Teaching Support Assistant
Wimbledon College
Merton
- £31,524 - £32,931 pro rata
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- NJC scale 5 point 12-15 [35 hours per week for 40 weeks per year]
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- 1/9/2025
- Apply by:
- 30 June 2025
Job overview
Wimbledon College currently have an exciting opportunity to join the team as a Teaching Support Assistant, supporting teaching staff with responsibility for the development and educational provision of learners.
You’ll be responsible for providing lesson supervision to cover for absent teachers. Other duties include providing support for teachers in their daily work such as assisting with preparation of resources, setting up classroom displays and general administration support for a department or faculty. This can also include working with the 6th Form Team and supporting pupils by supervising the study halls. Experience of working with teenagers is desirable (either paid or unpaid capacity), preferably in a secondary education setting. Also suitable for graduates looking to gain experience in education.
Job requirements
Skills & Knowledge
- A minimum of 3 GCSEs at C grade or above, including English and Maths
- Experience of class supervision and assisting with lesson provision to achieve positive learning outcomes [desirable]
- Good written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work in tandem with teaching staff
- Ability to be empathetic and understanding to the needs of teenagers
Duties
- Term-time hours (based on 40 weeks per year: term time plus 10 days) 8am to 4pm Monday to Friday
- To undertake cover, providing lesson supervision in the absence of a teacher
- Supervise 6th form Study Hall
- To support sport and activity sessions
- To register students, accompany them to assemblies, encourage their full attendance at all lessons and their participation in other aspects of school life
- Provide detailed verbal and written feedback on progress, pupil responses to learning activities and pupil behaviour to teachers
- Actively seek information regarding, and utilise, the range of activities, courses, organisations and individuals to provide support for students to broaden and enrich their learning
- Demonstrate and promote the positive values, attitudes and behaviour. Establish productive working relationships with students, acting as a role model and setting high expectations
- Setting up displays of pupils’ work
- Cataloguing, preparing, issuing and maintaining equipment and materials
- Stocktaking and ordering resources
- To comply with school policies and procedures. Including safeguarding, health, safety and data security. Reporting any concerns to an appropriate person.
- To be aware of confidential issues linked to home/pupil/teacher/schoolwork and to keep confidences appropriately
- To undertake other appropriate tasks as directed by line managers or the Headteacher
Why join us?
- Term time plus working (Based on NJC scale 5 point 12-15 £31,524 p.a. FTE*)
- Holiday Pay 6.6 weeks p.a., spread over monthly payments: Pro rata Salary £28,371* p.a.)* Pay award pending
- A warm friendly community where all are respected and valued.
- Good opportunities for personal and career development.
- Pension Scheme.
- Free access to employee assistance programme.
- Situated minutes from Wimbledon Common and Village, with exceptional facilities on site for staff including swimming pool and gym.
- Great transport links with Bus, Train, Tube and Tram stops nearby.
We will withdraw the advert if a suitable candidate is found in advance of the deadline so please apply as soon as possible.
Wimbledon College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people. The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.
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About Wimbledon College
Wimbledon College is a popular and oversubscribed school which prides itself on its exam results at both GCSE and A level. As a Jesuit school, our ethos can be summed up by St Ignatius Loyola’s vision for Jesuit schools as being “for improvement in living and learning for the greater glory of God and the common good.” Central to St Ignatius’ vision and to the College is the education of the whole person, providing each pupil with the opportunity to strive for excellence in all that they do.
Wimbledon College aims to create a caring and disciplined community in which pupils will feel secure and are motivated to be involved in their studies and in a wide range of school activities, to encourage pupils to recognise the best in themselves and to work hard to develop all of their talents, and to instil in its pupils an awareness of the needs of others and a commitment to putting their gifts and energies at the service of others.
Staff Development
At Wimbledon College, we believe that professional development is an essential and inherent part of your role regardless of the stage you are at in your career or the position you hold. This results in bespoke CPD journeys based on your current position and the trajectory you would like your career to go in. Every staff member is supported along that journey. Through a combination of internal and external CPD opportunities staff are able to develop their own skills and competencies and then have the opportunity to share those with colleagues from the College and across the borough.
We use a range of resources and strategies within and outside the College to achieve this:
· We have staff completing external leadership courses such as NPQs and Merton specific Leadership Courses
· We engage with a wide range of organisations, including UCL, Bluesky and PixL to support the delivery of our extensive professional development programme for both career progression and skills development tailored to individual needs
· We have a coaching programme to allow both teaching and non teaching staff to share best practice and offer career advice and guidance.
· We have in-school groups that work collaboratively on projects around a chosen topic such as promoting literacy across the curriculum
If you are starting your teaching career with us, we partner with Teach Wimbledon and Roehampton University to welcome both Schools’ Direct and PGCE students. We also have a comprehensive Early Career Teacher support system where you will receive an individual mentor, reduced timetable and opportunities to embed your learning.
We fully appreciate the importance of training for support staff and have a generous budget to ensure that external courses are available in addition to in school training for all interested support staff.
Our aim is to empower staff to ascertain their own professional needs, both within and around their role, and to provide whatever support they require to flourish.
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