Teaching Assistant 

Permanent, Part Time (28 hours per week)

Term Time + 1 week (39 weeks)

Salary: Support Scale D £12,679 - £12,933 pro rata per annum (£19,650 - £20,043 Full Time Equivalent)

Starting July 2022

Wayland Academy

We have an exciting opportunity for a Teaching Assistant to join our committed and hardworking team at Wayland Academy, supporting our students to achieve their full potential. 

You will be an enthusiastic and inspiring practitioner with recent experience of working in a secondary education setting and in one to one situations. You will be passionate about raising achievement through motivating and inspiring students, and keen to contribute to the school’s visions and values. You will be motivated to enable access to learning for pupils, including specialised support for those with special education needs. 

Wayland Academy is an oversubscribed Secondary school in the heart of Norfolk with a positive atmosphere and low staff turnover. Staff at Wayland Academy have a belief in every student's entitlement to the highest quality of education and ability to achieve and learn. Our curriculum vision reflects the role of the Academy in the community, promotes understanding and enrichment and values our students’ reading, vocabulary and fluency in speech and written word. We take the learning and pastoral care of our students very seriously to give them confidence in the world.

We are part of the Inspiration Trust, twice ranked as the country’s top family of comprehensive schools for pupil progress, and strongly believe in the importance of giving the widest educational opportunities to all young people, regardless of their background. We have strong networks across the Trust, with opportunities to work with a diverse range of schools and partners. We are committed to offering excellent professional and learning opportunities for our staff, with a busy programme of continuing professional development courses delivered by some of the country’s best educational thinkers and practitioners. 

Discussions about the role are warmly encouraged and can be arranged by emailing the PA to the Principal, Julie Amys at julieamys@inspirationtrust.org

To apply for this role please click the button on this page to complete the online application form.

Closing date for applications: 12pm on 29th June 2022

Interviews date: w/c 4th July 2022

Inspiration Trust is committed to safeguarding and all staff appointments are subject to satisfactory references and enhanced DBS checks. You will be required to provide references and undertake an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check. 

This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We are an equal opportunities employer.