as a Teaching Assistant?**

This role will be to provide dedicated 1:1 support for a learner throughout the school day, ensuring their complex medical, physical, and learning needs are met safely and effectively. The role involves facilitating access to learning through highly personalised approaches, managing medical interventions, and supporting the learner’s holistic development in line with their Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP).

- Provide continuous individualised support to enable the learner’s engagement in sensory and experiential learning activities.
- Implement personalised learning programmes under the guidance of teaching staff.
- Manage their medical interventions, including suctioning, oxygen administration, nebulisers, PEG feeding, and chest physiotherapy, in accordance with medical plans.
- Monitor the learner’s health and wellbeing throughout the day, responding immediately to signs of distress or clinical deterioration.
- Support specialist moving and handling, including hoisting and positioning, alongside an additional adult as required.
- Maintain accurate records of medical interventions, positioning schedules, and learning progress.
- Adapt resources and activities to meet the learner’s profound learning needs within the Engagement Model.
- Liaise effectively with teachers, therapists, and healthcare professionals to ensure coordinated support.
- Promote the learner’s safety, dignity, and comfort at all times, including during personal care routines.
- Facilitate their participation in school life, including trips and activities, ensuring all risk assessments and medical protocols are followed.
- Uphold safeguarding responsibilities and contribute to a positive, inclusive environment.

Essential

- NVQ Level 3 for Teaching Assistants or equivalent qualification/experience.
- GCSE English and Maths (Grade C or above).
- Recent experience working with children with complex medical and physical needs.
- Training or willingness to undertake training in suctioning, oxygen therapy, PEG feeding, and moving and handling.

Desirable

- Previous experience supporting pupils within the Engagement Model.
- Knowledge of assistive technology for communication and learning.
- Understanding of sensory-based learning approaches.

**Why join Yeoman Park Academy?**

We are a specialist academy for children aged 3-19 with severe, complex, profound and multiple learning difficulties based in Mansfield Woodhouse with 138 pupils. In our latest Ofsted inspection, we were rated ‘outstanding’.

Our academy has a caring and supportive staff team who believe in every child. The future for all children and families who attend Yeoman Park Academy is bright, and we know that when we work together, we can ensure our children achieve their very best.

**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 21.8%
- Excellent Continuous Professional Development (CPD) opportunities covering technical, leadership and coaching skills via the trust’s Diverse Association for Professional Learning
- Employee Assistance Programme
- GP helpline
- Health and wellbeing advice and support
- Eyecare vouchers
- Salary sacrifice schemes - 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

**Applications**

**Closing date: 5th January 2025**

**Interview date: January 2026, date to be confirmed.**

**Start date: February 2026**

**About Diverse Academies Trust**

Diverse Academies is a multi-academy trust with a vision to inspire, to raise aspirations and to create brighter tomorrows. Across primary, secondary and spec