General Teaching Assistant

Broomfield School, Northallerton, North Yorkshire, DL7 8RG

8 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  22nd April 2025

• Closing date

  17 March 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  3 March 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £7,881.00 - £8,004.00 Annually (Actual) Salary shown is based on the full time equivalent of £24,027- £24,404 (Grade C/D, Scale Points 03-04)

General Teaching Assistant job summary

About this Role

Thank you for showing an interest in this role. Broomfield is a vibrant school based in the heart of Northallerton and our community links are very important to us. Staff work very well as a team and we are a warm, welcoming and inclusive school. We have an exciting opportunity to appoint a new General Teaching Assistant for a term, to work with teachers to support teaching and learning, working to help supervise at lunchtimes, in a classroom setting and with individual pupils and groups.

The successful candidate will fulfil the General Teaching Assistant role, complementing the work of the teacher in and out of class, supporting individual pupils and groups.

Job Details

Hours of Work: 14 hours per week, term time only (39 weeks per year) Working hours are 5 afternoons starting at 12.30/1.00pm until 3.30pm

Contract: Fixed term until 31st August 2025

Salary: £7,881 - £8,004 per annum

Line Manager: Headteacher

Travel Required: No

The salary is dependent on current qualifications and experience, please see the attached job description for more information.

Broomfield School joined the Areté Learning Trust in November and are on an exciting collaborative journey. This is a growing Multi-Academy Trust which consists of eleven schools (six secondary schools and five primary schools) that is committed to inclusive high-quality education, providing outstanding education for all and trust wide sustained school improvement.

We are committed to providing an empowering and supportive learning environment for all staff where they can develop as exemplary professionals. In addition, we offer a positive, supportive, friendly working environment, recognition of previous service with other schools, academies and local government, CPD, training courses and webinars, expenses and travel costs in addition to a full range of employee benefits.

If you would like to arrange a visit to the school, please contact the school office on 01609 774050 or email admin@broomfield.n-yorks.sch.uk

What we can offer:

• Happy and welcoming pupils, staff and governors
• A warm, collegiate and supportive environment
• The opportunity to be part of a school which is part of Arete Learning Trust. The Trust has recently expanded and is currently undertaking an exciting journey.

We are looking for someone who is:

• Someone who is committed to impacting on the lives of children
• An excellent communicator at all levels
• A supportive environment in which to work
• Able to respect and protect confidentiality in all matters
• Cheerful, positive, friendly and caring
• Flexible, as the job is quite diverse!

For more details, please see the job description.

About the Trust

Areté Learning Trust currently has 11 schools and educates over 7,000 young people in and around North Yorkshire from ages 2-18. Our learners are at the heart of everything we do.

At Areté Learning Trust we work together and collaborate to ensure that all of our learners and our staff team have the chance to reach their potential.

Our Trust is committed to promoting:

Health, happiness and wellbeing

A safe, disciplined and supportive environment

A love of learning through a passionate and committed approach

High standards and expectations

Integrity, kindness and good manners

Respect for individuality and difference

Collaborative working to secure excellence

To realise our aspiration for every child to be the best they can be, we need to ensure that as a Trust we are ‘Striving for Excellence’.

Why work for us?

We want everyone who works within ALT to feel valued and see how their work fits into the bigger picture.

We seek employees who are prepared to take personal responsibility and constantly challenge the norm to improve performance.

In return, we are committed to providing an empowering and supportive learning environment for all staff.

Areté Learning Trust is committed to being the ‘Employer of Choice’.

Essentially this means that we want our schools and our central team to be great places to work. We want our staff development opportunities to be first class and we want to enable staff who are ambitious to grow their careers with us. To give our learners the best education and opportunities we are committed to recruiting and retaining the very best people in all areas of our organisation.

Regardless of role, we seek staff who:

Have high expectations of themselves and the people they work with.

Are committed to our Trust values.

Show initiative and are responsive to change.

Have strong interpersonal skills with the ability to inspire and motivate others.

Are creative in their approach to problem solving.

Are able to influence effectively, whatever their role.

Are team players.

We welcome applications from all backgrounds; for more information, please refer to our recruitment and selection policy statement (https://www.arete.uk/careers). If you are ready for the next step in your career and you feel that your skill set makes you a good fit for this very exciting opportunity, then we look forward to receiving your application.

Application Process

Please complete the online application form to apply for this role. All candidates are advised to refer to the job description and person specification before making an application. You should use the information supplied with in the Job Description & Person Specification to make the best of your application by identifying some specific pieces of work you may have undertaken in any of these areas. Your application may be viewed in regard to some or all of the skill specific areas over the course of the selection process. Applications via agencies will not be considered.

Interviews will take place as soon as possible after the closing date.

The Areté Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and protecting our children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to a safer recruitment process which includes enhanced criminal records and barring checks, scrutiny of employment history, robust referencing and other vetting checks. Online searches may be done as part of due diligence checks.

Our safeguarding system is underpinned by a range of policies and procedures which encourage and promote safe working practice across the Trust. On joining you will be required to undergo continuous professional development to maintain safe working practice and to safeguard our children and young people.

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.

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About Broomfield School

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: Up to 210 pupils
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Broomfield School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/broomfield-school-dl7-8rg

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