Teaching Assistant X2

**Salary**:
Grade 4

**Job type**:
Part Time, Fixed Term

**Start date**:
As soon as possible

18 March 2025

**Job overview**:
The Bishop Konstant Catholic Academy Trust comprises of three Secondary Schools and twelve Primary Schools. We have a vision for our Trust that goes beyond our individual academies and that changes our perception from **my** academy to **our** academy. Working collaboratively, each academy benefits from others’ strengths and expertise within the Trust, and practically from the services provided and procured centrally.

As a member of our team you will be supported and challenged, so that as well as contributing to students’ success and that of the School, you are personally developed in your career.

We take enormous joy and pride in being a very happy school, where pupils feel safe and cared for and know that they belong to an incredibly special family.

We are proud of our excellent reputation, which is built on outstanding pastoral care in which each individual is known, treasured and supported throughout their school journey, rich wider opportunities and excellent exam results. The relatively small size of the school as well as the way we structure learning, allow us as a staff team to genuinely know each child as an individual, enabling them to thrive and flourish.

**We are looking for someone who**:

- Will demonstrate a shared commitment to raising standards and provide support to all pupils
- Has high expectations and will encourage pupils to fulfil their potential
- Is committed to inclusion and understands pupils have differing needs
- Has awareness of young persons development and learning
- Is patient, calm and will listen to pupils views

**We can offer you**:

- A welcoming and supportive staff team
- Support and collaboration from a strong partnership of 15 schools within the Trust
- A commitment to your professional development
- Friendly and caring school and parish community
- A passionate and forward thinking Senior Leadership Team and Academy Council
- An excellent pension package
- Health and wellbeing support

The Bishop Konstant Catholic Academy Trust comprises of three Secondary Schools and twelve Primary Schools. We have a vision for our Trust that goes beyond our individual academies and that changes our perception from **my** academy to **our** academy. Working collaboratively, each academy benefits from others’ strengths and expertise within the Trust, and practically from the services provided and procured centrally.

**Closing Date: Tuesday 18th March 2025 - 9am**
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**About**St Thomas a Becket Catholic Secondary School**:
**St Thomas a Becket Catholic Secondary School**
- Barnsley Road, Sandal, Wakefield
- West Yorkshire
- WF2 6EQ
- United Kingdom

+44 192 430 3545

At St. Thomas a Becket we are proud to be a Catholic school for our whole community and want to offer each young person, whatever their background and starting point, the chance to grow and flourish spiritually, academically, physically and emotionally.

In our most recent Ofsted report (2023) where the school was rated ‘Good’ in all areas, a student is quoted as saying ‘at this school all students are loved’, which succinctly sums up the spirit, ethos and culture of St. Thomas a Beckets. As those who are truly loved and appreciated as individuals will always thrive to explore their unlimited potential, pupils and staff alike.

The school proud to provide excellent educational experience that saw us achieve some of the best outcomes in Wakefield in 2023. The P8 score achieved by St Thomas a Becket for the 2022-2023 was the highest ever recorded score for the school, and higher than the local authority average and the national average.

We are more than a school striving for academic excellence, we are a school that is creating young people who are spiritually, socially and academically ready for life beyond school in the spirit of kindness, tolerance and respect for all members of our school community.

Please read our recruitment pack for further insights in what it is like to be a member of our school community