Teaching Assistant (Secondary)

Post: Teaching Assistant (permanent)

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary Range: Grade 4, SCP10 – SCP12 (£27,694.00 - £28, FTE) Pro rata salary £23,145.00 - £23,901.00

Working Type: Full time, 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 8am – 3.30pm (39 working weeks, paid weeks 45.942)

Base: Dyke House Academy, Mapleton Road, Hartlepool, TS24 8NQ

Please note: the post holder will be engaging in regulated activity, working mainly or wholly with children. This position is exempt from the rehabilitation of offender’s act 1974. It is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

Northern Education Trust (NET) is a charitable education Trust with a good track record for school improvement. The Trust sponsors 30 academies; 17 secondary and 13 primaries across the North of England in fourteen Local Authority regions.

Northern Education Trust is seeking to appoint four dedicated Teaching Assistants to join the team at Dyke House Academy. In this role, you will work as part of the academy/department to support interventions with students who require additional mentoring to achieve their GCSEs. You will also work with other small groups and individual students across both Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4 as required.

Your primary focus will be to promote the learning and welfare of students by providing practical and learning support, including supporting those with special needs, under the direction of a class teacher or Inclusion Manager.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver Interventions: Prepare and deliver targeted intervention programs to individuals and small groups, enabling them to achieve maximum access and participation in the National Curriculum.
• Student Mentoring: Interview students to discuss reasons for underperformance, assist in developing intervention materials, and keep detailed logs of student progress.
• Classroom Support: Work under the direction of the class teacher to assist in planning, monitoring, and evaluating learning objectives.
• Skill Development: Help students further develop their literacy, language, and reasoning skills, while assisting them with the organization and preparation of set assignments.
• Direct Student Aid: Aid learning by clarifying instructions, ensuring students can use equipment, motivating learners, and helping them concentrate to finish their work.
• Inclusion & Support: Support students with special needs to encourage acceptance and inclusion, develop methods to reinforce self-esteem, and assist in creating Individual Learning Plans (ILP).
• Behaviour & Environment: Establish productive working relationships with students, act as a role model, and support the "expectations for learning" system to maintain high standards of behaviour.
• Collaboration & Communication: Liaise regularly with teachers, heads of department, and parents/carers regarding student progress, ILPs, and feedback.
• Technology: Assist in maximizing the use of ICT in the learning process under the direction of the teacher.
• Cover Coverage: Occasionally supervise whole classes during short-term absences of teachers.
• Exam Invigilation: Assist with the invigilation of internal and external examination and assessments as required.

Northern Education Trust offers:

• The opportunity to work and progress across the family of schools, should you wish in the future;
• The chance to apply for leadership roles in the Deeps structure taking on a whole school leadership project;
• The support and expertise of Director of Subjects.
• A full and detailed programme of support and development for all;
• A further comprehensive programme of professional development, including leadership, provided through the NET Staff College.

Employee benefits

• Free flu vaccinations
• Free onsite parking
• High quality continuous professional development
• Occupational sick pay, maternity and paternity pay
• Access to the generous Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• Employee Assistance Programme

In accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2025, an online search will be completed on all shortlisted applicants prior to interview. Any relevant information will be discussed further with the applicant during the interview process.

The Trust is committed to considering flexible working requests. The Trust is committed to safer recruitment practice and pre-employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. All posts are subject to enhanced disclosure and barring service checks. We expect all adults to share our commitment to safeguarding and the health and wellbeing of our pupils.

Closing date: Midnight on Monday 31st August 2026