Make a real difference every day by helping students overcome barriers and achieve their potential. As a Teaching Assistant, you’ll work closely with our Accelerated Learning Team to provide targeted support, build students’ confidence, and ensure they can fully engage in lessons. From delivering small‑group interventions to supporting students with SEMH, ADHD or ASD in the classroom, you’ll play a key part in creating a positive, inclusive learning environment.
Contract Type: Permanent, thirty five hours per week, thirty nine weeks per year
Please apply using this link: https://ce0768li.webitrent.com/ce0768li_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC179GF.open?WVID=3563111Wpz&VACANCY_ID=3549438Qav
The role:
As a Teaching Assistant, you will:
- Work with individuals and small groups to develop key literacy, numeracy and language skills.
- Provide in‑class support for pupils with SEMH, ADHD, ASD and other additional needs.
- Help students regulate behaviour and re‑engage positively with learning through ALR and ALR Plus provision.
- Create and adapt resources that meet the needs of individual learners.
- Keep detailed records of interventions, progress, meetings and liaison with families or agencies.
- Support SEND processes including referrals to CAMHS/OT, ADHD/ASC pathways, and SEND Register updates.
- Work collaboratively with teachers, pastoral staff and the SENCO to remove barriers to learning and promote inclusion.
About You:
You will be:
- A strong communicator with good organisational and interpersonal skills.
- Able to explain tasks clearly and support students in breaking learning into manageable steps.
- Positive, proactive and motivated to help every learner succeed.
- Confident in building supportive relationships with students who may face challenges.
- Willing to develop understanding of SEND, SEMH and intervention strategies.
- Emotionally resilient when supporting pupils with complex needs.
- Professional, reliable and committed to safeguarding and student wellbeing.
About Weavers Academy:
Weavers Academy is a thriving 11–18 non-selective academy located in Wellingborough, and proud to be part of the growing Creative Education Trust. We offer a dynamic and inclusive learning environment where every student is supported to achieve their full potential.
Our academy is large enough to provide a broad and innovative curriculum, yet small enough to ensure that every student feels safe, valued, and happy. At Weavers, we place the quality of teaching and learning at the heart of everything we do, because we know it is the single most important factor in shaping student success.
We foster an ethos where it is ‘cool’ to learn, and we actively listen to feedback from families and students to continually improve our provision. To find out more please visit our website.
About Creative Education Trust:
Creative Education Trust is a growing network of 17 schools, educating over 13,500 children and young people across England. Since 2010, we’ve worked in partnership with communities to deliver an education that inspires ambition, promotes equity, and unlocks opportunity for every learner.
We believe every child has talent, every community has strength, and every school can be a place where excellence thrives. Our curriculum is rich, broad, and inclusive - designed to build knowledge, nurture creativity, and prepare students for the future.
We are united by a shared purpose: to transform lives through education. Our schools are places where students feel safe, supported, and empowered to lead their own lives with confidence. Through collaboration, high expectations, and purposeful leadership, we ensure that success is both expected and achieved - together. Visit our trust website to explore how we support our staff and discover more about our mission, values, and opportunities.
Ready to Join Us?
Submit your application directly through our website. We warmly welcome visits to our school, and if you'd like to arrange a visit or conversation with the Line Manager, please let us know. Want to stay connected? Join our Talent Pool and be the first to hear about future opportunities.
Essential Information:
Creative Education Trust (CET) is committed to Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people by keeping them safe, we expect all our colleagues to share in this responsibility.
All shortlisted candidates are subject to online checks prior to interview.
The CET Recruitment Policy follows the guidance set out by Keeping Children Safe in Education, where all offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS Check, separate Barred List Check, References and where appropriate a Prohibition from teaching search.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974.
CET is committed to developing, maintaining, and supporting an inclusive culture and environment for the benefit of its employees and the communities it serves.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £20,814.00-£21,145.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- On-site gym
Work Location: In person
