Teaching Assistant

Teaching Assistant (The Keystone Academy)

Location:

Shropshire, UK

Contract Type:
Permanent

Education Phases:
Through School;

Job Role s:
Teaching Assistant;

Working Patterns:
Full-Time;

Final date to receive applications:
Friday, 24th July 2026

Interview Date: TBC

Is a Shared Job:
No

The Keystone Academy is a specialist school for children aged 4-16 with Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) needs and difficulties. It brings together the vision of The YES Trust with that of Shropshire Local Authority, aiming to provide an excellent specialist school for students with SEMH, including those with neurodivergent needs.

As a new school, we are lucky enough to have a brand-new building purpose‑built for our cohort’s needs.

To work collaboratively with the class teacher in order to support outstanding lessons and support students’ emotional health and wellbeing.

• Support the vision and direction of the school
• Support teachers and Learning Mentors to deliver an engaging specialist curriculum within the academy
• Support effective learning and teaching throughout school
• Deploy and create resources efficiently and effectively to meet specific objectives in line with your specialist area strategic plans
• Ensure effective pastoral care and behaviour support throughout the school

Support teaching staff to ensure effective teaching and learning throughout the Academy, monitor and evaluate progress made in your specialist area and present students’ achievement effectively, using benchmarks to track set targets for improvements.

Support teaching staff to ensure high‑quality teaching is delivered to students. This will be in your subject area as well as other subjects as and when required.

Support teaching staff to provide and maintain an environment and a code of behaviour and discipline which promotes and secures good teaching, effective learning and high standards of achievement.

Support the curriculum and its assessment. Work with the teachers and Learning Mentors to monitor and evaluate it in order to identify areas for improvement.

Support students with their emotional health and wellbeing.

Develop key relationships with students and parents and carers.

Engage in outreach to ensure all our students’ needs are met.

Ensure that the relevant interventions are delivered to support improvements in literacy, numeracy and emotional wellbeing.

Seek opportunities to invite parents and carers into the Academy to enrich student experience and to promote the Academy’s value to the wider community.

Collaborate with staff to actively promote the British values, academic, spiritual, moral, social, emotional and cultural well‑being of students and their families.

Help ensure that health and safety standards meet statutory requirements, monitoring health and safety matters within the school, particularly ensuring that all members of staff take reasonable care for the health and safety of themselves and others.

Ensure that Child Protection and Safeguarding procedures and Department of Health assessments of Children in Need are rigorously complied with, and that the welfare and health and safety of students are of prime consideration.

Promote the safety and well‑being of students and staff.

Ensure good order and discipline of students and staff.

Undertake personal care of pupils where required.

Engage with CPD opportunities to effectively fulfil your role and achieve the best possible outcomes for our students.

Note:

Postholders will be expected to be flexible in undertaking duties and responsibilities attached to their post and may be asked to perform duties which reasonably correspond to the general character of the post and are commensurate with its level of responsibility.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. Child safety recruitment procedures operate and appointment is subject to satisfactory references, enhanced DBS, qualifications check and all other relevant employment checks.

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