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Educational Teaching Assistant

Moor End Academy, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, HD4 5JA

This job expired on 5 October 2023 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  5 October 2023 at 9am

• Date listed

  19 September 2023

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: Special Education Needs (SEN)
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £17,511.61 Annually (Actual) Grade 7 SCP14-17

Educational Teaching Assistant job summary

This ETA post
will be based within the Additionally Resourced Provision for Visual Impairment
(ARP VI). We are looking for a candidate with experience of working with
students with visual impairments/who are blind. This role will see you working
with students from across Kirklees who have a visual impairment. You will work
to promote their access to both mainstream and additional VI curriculums within
mainstream secondary schools. This role would involve working within the base
at Moor End Academy and in a specialist outreach role to other secondary
schools in Kirklees.

Moor End Academy hosts the
Kirklees Additionally Resourced Provision for Visual Impairment (Secondary).
The Provision has capacity for 14 places, for those students who have a severe
visual impairment or who are blind. There is a high demand for places and the
Provision is currently oversubscribed. The team also support over 80 students
with visual impairments (VI) in mainstream schools across Kirklees through
specialist outreach work.

Students with VI within the Provision
and from across the Authority are taught and supported by a combination of
Qualified Teacher’s of Visual Impairment (QTVIs), specialist VI ETAs, braille
and large print technicians, habilitation specialists and family support
workers.

 Students in the Provision are educated
with a person-centred and proactive approach to inclusion and are part of the
whole Academy community. The Provision offers bespoke curriculum approaches,
individually matched to student needs. Students follow one of two pathways –
mainstream alongside sighted peers or the achieve pathway, where students
follow a primary based curriculum. ETAs are a key part of promoting access for
students on both pathways.

 As an ETA, when working within the
Academy or on outreach you would also support VI students in lessons and
through interventions to reduce barriers and promote their access and
independence in learning for example through large print, braille and
specialist technology. We are looking for someone who has a good understanding
of the provision needed to support students and with visual impairment and
guide other staff to develop skills with specialist technology, braille and
life skills.

We
are always looking to evolve and work in partnership with curriculum areas and
other schools to share expertise, skills, experience and instill confidence in
all staff across settings. Within the provision we have an open access policy
for parents and careers and encourage parental engagement for all activities at
the Academy; extra-curricular trips, events and external education experiences
such as visits to the Theatre, Colleges and Universities

Alongside the mainstream
curriculum, all students with VI learn and develop through the additional
curriculum that gives them skills to compensate for the barriers that their VI
creates. There is a clear focus on
preparation for adulthood and comprehensive support for transition to the next
phase of education and life. This can include: habilitation,
braille, specialist IT skills, independent living, advocacy and curriculum
support in areas of need. Students also have access to adapted
extra-curricular and leisure opportunities.

Moor End Academy is a very exciting school where the
Resourced Provision is embedded into Academy life. If you want to develop your
skills and knowledge of visual impairment and be part of highly rewarding,
vibrant, successful and creative team who are not afraid to take risks, then
we’d love to hear from you

The successful candidate will
join a large team of staff working at this Outstanding Academy in our Additionally
Provision team who provide support for children and young people with Visual
Impairments, their families both within Moor End Academy and local mainstream
schools.

The successful applicants will be required to undertake a Criminal Record Check via the DBS. The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

 

 

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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

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 Moor End Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1065 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Moor End Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/moor-end-academy

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