The Role

About you

We are looking to appoint Teaching Assistants to support individuals and groups of children to enable access to learning.  We are looking for enthusiastic, motivated individuals who can build supportive relationships with students, based on high expectations, positive regard and care.  Candidates will need excellent teamwork and communication skills, a genuine interest in working with young people, flexible thinking and a willingness to learn.  

Teaching Assistants work both inside and outside the classroom, on a one-to-one and group basis, supporting students with a wide range of special educational needs.  Working alongside class teachers you will support students in their academic achievement.

If you have any questions about the role, or the application process, please contact the Personnel Manager jane.fox@winsfordacademy.org.uk. Please also get in touch if you think Winsford Academy may be the school for you but you're looking for a different role. We'd love to add you to our talent pool.

New to working in education?

Alongside knowing that you're making a positive difference to the lives of thousands of young people, working at The Winsford Academy means that you will benefit from:

• A generous and secure pension scheme, with 22% employer contribution and death in service benefits
• Career pathways and training to help you progress as far as your ambition takes you
• Occupational sick pay and parental leave schemes, with service
• 26 days paid holiday entitlement, in addition to bank holidays, rising to 31 with service
• Fair and family-friendly approach to other paid time off requests
• Generous staff hospitality
• Cycle to work scheme
• Leisure centre discounts and access to fitness suite on site

How to apply

We ask all applicants to apply through Face-Ed; our recruitment software. This enables us to efficiently carry out our safer recruitment checks, but we recognise it can take some time for the applicant. The good news is, you will only need to register for Face-Ed once to apply for any role in the Trust's 10 schools.

Our top tips for a painless process are as follows:

1. Because Face-Ed is cloud based software, it is possible for you to experience a break in connection and you won't necessarily know about it straight away. We therefore strongly recommend that you prepare your main application content in a different package like MS Word/Notepad and copy and paste it into your Face-Ed application form in the relevant sections.
2. If you get a message saying "Validation Error" it isn't a software fault. It means you have entered data in a format that wasn't expected and it is causing a problem with saving. This might mean you have entered words in a box that expects numbers, for example.

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