10 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    September 2024

  • Closing date

    10 July 2024 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    27 June 2024

Job details

Job role

  • Learning support or cover supervisor

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time, term time: 32.5 hours per week, term time only

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

Grade CD 4 -6, £12.00 - £12.38 per hour, £17,394 - £17,952 per annum actual gross pay

What skills and experience we're looking for

Are you looking to gain classroom experience to test the waters of a Teaching Assistant or Teaching Career?

About Us

Whitby School is a new school; an exciting development for the Whitby community. Our school will be a positive, warm, and welcoming school where pupils will aim to do their very best and take pride in their achievements. By constantly challenging our pupils to excel, we will nurture aspirations and strive to cultivate a lifelong love of learning in our young people.

We are looking for colleagues who will provide a creative, safe, and caring environment where every child is known and cared for as an individual. In this climate, every young person can thrive as they develop in personality, character and intellect and become a highly successful learner and individual.

Our Opportunity

We are seeking to appoint Cover Supervisors to provide cover for absent teaching staff and be a key member of our School Support staff.

You will deliver tasks to students as set out by the classroom teacher, managing classroom organisation, and encouraging positive student behaviour and motivation.

As well as covering lessons, you will supervise students, assist in targeted work with small groups of students, and undertake administrative support for the academic and pastoral systems of the school.

You will develop positive and motivational relationships with students which support the raising of achievement.

The role is wonderfully varied, you will be able to develop administrative skills as well as educational support skills.

This opportunity is ideal for candidates who wish to transition from an administration role into a teaching assistant career.

What you will need to succeed:

  • Committed to supporting students
  • Excellent interpersonal skills
  • Effective communicator both orally and in writing
  • Effective ICT skills
  • Excellent organisational and administrative skills
  • Understanding of the educational system and current developments

Experience within a school environment assisting pupils is not essential but may be preferred.

What the school offers its staff

We can offer you

  • A supportive, collaborative team who openly share ideas and best practice
  • A school community that prides itself on engagement, generosity, dignity and inspiration
  • Access to Mental health and Wellbeing support services
  • Opportunities for CPD and career progression


Further details about the role

Application Process

Please complete the online NYC Jobs application form. If you experience any problems completing your application, or require any further information please email us at: chloe.bullen@northyorks.gov.uk

We do not accept CVs.

We are committed to meeting the needs of our diverse community and aim to have a workforce reflecting this diversity. We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We have a robust child protection policy and all staff will receive training relevant to their role at induction and throughout employment at the school. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

This post is subject to satisfactory references and enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service criminal records check for work with children. An online search may be undertaken as part of the recruitment process on information available in the public domain. Candidates should disclose anything that may be relevant in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education.

North Yorkshire Council (NYC) advertise vacancies and process applications on behalf of schools and external organisations (third parties) in North Yorkshire. NYC are not responsible for the recruitment/employment practices of third parties and accept no liability in relation to the vacancy and any subsequent recruitment/employment processes.

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.

Applying for the job

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Apply for the job by following the link below

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About Caedmon College Whitby

School type
Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 19
Education phase
View all Secondaryjobs
School size
780 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 19
Phone number
01609 536 964

Community College for 11 - 16 year olds with a separate site for Whitby Sixth form students

Arranging a visit to Caedmon College Whitby

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email chloe.bullen@northyorks.gov.uk.

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