Graduate Teaching Associate

We are seeking to appoint a motivated and ambitious Graduate Teaching Associate to join our school. This is an exciting opportunity for a graduate who is considering a career in teaching and wants to gain meaningful, hands-on experience in a high-performing and supportive school environment.

Role Overview

The role is designed to provide a structured pathway into teaching, combining classroom experience, targeted intervention work, and professional development. Graduate Teaching Associates play a key role in supporting learning across the school through:

• Delivering high-quality cover supervision
• Leading and supporting targeted intervention programmes
• Working alongside teachers to support learning, progress, and behavior

This is an ideal role for candidates who are seeking to progress into teacher training, with a clear and supported route into a teaching apprenticeship leading to Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) within the Trust after one year.

Professional Development

We offer a well-supported route into teaching, alongside high-quality professional development and expert coaching to help you thrive. You will gain valuable experience in a school that is deeply committed to ambition, inclusion, and excellence, where every day presents an opportunity to make a meaningful difference in students’ lives. Our collaborative culture ensures that all staff are supported to grow, develop, and succeed in their careers.

We want ambitious and talented people to join Mulberry Academy Hastings because they want to make a real difference to the lives of children and young people. Professional development is central to our culture. All teaching staff benefit from weekly professional development, and each year we dedicate a two-week professional development programme in October. During this time teachers deepen their practice and collaborate on improving teaching and learning, while colleagues in support roles have structured time designed specifically for their own professional development.

We also build coaching into teachers’ timetables, ensuring every teacher benefits from regular professional dialogue, reflection, and support to continually develop their practice.

Working Environment

As part of the Mulberry Schools Trust, staff benefit from Trust-wide expertise, strong collaboration, and opportunities to grow professionally. The East London Teaching School Hub further enhances this offer, delivering nationally recognized programmes and enabling staff to engage in and contribute to training across all career stages.

We recognize the importance of balancing work and home life. We consider flexible and family-friendly working opportunities wherever possible, including part-time, term-time and job-share arrangements. At Mulberry Academy Hastings we also design timetables to support staff wellbeing. All teachers receive a weekly PPA session scheduled as an afternoon, which can be worked remotely if teachers wish, supporting a healthy work-life balance.

Balancing everyday life with the requirements of work can create pressures for all of us. Work is a significant part of our lives and we are committed to creating a healthy and supportive working environment.

All employees have free access to a 24-hour confidential counselling and wellbeing service, designed to support staff with a range of personal and professional challenges. Recognizing that the autumn term is the longest and most demanding, we restructured our calendar to better support staff wellbeing with a two-week break in October.

Safeguarding and Child Welfare

The Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All staff will be expected to hold or be willing to obtain an enhanced DBS check or Enhanced check for Regulated Activity with the Disclosure & Barring Services.