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  • Start date details

    As soon as possible

  • Closing date

    30 September 2024 at 8am

  • Date listed

    16 September 2024

Job details

Job role

  • Teaching assistant
  • HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
  • Other support roles

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Key stage

Key stage 3, Key stage 4

Working pattern

Full time: Full Time 35 hours per week, Term Time + Inset

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£23,115 - £25,613 (actual salary)

Pay scale

Salary: Grade 5 Points 13-19

What skills and experience we're looking for

The academy is seeking to appoint an outstanding, motivated, inspirational Specialist EAL Teaching Assistant who is passionate about ensuring all young people have access to the highest levels of support enabling them to flourish. You will make a difference to the whole TEMA community but particularly to those students who have additional needs and require additional support and extended services to overcome barriers to learning. You will join a team committed to improving outcomes for our young people. You will have excellent interpersonal skills and be able to work with and motivate a wide range of staff, stakeholders and students to achieve shared goals. You will be a passionate advocate for students’ personal development, champion mental health and ensure students benefit from highly effective interventions and pastoral support whilst maintaining the highest expectations of all. You will work with a wide range of staff both internally and externally to develop both; best practice and supportive relationships which enable young people to realise their full potential.

What the school offers its staff

The successful candidate will join an academy that is relentless in its drive to ensure our students and staff alike achieve their very best and are proud of themselves. We are proud to serve our diverse and inclusive community and wish to appoint a practitioner who shares our commitment to young people in challenging circumstances who believes that education is the best way to ensure social justice.

The East Manchester Academy is committed to safeguarding, child protection and promoting the well-being of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check prior to starting.

We value our colleagues and also offer the following:

  • A minimum 20% PPA allowance for all staff
  • Joint PPA time for departments to plan collaboratively
  • Bike2work scheme
  • Gym membership
  • Employee Assistance
  • Health Cash Plan
  • A comprehensive CPD programme to support pedagogical and leadership development
  • A low stakes approach to QA to ensure teachers keep getting better
  • Strategic partnerships with external organisations to support staff development
  • A genuine commitment to wellbeing and effective workload management

Further details about the role

This is an exciting time for the academy and to help transform the life chances of students within East Manchester. As you will see from our recent Ofsted inspection report, we have driven rapid improvements to all areas and are ready to accelerate further. We are a growing academy and we are now looking to add further capacity to our team as we enter the next stage of our development; to become an exceptional school that ensures the children of East Manchester flourish both academically and socially. We are a forward thinking and happy school, we embrace research and work collaboratively with colleagues within and beyond our trust to drive standards.

Please visit our website to learn more about us (https://www.theeastmanchesteracademy.co.uk) and contact: recruitment@temac.co.uk if you would like to arrange a visit to the academy prior to application.

The academy is part of The Greater Manchester Education Trust. The Trust is a multi-academy trust, which came into effect in September 2022 comprising four schools; The East Manchester Academy, a mixed school of over 1,000 students in the heart of Manchester’s re-generation area, Whalley Range 11-18 High School, a girls school of 1,500 students, Levenshulme High School, a girls school which is three miles away with a very similar, diverse community and Parrs Wood 11-18 High School a mixed school of nearly 2000 students in the heart of East Didsbury.

Please return your application form to recruitment@temac.co.uk by 08:00am on Tuesday 9th July 2024

Shortlisting will take place on: Friday 12th July 2024

Interview Date: Wednesday 17th July 2024

Successful applicants are subject to appropriate vetting procedures and a satisfactory Enhanced Check from the Disclosure and Barring Service


Commitment to safeguarding

The East Manchester Academy is committed to safeguarding, child protection and promoting the well-being of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to appropriate vetting procedures and a satisfactory Enhanced Check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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About The East Manchester Academy

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 16
Education phase
Secondary
School size
999 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 16
Phone number
01612308039

‘The East Manchester Academy is a beacon of hope and aspiration for pupils’ (Ofsted 2023).

This is an exciting time for the academy and to help transform the life chances of students within East Manchester. As you will see from our recent Ofsted inspection report, we have driven rapid improvements to all areas and are ready to accelerate further. We are a growing academy and we are now looking to add further capacity to our team as we enter the next stage of our development; to become an exceptional school that ensures the children of East Manchester flourish both academically and socially. We are a forward thinking and happy school, we embrace research and work collaboratively with colleagues within and beyond our trust to drive standards.

The academy is part of The Greater Manchester Education Trust. The Trust is a multi-academy trust, which came into effect in September 2022 comprising four schools; The East Manchester Academy, a mixed school of over 1,000 students in the heart of Manchester’s re-generation area, Whalley Range 11-18 High School, a girls school of 1,500 students, Levenshulme High School, a girls school which is three miles away with a very similar, diverse community and Parrs Wood 11-18 High School a mixed school of nearly 2000 students in the heart of East Didsbury.

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