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  • Job start date

    7 January 2025

  • Closing date

    4 December 2024 at 8am

  • Date listed

    26 November 2024

Job details

Job role

  • HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
  • Learning support or cover supervisor

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time: Monday - Friday 7 Hours per day

Contract type

Fixed term - 8 Months

Full-time equivalent salary

From £24,200

What skills and experience we're looking for

Are you looking for a job to kick start your career in teaching? Would you like to work in a fast-paced, supportive three-entry primary school with excellent progression opportunities?

The Governors of Oswald Road Primary School are looking to appoint a highly skilled, flexible, experienced, self-motivated and organised Level 4 Teaching Assistant, to work as a Cover Supervisor to support our high standards of teaching and learning in the situation where a class teacher is not available. The successful candidate will have high expectations and an understanding of raising achievement for all children. Excellent numeracy, literacy and IT skills to support lessons are essential.

*Please note that we are looking for someone to work full-time. We could also offer a part time position to work a minimum 5 day afternoons per week.

The successful candidate will have high expectations and an understanding of raising achievement for all children. Excellent numeracy, literacy and IT skills to support lessons are essential.

The successful candidate will:

  • Be personable and friendly
  • Be committed to their own professional development
  • Be dedicated to school improvement and the success of Oswald Road Primary School
  • Have the ability to work successfully in a team
  • Be highly motivated individual who will ensure the best possible outcomes for the people they work with
  • Be able to work on their own initiative
  • Have excellent communication skills

What the school offers its staff

Oswald Road is an innovative and forward thinking school that has a very supportive and dedicated staff team who work tirelessly to provide a stimulating, nurturing and safe learning environment where the personalised provision for all learners enables them to meet their full potential.

Our school vision is for children to leave our school as young people who are:

  • Happy
  • Respectful
  • Inspired to learn
  • Independent
  • Aspirational
  • Creative
  • Self-confident
  • Resilient
  • Compassionate
  • Well rounded

We can offer you:

  • Excellent progression opportunities- many of our previous Cover Supervisors have stayed on to complete their ECT year and beyond with us (although having QTS is not essential for the role)
  • A committed team of staff
  • A supportive leadership team
  • Children who are eager to learn
  • A skilled and supportive governing body
  • Opportunities for continuing professional development
  • A welcoming, inclusive and friendly environment
  • A school that is at the heart of the local community

We welcome enquiries from everyone and value diversity in our workforce.

Further details about the role

We are fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, younger learners and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff and volunteers to share the same commitment. The above post will be subject to enhanced DBS checks, satisfactory references and will be exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. DBS Code of Practice which can be viewed here

This post is also subject to satisfactory references, proof of right to work in the UK in accordance with the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996 and other pre-employment checks where applicable.

We are an Equal Opportunities Employer and we positively welcome applications from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Fixed term contractContract length: 8 months

Pay: From £24,200.00 per year

Benefits:

  • On-site parking

Schedule:

  • 8 hour shift
  • Day shift
  • Monday to Friday

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 Oswald Road Primary School

School type
Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
Education phase
Primary
School size
650 pupils enrolled
Age range
3 to 11

Oswald Road is a community-minded school with a fantastic reputation for being inclusive and forward-thinking. We have a very supportive and dedicated staff team who work tirelessly to provide a stimulating, nurturing and safe learning environment where the personalised provision for all children enables them to meet their full potential.

We can offer you:

· Opportunities for continuing professional development

· A welcoming, inclusive and friendly environment

· A school that is at the heart of the local community, in the centre of vibrant Chorlton

· On-site secure parking

We welcome enquiries from everyone and value diversity in our workforce.

Oswald Road is a 'Good' school and our recent Ofsted inspection (September 2023) highlighted our commitment to staff wellbeing:

"The school has acted decisively to understand the impact of workload on staff’s well- being. Consequently, the school has responded to staff’s unique work pressures and taken steps to better support staff across the school. This means that staff feel valued and are proud to work at the school."

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