Job Description

Salary

TA Band 1-2
16,000 - 19,000 (Term Time Only)

Contractual hours

27

Basis

Part Time

Region

Cambridge

Job category/type

Support Staff

Date posted

20/10/2025

Job reference

REQ004092

The Role

We are looking for an inspiring, hardworkingand nurturing individual to join our dedicated Equality and Intervention team at Parkside Community College. As a Teaching Assistant, you will support the learning of SEND students, working mainly alongsideteachers in mainstream classes. You will have a true passion for helping often vulnerable young people to realise their full potential.

This role is 27 hrs/wk Term time only.

The School

Parkside Community College is part of the Cambridge cluster within United Learning and is committed to bringing out 'The Best in Everyone' through an education that develops rich knowledge and character.

Parkside Community College is a highly oversubscribed school with a long history of success and an excellent reputation for innovation in education. We are situated in three sets of buildings, with the main site, overlooking Parker's Piece, opening in 1913. We offer 120 places in each year group and believe deeply in the power of 'human scale' education, where every student is very well known and strong relationships help teachers to support their classes to exceptional outcomes. Our last inspection graded us Outstanding and our GCSE results in 2022 make us one of the highest performing schools in the country, within the top 1% of schools for progress.

Our intake is diverse: we have a large proportion of higher attainers on entry; we also have significant profile of Special Educational Needs. We have many students join us from overseas, with a range of ability in English in the main school.

We are committed to supporting our colleagues to be highly effective teachers: as well as department curriculum time, we develop our teaching as a whole staff every week, informed by Rosenshine's Principles. We have a behaviour policy that is consistent and enables colleagues to teach without disruption.

United Learning

Parkside Community College is part of United Learning, one of the country's leading multi-academy trusts. We serve more than 64,000 pupils and support around 10,000 staff in our schools, and we offer a growing range of additional services, including teacher training, professional development programmes, and a full curriculum package for schools.

Everything that we do is geared towards improving life outcomes for young people. We also believe in offering our staff 'more pay, more time and more support'.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check will be required for successful applicants.

We reserve the right to invite strong candidates to interview in advance of the closing date, so encourage early applicants.