Job Description

Required September 2026

Templars Academy are looking to appoint an enthusiastic, motivated, outstanding higher-level teaching assistant to join our wonderful team. We firmly believe in supporting every staff member in their well-being and career development - ensuring we provide the best provision for all our team.

We are looking for a caring and enthusiastic person, who believes in our core values and specific ethos to add value to our experienced and excellent team of Higher-Level Teaching Assistants.

Working hours are 25 hours per week, term time only, 8.45am-3.00pm, Monday to Friday. Starting salary, Scale 6 pt.14, £16,685 per annum.

The successful candidate will be someone with experience of working, understanding and supporting children within an educational setting, demonstrate good teaching and learning skills, a commitment to team and collaborative working and able to display an innovative approach to education. They should thrive when working with children and have excellent communication skills.

It is essential that the successful candidate can demonstrate the following:

• Hold GCSE's in Maths and English, grade A-C or equivalent
• Enthusiasm to work with children with a variety of different personalities and skill levels.
• Experience within the Primary phase
• A strong, confident individual who can take control of a classroom.
• Able to engage well with pupils.
• Able to work under your own initiative.
• Smartly presented and with excellent time management skills.

We offer a supportive and enjoyable working environment with a commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children.

Visits to Templars Academy are encouraged. Please contact the school office on 01376 513477 to arrange an appointment.

Templars Academy is a busy but friendly school, with lots going on.

Reach, Believe, Achieve

being the best that we can be.

At Templars Academy, we inspire our children toreachfor the stars,believein their potential, andachieveexcellence in all aspects of their lives through an inclusive, high-quality education and a nurturing school community. We are dedicated to fostering an environment where every child thrives, is encouraged to aspire to their highest academic, personal, and social capabilities, and is empowered to be the best they can be - reaching their full potential.

Our dedicated staff work tirelessly to deliver a broad and ambitious curriculum that challenges and inspires, ensuring that all children make excellent progress and develop a lifelong love of learning. Alongside academic success, we place great importance on personal development, nurturing social, emotional, and moral growth so that our children are well-prepared for the opportunities and responsibilities of life beyond school.

We are committed to continuous improvement, guided by our core priorities to enhance teaching quality, strengthen leadership, and foster consistent high expectations in behaviour and learning. Together with families and the wider community, we work to ensure that every child at Templars Academy can thrive and achieve their fullest potential.

Inspires Multi-Academy Trust and our schools are committed to:

• Safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety, and the spiritual, moral, social and cultural development, of children and young people;
• Promoting equality of opportunity and community cohesion where the diversity of different backgrounds and circumstances is appreciated and positively valued;
• Promoting the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance for those with different faiths and beliefs;

and expects all staff, volunteers and other workers to share this commitment.

It is recognised that this can only be achieved through sound procedures, good inter-agency co-operation and the recruitment and retention of competent, motivated employees who are suited to, and fulfilled in the roles they undertake.

The appointment will be subject to an enhanced DBS check, medical clearance and satisfactory references.