Teaching Assistant, temporary – one year
Closing Date: Friday 2nd May 2025
Interviews: May 2025
Position Start Date: 26th August 2025
Temporary
A unique opportunity for dedicated and enthusiastic Teaching Assistant to join the team at Castle Mead Academy, as part of The Mead Educational Trust.
In August 2019, Castle Mead Academy, a non-selective secondary school, opened its doors and welcomed our first year 7 cohort. Since then, we have never looked back! We are now fully-grown, with over 1200 scholars as part of our school, going about their learning each and every day. Building on the success of Rushey Mead Academy, Castle Mead is making available in the heart of Leicester a standard of education matching the very best schools in the country so that every scholar leaves us with high value academic qualifications and wider positive dispositions to enable them to lead fulfilling lives.
This is an opportunity for an experienced Teaching Assistant who is:
1. passionate about inclusion and supporting pupils to achieve their potential;
2. believes in equality of opportunity and has high expectations of pupils;
3. willing to learn and work as part of our team;
4. going to contribute to the ethos of our school;
5. Flourish in our brand-new building, on the picturesque riverside!
Please submit your application by Friday 2nd May 2025, 9.00am. For further information, a confidential discussion, to book a visit to Castle Mead Academy or any technical queries please contact Hajrah Mustafa (details can be found in the candidate pack).
Castle Mead Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
This post will involve contact with vulnerable groups (children, young people and/or adults) and is therefore, exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Disclosure check.
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