1:2 Level 3 Teaching Assistant

We are delighted to be able to advertise the brand new position of 'Primary School Teacher' at Q3 Academy Tipton. Based within our Growth Hub. You will be an incredible teacher and role model, specifically working with students in Key Stage 3 to close gaps from Key Stage 2. This will particularly focus on English and mathematics but also provide support across other subjects too.

This is crucial role in order to support students' future outcomes by working as part of an inclusion and transition team. In September 2025 we established the Growth Hub (Internal Alternative Provision) specifically to support Key Stage 3 and have already seen incredible success. You will be the next part to further support academic progress for these students, working alongside an established and cohesive team of colleagues, with good links across other schools as part of the Mercian Academy Trust.

If you are a dynamic, supportive, and inspiring teacher who has experience in curriculum planning and delivery across Key Stage 2, we want to hear from you. You are an incredible teacher who is passionate about your phase and able to inspire and motivate students to learn. Your passion for education is demonstrated in your daily work and you are willing to contribute to wider curriculum opportunity for students to further engage and support them in their learning.

We welcome visits from potential candidates at any time.

The Academy is looking for someone who has:

Ambition for all students to achieve incredible things, particularly inspiring their interest and supporting development of skills; Resilience to adapt and support all students in achieve; Ambition for your own development and learning. All teaching staff are provided with additional non-contact time specifically for personal-development; Incredible subject knowledge; The ability to understand and work with assessment data to monitor and intervene as appropriate with students. We can offer you:

·Students who are kind, ambitious, resilient and respectful, working in and with well-established systems which allow you to focus on teaching;

·A motivated and supportive staff-body who prioritise students' achievement;

·Additional non-contact time beyond 10% PPA to support your own self-development and workload;

·Prioritisation of the reduction of workload in teaching;

·Regular celebration of achievement for both students and staff;

·A supportive environment which focuses on all members of our community achieving their best;

·Access to Health Care schemes through the Mercian Academy Trust;

·A "birthday day" paid leave of absence to celebrate your special day or use for something else (subject to attendance measures);

·Opportunity to collaborate with colleagues from a wide range of settings including grammar schools and a-typical settings.

Your key responsibilities will include:

Teaching small groups and one-to-one at Key Stage 3, primarily; Responsibility for adding value to every learner in each teaching group benchmarked against national criteria and data; Delivering, planning, and preparing lessons for groups or individual students in accordance with the necessary curriculum; Contribution to curriculum design within our alternative provision; Working as part of an incredible team that ensures creative and innovative learning and teaching occurs in every lesson; Providing pastoral and welfare support to students within the Growth Hub as appropriate.

The Mercian Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults, and all appointments are subject to enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks and satisfactory references.