1:1 Teaching Assistant, supporting a visually impaired student
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Start date details
September 2024
Closing date
1 July 2024 at 9am
Date listed
29 April 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3
Working pattern
- Part time: Pattern of hours: Monday – Friday 8.30am – 4.30pm with half an hour unpaid lunch break each day and an early finish of 4.00pm one afternoon each week Term time only, plus 5 days – September 2024 start
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £23,500.00 to £23,893.00
What skills and experience we're looking for
The successful candidate willwork as a 1:1 GTA, working alongside our teaching team, supporting a visually impaired student in our school in reading and typing in braille, touch typing, using an embosser and supporting the pupil with the use of a cane.
As a comprehensive academy, our overriding aim at TSA is to ensure that our students achieve everything that they are capable of. We recognise every student as an individual, with different needs and talents, and we work hard together to make sure we support and nurture successful, happy and confident learners who achieve in the widest sense of the word, and not just academically.
At Moorlands Learning Trust (MLT) we are aspirational for every student within our Trust and are committed to achieving success for all and inspiring others to do so too. We believe in investing in the professional and career development of our staff to keep ourselves at the cutting edge of educational developments, where staff wellbeing is also a key priority for us and our schools.
If you are inspired by this opportunity and have the qualities to contribute to our high-quality provision, then we would be delighted to hear from you.
What the school offers its staff
In return for your commitment we can offer:
- the opportunity to make a real difference
- personalised CPD with a strong commitment to professional growth
- a very calm and orderly school with high expectations and an ethos of trust and care
- a committed and enthusiastic staff
- a very supportive Senior Leadership Team and Trust Executive team
- a location in beautiful Skipton with good transport links to the rest of Craven, Leeds and Bradford
Commitment to safeguarding
Moorlands Learning Trust is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to the protection and safeguarding of children and young people in our recruitment procedures and in all our work across and beyond school. The school adheres to statutory guidelines in respect to safe recruitment. All persons employed by the school, in any capacity, will undergo an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, and confirmation of employment is subject to a successful outcome. All teaching staff members recruited by the school have their eligibility to teach checked with the DfE.
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About The Skipton Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 590 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- The Skipton Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- v.okeefe@theskiptonacademy.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01756 792965
The Skipton Academy is a vibrant 11-16 comprehensive school which is rapidly growing and expanding in size; pupil numbers have increased recently to such a degree that we now need to expand our staffing across a range of subject areas.
We are committed to our ethos of “Belong Challenge Inspire” and this has been key to the improvements in every aspect of the school. Our dedicated staff are fully committed to this ethos and have bought into a common goal and support each other to make The Skipton Academy a vibrant and positive place to work.
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