Teaching Assistant
Shire Oak Academy
Walsall
- EGP 20,491 - EGP 21,146 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- Salary: Grade 3 (SCP 4-6)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 02 February 2026
- Apply by:
- 18 January 2026
Job overview
Teaching Assistant
Salary: Grade 3 (NJC SCP 4-6)
Hours: 35 Hours
Contract type: Permanent
Reporting to: Assistant Headteacher/SENDCo
Responsible for: Students with additional needs (as directed)
Main purpose:
The Teaching Assistant will support other staff (particularly the classroom teacher) in ensuring students with additional needs have barriers to learning removed. They will do this by:
• Providing exceptional in class/out of class support to students in their care
• Have excellent relationships with students
• Ensure that they adapt the curriculum so that students with additional needs have full access to the curriculum.
Duties and Responsibilities
Support to Teacher
• Provide structured support in accordance with specific work programmes/Schemes of Work/Medium
Term Plans designed and supervised by individual teachers.
• Support the SENDCo in the development and implementation of Individual Learning Plans/Teir Plans.
• Assist in maintaining classroom discipline through the implementation of the Academy’s behaviour management strategies.
• Provide support to students to achieve learning goals, outlined in Learning Plans/Key Working/EHCP’s.
• Assist the teacher with the planning of learning activities.
• Assist the teacher in monitoring students’ responses to learning activities and accurately record achievement/progress as directed.
• Provide detailed and regular feedback to teachers on students’ achievement, progress, problems etc.
• Undertake appropriate basic admin tasks.
Support to Students
• Accompany teaching staff and students on visits, trips and out of Academy activities as required.
• Encourage students to interact with others and engage in activities in/out of the classroom.
• Assist children in matters of personal needs and their general health including first aid and welfare
matters.
• To act as a Key Worker for the student and be responsible for setting and monitoring weekly targets.
• Ensure regular communication is made with parents/carers.
• Provide general support to students ensuring their safety, by complying with good H&S practice.
• Update Provision Maps to ensure that students provisions are clear and costed effectively.
Support to Curriculum
• Assist the teacher in the preparation and development of agreed curriculum activities/materials.
• To provide support in literacy/numeracy/SEN strategies
• Support the use of ICT in learning activities and develop students’ competence and independence in its use.
• Adapting the curriculum to meet the needs of individual students.
• Deliver targeted and planned interventions as directed by the SENDCo.
• Support relevant clubs and activities eg Homework Club/Breakfast Club.
Support to Academy (this list is not exhaustive)
• Promote and safeguard the welfare of children and young persons you are responsible for or come into
contact with.
• Organise paperwork and information for the Annual Review process.
• Be aware of and comply with policies and procedures relating to child protection, health, safety and
security, confidentiality and data protection, reporting all concerns to an appropriate person.
• Ensure all students have equal access to opportunities to learn and develop.
• Liaise effectively with teachers/parents/carers, welfare officers, health visitors and other professional
staff as part of the routine consultative process.
• Contribute to the overall ethos/work/aims of the Academy.
• Attend relevant meetings as required.
• Participate in training and other learning activities and performance development as required.
• Assist with the supervision of students out of lesson times, including before and after the Academy day
and at lunchtimes
Please note that this is illustrative of the general nature and level of responsibility of the role. It is not a comprehensive list of all tasks that the Teaching Assistant will carry out. The postholder may be required to do
other duties appropriate to the level of the role, as directed by the Executive or Associate Headteacher.
At Shire Oak Academy, we will invest in you and support you to reach your potential. As a school we are only as good as the people we work with and to ensure that we get the best from our young people, we need to make sure that we also get the best from our staff. Relationships matter and this is at the heart of what we do every day in our school and as one of 12 schools within the Mercian Trust.
Shire Oak Academy is not the easier school to work in currently, but we encourage you to visit to see we are far more than our most recent Ofsted report. We have a new Leadership Team, led by experienced Headteacher Matthew Everett and we would welcome applications from those wishing to join us on the exciting journey that Shire Oak is currently on. We are a community secondary school in Walsall Wood and proud of our inclusivity. Our ethos is built upon #BeIncredible and we accept that young people are going to make mistakes, but through positive interactions and support we will help to ensure that they fall less often and can reflect and learn from their mistakes and Be Incredible in all that they do . Through our House System, and form tutors, we provide the care and support that is needed for all individuals and their families, including healthy competition. Everyone within the academy is expected to be an active member of their house, students and staff alike!
As well as offering a knowledge rich curriculum, which includes the full spectrum of creative subjects, we also offer an extensive enrichment and extra-curricular programme. Our drama shows are as good as what you would see in the local theatres, our sports teams are committed and driven taking part in local and regional competitions, and our wide array of trips provide awe and wonder for our young people. If there is an opportunity to improve the cultural capital of our young people, we will always be open to ideas.
The design of our building is unique, a huge campus at the highest point in Walsall with incredible views and huge open spaces, with top of the range facilities, including sport, technology and photography spaces.
Come and see what Shire Oak Academy has to offer, you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
For a more detailed look at our Academy access our website.
Further details are available by contacting the Headteacher’s PA by e-mail on s.read@soa.merciantrust.org.uk
The Mercian Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Pre-employment checks include an enhanced disclosure and barring service check as a requirement of this post. Our Safeguarding Policy is available on our website, and we encourage applicants to review it before applying.
This position is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check (formerly CRB) under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Further details regarding this check are available from the school
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About Shire Oak Academy
- Shire Oak Academy
- Lichfield Road, Walsall Wood, Walsall
- West Midlands
- WS9 9PA
- United Kingdom
Our vision, our aspirations
To provide our learners with a world class education which will prepare and equip each individual to take a contributing place in 21st century society.
The school’s aims
The Governors and staff of Shire Oak Academy aim to do their best to enable students to give of their best and to achieve their best – spiritually, morally, socially, intellectually and physically. Governors and members of staff aspire to achieve this aim by:
1. developing the individual talents of all students to their fullest potential, thereby enabling them to gain the best
results and qualifications of which they are capable;
2. engendering a sense of personal worth and physical well-being, enabling students to become confident, self-
reliant, self-disciplined and responsible in an environment that offers support, guidance and counselling, as
necessary;
3. creating an enjoyable, lively and creative process of teaching and learning;
4. promoting high standards of behaviour, good personal relationships and a respect for the individual, whatever his
or her age, abilities, race, background or creed;
5. providing an environment in which all members of staff experience a sense of professional well-being and are
willing to give of their best at all times;
6. providing a caring and supportive environment in which all students may develop personal qualities, attitudes and
values to prepare them for taking up an adult place in society as both responsible and responsive citizens.
7. maintaining a vital and relevant curriculum, having a sound balance between the development of skills and the
acquisition of knowledge and understanding.
8. recognising the individuality of all students, to encourage that success is to be shared and to celebrate it in a wide
variety of ways.
All students need to accept that the above aims are only achieved by their:
• coming to understand themselves and developing self esteem.
• having a respect for themselves, others and for their environment.
• appreciating the value of learning and achieving to their highest levels by consistent effort, enthusiasm, creativity
and excellence.
• understanding that self-discipline is based on an underlying concern for others.
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