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Achievement Support Assistant

Eckington School, Sheffield, Derbyshire, S21 4GN

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• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  9 August 2021 at 9am

• Date listed

  23 July 2021

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern:
  • Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Band E (£20,092 - £21,748pa FTE) equating to £16,447.45 - £17,803.00pa pro rata for 35hpw, term time only

Achievement Support Assistant job summary

The Governors are seeking to appoint an experienced Achievement Support Assistant (Teaching Assistant) to start as soon as possible to work with groups of students at both KS3 and KS4, as well as with students who have specific special educational needs.  We are looking for outstanding individuals who have the personal skills and drive to help students overcome their barriers to learning whether these are specific learning difficulties, emotional and social difficulties or medical disabilities.  As a Year group lead, you would maintain an overview of provision for student in your year group, be a primary contact for parents and contribute to the Assess, Plan, Do and Review cycle for each child with SEN in your year group. We would particularly welcome applications with strong primary Literacy and Numeracy experience to support our very low ability students. You would join a growing and rapidly improving Achievement Support Team, and be supported to further your career through training and development opportunities. 

This role is ideally suited to an experienced TA looking to progress their career to the next stage and take on a new challenge

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

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About Eckington School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1280 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• Email address: Sarah.Tully@eck.leaptrust.co.uk
• Phone number: 01246 432849
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/eckington-school-sheffield (opens in new tab)

Eckington School is a vibrant and rapidly improving 11-18 secondary school with 1,240 students on roll. It is set in a wonderful 42-acre site of rolling North East Derbyshire countryside, situated close to the centre of Sheffield and the Peak District National Park.  At Eckington School, we have high ambitions in all that we do, so not only do we expect students to strive to excel in their academic studies, but also to develop resilience and character, through all of school life: including exposure to wide-ranging extra-curricular activities, school trips, their studies and through their social and friendship groups. We want all of our students to leave Eckington School with a wide body of knowledge and skills, a strength of character, so they are best equipped for what comes next and can live an exceptional life.  

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