EYFS Teaching Assistant

Oakfield Primary Academy, Rugby, Warwickshire, CV22 6AU

8 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  2 December 2024

• Closing date

  22 November 2024 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  8 November 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time, full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £24,790.00 - £25,584.00 Annually (FTE) Warwickshire NJC SCP Range SCP5 - SCP7 £24,790-£25,584 pro-rata salary. Actual salary £18,729-£19,329 pa. Hours per weeks - 32.5. Working pattern-Term Time Only plus 5 days

EYFS Teaching Assistant job summary

Are you qualified as a Level 3 EYFS Teaching Assistant? Are you driven to enable all children to succeed? If so, this is an exciting opportunity to join us on a remarkable journey and contribute to achieving our vision to ensure that all children reach their full potential and become life-long learners. 

 
At Oakfield Primary Academy, we are looking for a diligent, committed and caring person who is passionate about supporting children with their social, emotional and academic development to join our wonderful Nursery as a teaching assistant. 

We are looking for a candidate with enthusiasm and passion for providing the best outcome for all pupils, who: 

• is highly motivated 

• has consistently high expectations 

• nurtures a thirst for knowledge and understanding and a love of learning in all pupils 

• is committed to raising standards and achieving excellence for all 

• is a committed member of our school team 

• has high levels of organisation, proactivity and positivity 

• has a passion for driving up standards and improving outcomes for all pupils 

• able to demonstrate good behaviour management 

 We can offer: 

• A bespoke CPD package to support people at every stage in their career 

• Opportunities to learn within a network of schools 

• Leadership development opportunities that help you realise your full potential 

• Polite and well-mannered children 

• Enthusiastic and inquisitive learners 

• Kind, caring and hardworking colleagues 

• An encouraging and supportive senior leadership team

For further information about the role come and visit our school! To book your visit or for an informal discussion, please contact the school office. School visits are encouraged but are by appointment only.

Why work with us:

There are over 60 schools within the Trust which means we can offer opportunities including:
 
▶️Collaboration across other REAch2 schools, both locally and nationally.
 
▶️ Specialist curriculum support and training from our Trust experts - providing a flightpath for professional development
 
▶️ A support package for staff wellbeing

You’ll be working for a Trust with big ambitions for all our schools to be 'great'. We want to be national leaders in sustainability; to transform our teaching and learning through digital transformation and to ensure social justice is at the heart of what we do.

Safeguarding, Safer Recruitment and Data Protection 

At REAch2 we recognise that those who work in an academy are in a unique position in their care of children. The responsibility for all staff to safeguard pupils and promote their welfare, as stated in Section 175 of the Education Act (2002) is one that is central to our ethos, our policies and our actions. All children are deserving of the highest levels of care and safeguarding, regardless of their individual characteristics or circumstances, and we are committed to applying our policies to ensure effective levels of safeguarding and care are afforded to all our pupils.  

We will seek to recruit the best applicant for the job based on the abilities, qualifications, experience as measured against the job description and person specification. The recruitment and selection of staff will be conducted in a professional, timely and responsive manner and in compliance with current employment legislation, and relevant safeguarding legislation and statutory guidance. An enhanced DBS disclosure will be requested for all successful candidates, including a Children's Barred List check if the role meets the criteria for regulated activity.

For more information about our safer recruitment processes, please click here for our Safer Recruitment Policy.

All information is stored securely, and any information supplied by unsuccessful candidates will be destroyed through a confidential waste system six months after the decision has been communicated, in accordance with our information and records retention policy. 

The Trust ensures all applicant data is stored and processed appropriately. For further details on how your information will be managed during the recruitment process please refer to our Privacy Notice for Job Applications.

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 Oakfield Primary Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 411 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Oakfield Primary Academy website (opens in new tab)
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