Overview
We are looking for two professional and self-motivated individuals with excellent communication skills and the ability to be flexible. You will join our team of dedicated and experienced Teaching Assistants who assist in promoting the learning and personal development of all students, including, but not exclusively, those with special educational needs. Whilst experience is preferable, it is not essential, and training will be given.
Contracts
* Full-time, term-time only, 37 hours per week, fixed-term contract for 1 year due to funding
* Part-time, term-time only, 15 hours per week, fixed-term contract for 1 year due to secondment
About Beacon Academy
Beacon Academy is a split-site, semi-rural, mixed 11–18 non-selective converter academy with approximately 1,664 students, including over 320 students in our Sixth Form. We are situated centrally in Crowborough on the outskirts of the Ashdown Forest, an area of outstanding natural beauty. We are close to Tunbridge Wells and the South Coast. The vast majority of our staff travel to Beacon from a variety of locations within the southeast, including Brighton, Eastbourne, Lewes and Tunbridge Wells.
In September 2022, Beacon Academy, together with Uplands Academy in Wadhurst, became a member of the MARK Education Trust (formerly Beacon Community College Academy Trust). The acronym MARK was selected because staff who work in the Trust are motivated, ambitious, resourceful, and knowledgeable. We were pleased to expand our Trust further in September 2025 with the addition of Hailsham Academy. This continued growth reflects our shared commitment to educational excellence, collaboration and supporting the success of all students across our Academies.
We work meticulously to secure a culture of unapologetically high expectations that are underpinned by our collective, uncompromising belief and ambition for our students and for the experienced, loyal, highly skilled and highly effective team of staff that teach them, allowing teachers to teach and students to learn in a school where leadership, management, behaviour and welfare are all judged as outstanding. MARK Education Trust is committed to the development of both its staff and students.
Application Details
To apply, please visit beacon-academy.org
Closing date: 10.00am on 2nd October 2025.
Interview date: w/c 13th October 2025.
NB: we advise applying promptly for this post as we reserve the right to close and interview early if sufficient suitable applications have been received.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to Enhanced DBS clearance and suitable references.
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