EAL Teaching Assistant
Fortis Academy, Birmingham, West Midlands, B44 8NUThis job expired on 12 April 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
12 April 2024 at 9am
Date listed
28 March 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern
- Full time: Term Time Only
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Grade 4 SCP 13 - 16 £23,115 - £23,893 FTE
Pay scale
- Actual Salary: £20,664 - £21,360
What skills and experience we're looking for
Experience • Three years’ experience of working to support children’s learning, gained in a relevant environment. • Experience of working with pupils with additional needs.
Qualifications/Training • Very good numeracy/literacy skills equivalent to GCSE C/4 and above. • NVQ 3 for Teaching Assistant (or recognised equivalent qualification). • Training in the relevant strategies e.g. literacy and/or in particular curriculum or learning area such as bilingual, sign language, dyslexia, ICT, CACHE, etc.
What the school offers its staff
- An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (Support Staff) / Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff)
- Support Staff only based on working full time, all year - Generous holiday entitlement from your first day of employment (37 days holiday rising to 39 days after 5 years’ service including Bank Holidays)
- Access to health and wellbeing support via Occupational Health
- Cycle to work scheme
- Access to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help you grow, contribute and flourish in your role and in the Trust.
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 Fortis Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1339 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Fortis Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- natalie.turner@shaw-education.org.uk
Great Barr Academy is sponsored by Shaw Education Trust. We are based in north Birmingham and have a large, diverse and vibrant community of students. We have a well-established and very successful Sixth Form.
We pride ourselves on our strong ethos which values inclusion, good citizenship, mutual respect and collaboration. We aim to provide a wide range of stimulating opportunities to expand our students’ horizons within an environment in which they feel safe and well cared for and in which they can achieve their best, develop self-confidence and flourish as individuals. We encourage the active participation of parents/carers in their children’s education; only when the school, the child and parents/carers are working together will children excel.
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