Teaching Assistant Level 1

**Job profile**:

- The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.

**Job details**:
**Job reference**

REQ00004408

**Date posted**

18/02/2025

**Application closing date**

14/03/2025

**Location**

Scunthorpe (Melior Community Academy)

**Salary**

**Annual weeks**

38 (term time only).

**Contractual hours**

29

**Basis**

Full time

**Job category/type**

Education Support

**Teaching Assistant Level 1**:
**Job description**
- Melior Community Academy are looking to appoint a Teaching Assistant level 1 to join our academy in April 2025 on a permanent, part time basis.
- Do you want to work for a Trust that is transforming educational outcomes for students in some of the most deprived areas in the North of England? If so, this could be the role for you.
- **Your new role**
- As a Teaching Assistant Level 1, you will work under the direct instruction of teaching/senior staff, usually in a classroom with the teacher. You will support pupils to ensure they can access learning and provide general support to the teacher in the management of pupils and the classroom.
- Please see the job description attached for the essential criteria and more information.
- If you feel you have the necessary skills and experience required for this position, then we would very much like to hear from you.
- **Your new school**
- Melior Community Academy is a coeducational secondary school located in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire. The Academy opened in January 2013 for students aged 11 to 16. We are a fully inclusive Academy with a distinctively warm ethos and continue to have the highest aspirations for, and expectations of, our students. The school has recently been rebuilt and facilities are excellent, located within easy commuting distance of the main urban areas this is a great place to work.
- We are looking to recruit well qualified and talented staff who will complement and add to a dynamic team and who have all the right attributes to make a valid contribution to the wider life of the school and ensure that students are making the right progress.
- **Why join us?**
- Staff across the trust are talented and enthusiastic, and all contribute to the trust’s success story.
- This is a fantastic opportunity to join an outstanding team within a high-performing multi academy trust with exciting career prospects for successful applicants.
- As a Trust, we have developed an extensive range of employee benefits that focus on your **Financial, Physical and Mental Wellbeing**. Here are just a few examples in each area
- **Financial Wellbeing**:

- Membership to either the **Teachers’ Pension Scheme** or **the Local Government Pension Scheme**:

- **Technology scheme and Vehicle Leasing Scheme**:

- Access to an **extensive** **discounts platform**

**Physical Wellbeing**:

- **24/7 access to an online GP** or Advanced Nurse Practitioner for you & your household
- **Gym & fitness discounts**:

- **Cycle to Work** scheme*
- **Free annual flu jab**

**Mental Wellbeing**:

- Access to an industry-leading **Employee Assistance Programme**:

- **Menopause Support Service**:

- Trained **Mental Health First Aiders** in all our settings
- _Subject to ensuring NMW is maintained_
The Trust reserves the right to close adverts early_
- In accordance with DfE Keeping Children Safe in Education, an online search will be completed on all shortlisted applicants prior to interview. Any relevant information will be discussed further with the applicant during the recruitment process._