REDHILL ACADEMY TRUST
Literacy & Functional Skills Teaching Assistant
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Redhill Academy Trust Pay Scale, Band 7
Scale points 32 - 36
Actual salary: £22,094 - £23,923 per annum (FTE: £26,141 - 28,305)
32.5 hours per week - Term Time Only, Permanent
Required To Start September 2026
We are looking for a suitably qualified and enthusiastic Literacy & Functional Skills Teaching Assistant to join our established learning support team. Experience in working with students with a wide range of SEND and a desire to work with young people in supporting their welfare and wellbeing is essential.
The Learning Support department at Colonel Frank Seely Academy is managed by the SENDCo with support from a team of Teaching Assistants who are supportive, caring and passionate. We are looking to appoint a Literacy & Functional Skills Teaching Assistant to further enrich the team. We are looking for someone who is kind, dedicated and hard working from any educational background and any key stage that wishes to progress to a secondary environment within SEND. There is a pathway for progression within this role and CPD to support within it. The role is primarily to facilitate greater inclusion and remove barriers for students with identified or moving towards being identified as requiring SEN support.
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Colonel Frank Seely Academy is part of Redhill Academy Trust. The Academy is also a member of Redhill College of Leadership and Development and as such there are excellent CPD opportunities for further information please visit the website.
Benefits
- Access to Local Government Pension Scheme
- Generous annual leave entitlement increasing with service, plus statutory holidays
- The opportunity to be part of a highly supportive and ambitious team/school
- Recognised continuous local government service for annual leave entitlement, Occupational Maternity/ Paternity pay
- Cycle to work Scheme
- Commitment to employee Health and Wellbeing including Employee Assistance Programme
- Employee benefits platform
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For further details regarding this post please contact Nic Musgrove, Operations Manager on the Academy number. To apply complete our online application form, please use the 'apply now' button.
If you have any questions or queries regarding the application process please contact the HR Team.
As Redhill Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding children practices, any appointment will be subject to an enhanced DBS and Child barred list checks, candidate online search and successful references.
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