Teaching Assistant
Sandringham School
St Albans
- £6,757 - £16,604 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- H3 pro rata, term time only (38 weeks), 2 to 4 days a week (8:50am to 3:05pm), flexibility as to days worked. Full time salary range £27,180 - £27,600.
- Job type:
- Part Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- November 2026
- Apply by:
- 12 October 2026
Job overview
11 to 22 hours per week, 2 to 4 days per week (8:50am - 3:05pm). Term time only (38 weeks).
Flexibility as to days worked
Salary: H3 pro rata, FTE annual salary £27,180 - £27,600
Actual salary: £6,757 - £13,722
Start date: November 2026, fixed term appointment until July 2027
We are seeking an enthusiastic and dedicated Teaching Assistant (TA) to join our warm and welcoming Learning Support Faculty. Every member of our department supports a diverse range of students with special educational needs, building relationships founded on mutual respect. Our large team currently consists of 10 TAs, 3 Senior TAs, a 6th form SEND lead, a Deputy SENDCo, and a SENDCo. We ensure every team member has the opportunity to play to their strengths - whether that means supporting a preferred subject, delivering 1:1 interventions outside the classroom, or applying specialist expertise within a primary area of SEND. We actively encourage our TAs to pursue training in their areas of interest, while fully supporting the long-term career aspirations of everyone in our department.
The successful candidate will:
have professional integrity
have excellent attention to detail
have the ability to work well within a team
be dedicated to support the teaching and learning of students
promote Sandringham’s ethos and values
If you feel that this could be the right next step in your career, we would love to hear from you.
Sandringham School is part of the Ambition Education Trust (AET). The Ambition Education Trust (AET) consists of eleven schools in Hertfordshire; four primary, one nursery and infants’, one juniors and five secondary. Our Trust launched in September 2024 following the amalgamation of two established Multi Academy Trusts (MATs), Alban Academies Trust and Atlas Multi Academy Trust. As a member of the AET, we are able to maximise opportunities for rewarding careers and opportunities for personal and professional development throughout our wider organisation. Sandringham, School also leads the Alban Teaching School Hub.
Application deadline: 9am on Monday, 12th October 2026
Prospective candidates are encouraged to submit their applications as soon as possible as the school reserves the right to close the advert should we feel able to appoint an appropriate candidate.
Ambition Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointment to a post at AET is subject to a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check, as well as other pre-appointment checks including an online check, as outlined in Keeping Children Safe in Education.
We are committed to the aim of ensuring that everyone who applies to work for us receives fair treatment and we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of age, disability, race, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership and caring status. We expect all our staff to demonstrate a commitment to advancing equality of opportunity and fostering good relations.
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About Sandringham School
Sandringham School is a large, highly successful, and oversubscribed mixed comprehensive school with a long-standing reputation for excellence. It has been graded Outstanding by Ofsted in every inspection since 2008, including the most recent in 2024.
Becoming an academy in 2011 and a founding member of a multi-academy trust in 2017, Sandringham now plays a leading role within the Ambition Education Trust, a cross-phase partnership of five primary and five secondary schools across Hertfordshire.
At the heart of Sandringham’s success is its distinctive learning culture. Visitors consistently remark on the exemplary behaviour, maturity, and positivity of students, and on the calm, purposeful atmosphere that pervades the school. Central to everything is a clear and inclusive mission: “Everybody can be Somebody” and our three values: Responsibility, Relationships and Respect. This philosophy underpins the school’s ethos, ensuring every young person feels valued, supported, and encouraged to achieve their very best. The same principle applies to staff: mutual respect, collaboration, and professional trust define daily life at Sandringham.
Relationships between students and staff are exceptional. Classrooms are places of curiosity and challenge, where students are confident to express their views and take an active role in shaping their learning. The Student Leadership Team plays a significant role in influencing school policy and contributing to the school’s ongoing development.
Sandringham is an eight-form entry comprehensive with over 1,800 students, including more than 600 in the Sixth Form. The Sixth Form is a beacon of excellence, popular both with existing students and those who join from other schools, drawn by its reputation for outstanding teaching, pastoral care, and results.
Sandringham also hosts the Alban Teaching School Hub, responsible for the training and development of staff across over a hundred schools in Hertfordshire. This includes Initial Teacher Training and the school regularly supports ITT staff each year, as they learn more about teaching and gain qualified teacher status.
We deliver a blended learning environment with every owns a Chromebook (laptops in the sixth form) to support their learning. We use Google Suite software to support this, together with other applications that provide an integrated service to help students manage their learning. All staff are provided with a device to allow them to carry out their responsibilities, and training to support the deliver.
The campus is developed on a continuous basis and boasts significant buildings for the arts (dance, drama, music, art) including a full-sized professional theatre, sport (indoor swimming pool, sports hall, gym, fitness suite 4g floodlit pitch, 8 tennis courts, netball courts, and 110m synthetic running track), STEM (12 fully-equipped laboratories, newly refurbished Design and Technology block, dedicated maths building) in addition to a large sixth form campus including cafeteria and coffee shop.
Staff are used to working closely together for the benefit of students, with high-performing teams in every faculty. Well-being is a high priority and the school takes every opportunity to address workload challenges and avoid unnecessary bureaucracy. Staff who work at Sandringham receive high-quality training and are rewarded with many career development opportunities. It is a really exciting and enjoyable place to work.
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