Curriculum Support Assistant

Bosworth Academy, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE9 9JL

16 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  2 August 2024 at 9am

• Date listed

  11 July 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time, term time: 27.5 hours per week, term time plus 1 week.
• Contract type: Permanent
• Actual salary: £15,202 - £15,457
• Pay scale: Grade 6, pay point 9 - 10

What skills and experience we're looking for

Essential

Qualifications

5A*- C grades at GCSE including at least C grade in English and Mathematics or equivalent is essential

Desirable

Basic First Aid training or equivalent would be of benefit to the team and the wider school

Experience

• Experience of working in a receptionist/administrative function
• Good IT skills and confident in the use of Google Docs, Microsoft Excel & Word
• Ability to communicate effectively on the telephone and in person
• Strong attention to detail and able to produce work with a high level of accuracy
• Experience of working in a school or similar establishment is desirable
• Good organisational and workload management skills specifically with the ability to prioritise own work and reprioritise when necessary
• Able to work in an office environment that often demands high levels of concentration, while coping with frequent interruptions
• Able to respond to changing priorities
• An understanding of the importance of confidentiality
• Integrity and understanding of care needed with sensitive information

Personal Attributes

• Ability to relate well to all types of stakeholders for example students, suppliers and contractors, governors, local authority staff
• A commitment to positive and healthy outcomes for young people
• Ability to listen effectively and be sensitive to others
• A demonstrable commitment to the safeguarding of students and child protection
• Desire to enhance and develop skills through continuing professional development

What the school offers its staff

Professional Capital:

‘We believe in getting the right people, getting them to work together and getting them to stay’

Strategy

Description

Putting your trust in our Trust

We believe in your development. Everything we do is about creating a team of committed professionals who share our ambition for young people. If you believe in this too, we are committed to providing an exciting, enjoyable and rewarding working environment.

Coaching

Coaching is integral to our success. We support colleagues through coaching; enabling deep reflection, which has allowed us to build a bold, creative and aspirational culture, where collaboration with peers and new approaches to practice are encouraged.

Personal Improvement Plan

versus Performance Management

Instead of the usual Performance Management, we encourage our staff to identify aspirational targets through our ‘Personal Improvement Plan’ (PIP) process. With your coach, you will look to make significant progress in a critical area of your practice; we believe in valuing the process of improvement not pass or fail numerical targets.

Health and Wellbeing Strategies

Having happy and healthy staff is key to a successful organisation. The Trust is committed to:

• providing employees with a safe, healthy and supportive environment in which to work
• recognising that the health and wellbeing of our employees is important
• providing a supportive workplace culture where individuals healthy lifestyle choices are valued and encouraged

We are committed to supporting colleagues to overcome the stigma and discrimination of mental health issues within the work place. To show our commitment to this we have publicly signed up to ‘Mindful Employer’ and the ‘Charter for Employers who are Positive about Mental Health’.

We believe it is important that we are role models to our students of how to be a healthy adult. We actively promote the importance of a work life balance, offering support to staff on managing stress and workload, as well as a physical activity programme.Access to coaching, counselling and supervision is also available to all staff.

Equality and Equal Opportunities

Our Trust and its schools are committed to ensuring equality of opportunity in line with the Equality Act 2010. The Trust seeks to reduce disadvantages, discrimination and inequalities of opportunity, and promote diversity in terms of its students, workforce and our wider communities we serve.

Presumed Professionalism

We have a ‘Presumed Professionalism’ ethos across the Trust. Our staff are professional educators and we recognise the need to support staff to enable a healthy work life balance to allow maximum impact whilst working with our young people and each other. We achieve this by allowing staff to sign out during their free periods, as long as professional duties are not affected. See our policy for further details.

Development of Professional Capital and Excellence

As a Trust we always look to invest in our staff and pride ourselves on our ‘home grown talent’. We are proud of this and believe this has the biggest impact on how our staff understand their communities and make a difference to the lives of our young people.

