Teaching Assistant at Beacon Academy in Crowborough

About This Role

Teaching Assistant

Start date: as soon as possible

Compensation and Contract

Grade/Salary: Single Status Grade 3, currently £24,795 per annum, full time equivalent. Actual salary: £21,778.

Contract: Full time, term time only, 37 hours per week, fixed term contract for 12 months due to funding (some flexibility in hours will be considered).

Role Overview

Are you looking for a rewarding role that could fit with your existing lifestyle? Join us as a Teaching Assistant on a fixed-term contract and make a real difference in the classroom. This is a fantastic opportunity to gain valuable experience, develop your skills, and contribute to students’ learning. Whether you are exploring a career in education or seeking a role that works around your future plans, this position offers flexibility and purpose.

Responsibilities

• Support classroom learning and help shape young minds
• Spark change and have a meaningful influence on students\’ futures
• Enjoy flexible opportunities that fit around other commitments

Benefits Of Working With Us

• Opportunity to join the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Development opportunities
• Blue Light Card – offering discounts on over 18,000 brands inc Apple, JD Sports and many more
• Free on-site parking
• Access to Care First – a free and confidential counselling and information service

Beacon Academy is a split site, semi-rural, mixed 11-18 non-selective converter academy with approximately 1600 students, including over 300 students in our Sixth Form. We are situated centrally in Crowborough on the outskirts of the Ashdown Forest, an area of outstanding natural beauty. We are close to Tunbridge Wells and the south coast. The vast majority of our staff travel to Beacon from a variety of locations within the southeast, including Brighton, Eastbourne, Lewes and Tunbridge Wells.

In September 2022, Beacon Academy, together with Uplands Academy in Wadhurst, became a member of the MARK Education Trust (formally Beacon Community College Academy Trust). The acronym, MARK, was selected because staff who work in the Trust are motivated, ambitious, resourceful, and knowledgeable. We were pleased to expand our Trust further in September 2025 with the addition of Hailsham Academy. This continued growth reflects our shared commitment to educational excellence, collaboration and supporting the success of all students across our Academies.

We work meticulously to secure a culture of unapologetically high expectations that are underpinned by our collective, uncompromising belief and ambition for our students, and for the experienced, loyal, highly skilled and highly-effective team of staff that teach them, allowing teachers to teach and students to learn in a school where leadership, management, behaviour and welfare are all judged as outstanding. MARK Education Trust is committed to the development of both its staff and students.

For further details, please contact the Human Resources department on 01892 603000 or email hr@beacon-academy.org. Please be advised that we do not accept curriculum vitae.

MARK Education Trust (Beacon, Uplands and Hailsham Academies) is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants.

NB: we advise applying promptly for this post as we reserve the right to close and interview early if sufficient suitable applications have been received.