Teaching Assistant/ICT Support
Location: St James Academy
Contract Type: Permanent
Contract Term: Full-time (35 hours); Mon‑Fri 8.30am to 4.30pm (one‑hour break); term‑time only
Grade/Salary: Grade 5 scp 9‑17
Closing Date: Friday 12th June 2026
Start Date: 1st September 2026
Interview Date(s): Tuesday 16th June 2026
About this role
The Lighthouse Multi Academy Trust is looking for a teaching assistant with strong ICT skills and an interest in teaching computing to children to join the staff team at St James Academy. Passionate about ICT and the computing curriculum in primary schools? Excellent ICT skills? If so, this could be a great position for you.
Main Responsibilities
- Passionate about ICT and computing and have excellent/strong personal skills in this area.
- Enjoy working with children and be confident to support class teachers in delivering computing lessons to pupils.
- Maintain the academy’s current ICT equipment and liaise with the company that provides technical support.
- Follow safeguarding and child protection procedures and handle confidential information.
What we offer you
- A friendly, dedicated staff team who believe in teamwork and building positive relationships across the school, the Trust and the local community.
- High quality development programme with induction programmes for all new staff.
- Excellent CPD opportunities.
- Annual conferences with keynote speakers.
- Access to professional coaching.
- A supportive and collaborative working ethos, including support from the Trust’s Central Executive Team and experts such as specialists in pupil welfare, SEND and behaviour.
- Access to Employee Assistance Programme including free counselling.
- Access to discounts through our reward partner Perkbox.
Safeguarding and Employment Checks
Only those shortlisted for interview will be contacted. References will be requested for those shortlisted only and prior to interview. In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2025, online searches will be completed as part of the due diligence on shortlisted candidates, searching online content that is publicly available for inappropriate content that may suggest that a shortlisted candidate may not be suitable to work with children, or that may harm the reputation of the school. If any issues of concern arise in online searches, shortlisted candidates will have an opportunity to address these at interview. An Enhanced DBS certificate will be required on provisional offer, including a check of the Children’s Barred List. Further vetting checks, in line with the requirements of Keeping Children Safe in Education 2025, will be completed following a provisional offer of appointment. Where applicable, if an applicant with a provisional offer of employment has lived and/or worked outside the UK, they will be required to obtain a Certificate of Good Conduct. The Lighthouse Multi Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. Offers of employment are subject to a satisfactory enhanced DBS disclosure and other employment checks. Our Safeguarding Policy can be found on our website https://www.stjames.lhmat.com/Contact-Us/.
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