General Teaching Assistant
The Wensleydale School & Sixth Form, Leyburn, North Yorkshire, DL8 5HY17 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
2 June 2025 at 9am
Date listed
2 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3
Working pattern
- Part time: 30 hours per week Term Time Only
Contract type
- Permanent
Hourly rate
- £12.45 to £13.05
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic individual to join the learning support team. We are committed to ensuring every student reaches their full potential and we are looking for colleagues who will help shape this vision and join a friendly, supportive and committed team.
Working under the supervision of the AHT and the SENDCo, the post holder will support learning in the classroom of children with additional and different needs.
What the school offers its staff
Duties of the post will include:
• Preparing a range of learning resources
• Working in a team context, forging and sustaining relationships across agencies and respecting the contribution of others
• Providing, with appropriate guidance and supervision limits, educational, emotional and physical support
• Assisting in the implementation of appropriate behaviour management strategies
• Providing support and encouragement
• Providing feedback on the students to the class teacher or other appropriate person, to support the planning and evaluation of the learning process in respect of groups and individual students
• Communicating effectively with students, families and carers
• Working under the direction of teaching or other appropriate staff in supporting the learning process
• Supervising students sitting internal and external examinations as required
• Complying with policies and procedures relating to child protection, confidentiality, health & safety and security
• Adhering to the school’s safeguarding policies and procedures and having a thorough understanding of the DfE’s Keeping Children Safe in Education publication
Further details about the role
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
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to admin@wensleydaleschool.net
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About The Wensleydale School & Sixth Form
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 363 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Wensleydale School & Sixth Form website
- Email address
- admin@wensleydaleschool.net
Our school has a strong community feel and is set in a beautiful part of North Yorkshire countryside. It is a spectacular place to live and work. Our exceptional students make the school a welcoming and friendly learning environment and all stakeholders adhere to 4 key behaviours that shape the school’s mission and ethos.
Successful
Positive
Respectful
Hardworking
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