Teaching Assistant

**Salary**

Grade 3 £25,588, actual salary £21848.22

**Contractual hours**

37

**Basis**

Full Time

**Job type**

Support Staff - Educational

**Location**

Yeoman Park Academy

**Job category**

Teaching Assistant

**Date posted**

03/09/2025

**Job reference**

R05202

Working Hours: 37 hours per week, Term Time Only

Contract: Permanent

**Salary**: Grade 3

We have an exciting opportunity for a skilled and motivated individual to be a Teaching Assistant at Yeoman Park Academy. The academy offers high quality, inclusive education for young people aged 3 - 18 who experience complex learning difficulties. The academy is committed to child centered learning and works closely with parents and carers to prepare pupils for the next stage of their lives.

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 and we work together to ensure our children achieve their very best.

Please contact Stacey Foster, Business Manager to arrange a visit, or for further information.

Location: Yeoman Park Academy, Park Hall Road, Mansfield Woodhouse, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, NG19 8PS

The opportunity

We know that our staff team are our greatest resource. Therefore, we invest heavily in them and we know that this has helped us to develop our stable, supportive and high performing teams.

Essential:

- Display commitment to protection and safeguarding of children and young people
- An understanding of specific learning difficulties and or physical impairments.

Desirable:

- Work constructively as part of a team, understanding classroom roles and responsibilities and own position within these

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.
- A strong and caring ethos among staff and students.
- Networking opportunities across Diverse Academies.
- Salary sacrifice opportunities such as car, cycle and technology schemes.
- Staff discounts and offers on gym membership, holidays, days out, cinema tickets, restaurants and top online shopping sites including instant voucher codes.
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme - emotional, financial and legal support to both you and your family by a team of qualified professionals.
- 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.

Applications

Closing date: 21stSeptember 2025

Start date: November 2025

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 special settings, we share a common mission to nurture curiosity, develop wellbeing and empower children and young people to go beyond their aspirations. Together, we believe we can make a difference in our diverse communities, and in the lives of those who learn with us and work with us.

We empower. We respect. We care.