Teaching Assistant – Secondary School

Overview

Teaching Assistant – Secondary School | March 2026 Start

Location:

Cirencester

Contract:

Full-time (Monday-Friday)

Hours:

8:30am – 3:30pm
Salary:
Competitive (Dependent on Experience)

A great opportunity has arisen for a motivated and supportive Teaching Assistant to join a well-respected secondary school in Cirencester this March 2026. This position is ideal for someone who is passionate about helping young people succeed both academically and personally.

The school provides a positive, aspirational, and dynamic setting where students are encouraged to excel academically and grow into confident, capable young people. The school emphasises exceptional teaching and learning and offers a range of opportunities to help pupils develop character, independence, and future skills. The commitment to academic challenge, personal development, and a supportive community creates an environment where students can realise their full potential and staff can contribute to shaping greater futures.

• A welcoming, inclusive, and community-focused setting
• A school ethos that balances academic challenge with personal development
• Strong pastoral support and a consistent, positive approach to behaviour
• Leadership committed to ongoing staff development and wellbeing
• A respectful, supportive school culture where every student is valued
• Convenient access routes into Cirencester and surrounding areas

In this role, you’ll support teaching and learning across KS3 and KS4, helping students stay engaged, organised, and confident in their individual subjects. A key part of your work will involve supporting the Behaviour Support Room, where you will guide students who may need time to settle, reflect, and prepare to rejoin lessons in a calm and focused way. This is an essential part of the school’s pastoral system, providing students with a structured space to reset and receive additional guidance.

You’ll also support students in continuing with their academic work during these times, helping them stay on track and maintain progress. This role suits someone who is calm, resilient, and committed to supporting both learning and behaviour with consistency and care.

• Support teaching and learning across a wide range of KS3 and KS4 subjects
• Help students stay focused, motivated, and progressing in their individual lessons
• Provide targeted 1:1 and small-group support as needed
• Assist within the Behaviour Support Room, helping students regulate and refocus
• Promote positive behaviour, routine, and engagement
• Assist teachers in preparing classroom resources and materials
• Contribute to a positive, inclusive, and student-centred school environment
• Support both academic progress and broader personal development

• Experience working with children or young people (school experience is beneficial)
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills
• Confidence supporting behaviour, emotional regulation, and engagement
• A patient, calm, and adaptable approach to challenges
• Genuine enthusiasm for helping young people learn and thrive
• Strong commitment to safeguarding, inclusion, and the school’s core values
• Relevant qualifications are an advantage but not essential

• Leading provider, Crown Commercial Service Approved
• Opportunity to enhance your CPD portfolio through our Affinity Academy
• Free Safeguarding training
• Refer a friend scheme – £200 bonus (you can make unlimited referrals)
• Online portal to manage your pay and timesheets

To learn more about us and what makes Monarch one of the leading education recruitment providers nationwide – please visit our website – About Us – Monarch ()

• All pay rates provided are inclusive of rolled up holiday pay.
• Equal Opportunities – Monarch
• Affinity Workforce Solutions and Monarch Education are committed to safeguarding and promoting welfare of children and young people and expects all its temporary workers to share these commitments. As this role involves working with children on a daily basis, regulated activity is that any successful applicant’s applications will, accordance with statutory guidance, be subject to 2 employment references, an enhanced DBS check and a right to work in the UK check.
• This vacancy is based in the United Kingdom. Monarch Education operate in the UK and can only process applications from candidates who are currently UK residents and eligible to work in the UK. While we will endeavour to contact you following your response, due to the high volume of applications we regret that this cannot always be possible. If you have not had notification from us within 30 days please take your application as not being successful this time but we will keep your details on file for future opportunities.