Quite simply, our aim is to employ people who match our ethos and values and enable them to truly collaborate with colleagues across the Trust so that they are satisfied professionally. We provide outstanding training pathways which draw on excellence both within and outside of our Trust to enable you to build your professional capital.

Examples of the many opportunities we encourage staff to take up externally include:

• The National Professional Qualification for Headship (NPQH)
• The National Professional Qualification for Senior Leadership (NPQSL)
• The National Professional Qualification for Middle Leadership (NPQML)
• The Outstanding Teacher Programme (OTP)
• Initial Teacher Training (ITT)

Pathways are available at apprenticeship level, ECT, aspiring middle leader, Lead Practitioner and aspiring senior leader level. Some of these courses are led by staff within the Trust and others are externally accredited. In addition, the Trust provides the opportunity of becoming an associate SLT member, enabling middle leaders to gain insight and experience of leadership at the highest level within a school.

Support staff have their own Personal Improvement Plan that they use as a tool to create a bespoke professional development plan. All support staff also receive Coaching and training opportunities, in order to help them feel empowered and in charge of their own development.

Across the Trust we pride ourselves on equal opportunities for all staff, irrespective of background, gender, disability, religion, sexual orientation or age.

Great access to progression and leadership responsibility

Further evidence of our investment in ‘home grown talent’ is that 86% of our TLR holders have been internal appointments. We have clear professional progression pathways within the CPD offered throughout the year at all levels within the Trust.

Collaboration across all schools

We are continually developing relationships across our Trust to enable collaboration to support learning and teaching outcomes. In addition, we are able to offer a joint CPD programme to draw upon expertise across the Trust. Staff work and meet regularly in teams across schools in the Trust and we hold an annual Strategic Planning Day, where each member of the Trust work together.

Sabbatical and flexible working policies

We have developed a unique sabbatical policy to support staff to develop their interests. For some, this has been to develop professionally, whilst others have taken this time to experience travel with their family. See our policy for further details.

Flexible working arrangements are also promoted across the Trust where possible, to enable our staff to manage their work life and family commitments.

Strong Induction Process

It is important to us that every member of staff has the right start to working in our Trust. The importance of a good induction is invaluable for new starters irrespective of previous experience. To support this, we have a New Staff Induction Day before the start of term, which enables colleagues to get a real understanding of what the school is about and what it means to be part of the Trust. This day also prepares new staff for our training (conference) days at the beginning of the Autumn term. In addition to this ALL staff are invited to visit a series of lessons across the school year.

ECF Programme

We offer Early Career Teacher a robust, supportive and bespoke training programme which will enable you to develop into an outstanding teacher.

Continued ECT and ECT support

Where possible we try to ensure that ECTs and second year ECT teachers have reduced teaching loads to allow them more opportunities for CPD throughout the school week. This also allows for peer to peer observations and additional coaching to take place to develop their practice.

3DJ Networks

3DJ Networks are an opportunity for faculties to share good practice and new ideas with colleagues across the school, based on our unique 3DJ Learning and Teaching model.

Attendance of staff

Our staff are committed to their roles and ensure that students are supported to maximise their outcomes. Levels of attendance are exceptionally high across all schools and well above national averages in the education sector and beyond.

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.

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to hr@bosworthacademy.org.uk

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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Curriculum Support Assistant (CSA) July 2024.pdf - 1.53 MB (opens in new tab)

About Bosworth Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1613 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Bosworth Academy website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: hr@bosworthacademy.org.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/bosworth-academy (opens in new tab)

Bosworth Academy is a popular and expanding 11-19 school, within the LiFE Multi-Academy Trust, which is increasingly the school of choice for parents in the area. We have high expectations of all our staff, which makes our faculty an exciting and progressive environment in which to work. The team is forward thinking and extremely supportive of each other, working collaboratively to secure high standards of teaching and learning. We are passionate in our goal of ensuring that our students get every opportunity to be the best they can possibly be.

Bosworth Academy is the lead school in the LiFE Multi Academy Trust, which has been recognised by Ofsted as an ‘Outstanding’ school in our recent inspection. We continue to develop our practice as we believe our community deserves nothing less and were awarded ‘World Class Status’.

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