Enhanced Teaching Assistant

Castleside Primary School, Consett, County Durham, DH8 9RG

15 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  January 2025

• Closing date

  3 November 2024 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  8 October 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £22,363.00 - £24,321.00 Annually (Actual) Based on working 37 hours, term time + 2 weeks

Enhanced Teaching Assistant job summary

Level 3 Enhanced Teaching Assistant

Full time – 37 hours per week

Term time + 2 weeks

Actual salary £22,363 - £24,321 p.a.

Start date: January 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and committed teaching assistant to join our school team and play an important role in the school’s journey moving forward. Our new Nursery provision is set to open in January 2025, where the post holder will be crucial to its development and success.

In this role, you will be instrumental in developing our new Nursery provision, supporting teaching and learning across Early Years and beyond.

The successful candidate will support our Early Years children as they take their first steps into school life. They may also provide intervention across different year groups or support children’s individual needs on a 1:1 or small group basis.

We are looking for an Early Years teaching assistant who can demonstrate:

• A clear passion for Early Years, including the outdoors
• Confidence in supporting all aspects of children’s development throughout the primary age range
  
• The willingness to work as part of small, friendly team
  
• Excellent interpersonal skills
  
• Effective positive behaviour management
  
• A commitment to ensuring that all pupils achieve the best that they possibly can
  
• A commitment to their continuous professional development
  

Visits to the school are encouraged – come and see for yourself what makes Castleside a wonderful place to work!

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

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Castleside Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: Up to 140 pupils
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Castleside Primary School website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/castleside-primary-school-consett (opens in new tab)

Welcome to Castleside Primary School recruitment page and thank you for your interest in the post within our school.

Castleside offers a warm and friendly environment in which to work.

I would encourage you to come and visit our school to see and feel the wonderful working atmosphere. We encourage all children and staff to develop to their fullest potential enabling each one to grow in confidence, knowledge and understanding.

We set high expectations and aim to build resilience in all aspects of school life.

We recently became part of NCDAT and are beginning the next exciting chapter in our school’s journey. This new partnership will enable opportunities for career development and progression so that you can realise your ambition of achieving the next step in your career. Within our school, you will have many opportunities to develop your knowledge and skills and take on roles and responsibilities, to build your skills set.

Community is extremely important to us, here in Castleside Primary. We have strong links within the locality and further afield. We use these to enhance learning across the curriculum. We encourage all staff to engage with this ethos and deliver a curriculum that provides meaningful, challenging opportunities to develop the whole child.

Visitors to our school often comment on the wonderful behaviour and politeness of our children. They are always keen to work with us. Why don’t you come along and see for yourself?

Thank you for considering Castleside Primary School for your future career path.

Please contact our school office for more information or to arrange a visit on castleside@durhamlearning.net

Kind regards

Alison Spence

Headteacher

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