
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Harris Girls Academy Bromley, Beckenham, Kent, BR3 1QRThis job expired on 28 June 2021 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 September 2021
Closing date
28 June 2021 at 11:59pm
Date listed
10 June 2021
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- SCP 4 (Outer London) £21,795 FTE; £15,392.59 actual pro rata salary
Additional allowances
In addition to the opportunities for career progression, training and development, we also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package. Please visit the Harris Careers website for more information.
Graduate Teaching Assistant job summary
- Supervising and providing particular support for identified students, in 1:1, group or whole class situations, assisting in the development of appropriate resources, schemes of work and teaching strategies and in evaluating identified students’ progress through agreed assessment activities
- Leading small group sessions and interventions as appropriate, and undertaking structured and agreed learning activities/teaching programmes as appropriate
- Attending to the students’ personal needs where required
- Supporting with behaviour management
- Assisting with the supervision of students out of lesson times, including break and lunch times, and on visits, trips and off-site activities as required
- Encouraging students to interact with others and engage in activities led by the teacher.
- Preparing the classroom as directed for lessons and clear afterwards, and assisting with the display of students’ work
- Providing clerical/admin support as required e.g. photocopying, typing and filing
- Qualifications to degree level or equivalent
- Some knowledge of strategies in working with young people with challenging behaviours
- Knowledge of some of the social issues facing students from disadvantaged backgrounds
- Awareness of Health and Safety issues in the workplace.
- Experience of working directly with young people in an education or training environment, supporting the learning of students.
- Experience of establishing and maintaining positive working relationships with a range of stakeholders, at all levels.
- Experience of managing and being responsible for own workload.
- Supervising and providing particular support for identified students, in 1:1, group or whole class situations, assisting in the development of appropriate resources, schemes of work and teaching strategies and in evaluating identified students’ progress through agreed assessment activities
- Leading small group sessions and interventions as appropriate, and undertaking structured and agreed learning activities/teaching programmes as appropriate
- Attending to the students’ personal needs where required
- Supporting with behaviour management
- Assisting with the supervision of students out of lesson times, including break and lunch times, and on visits, trips and off-site activities as required
- Encouraging students to interact with others and engage in activities led by the teacher.
- Preparing the classroom as directed for lessons and clear afterwards, and assisting with the display of students’ work
- Providing clerical/admin support as required e.g. photocopying, typing and filing
- Qualifications to degree level or equivalent
- Some knowledge of strategies in working with young people with challenging behaviours
- Knowledge of some of the social issues facing students from disadvantaged backgrounds
- Awareness of Health and Safety issues in the workplace.
- Experience of working directly with young people in an education or training environment, supporting the learning of students.
- Experience of establishing and maintaining positive working relationships with a range of stakeholders, at all levels.
- Experience of managing and being responsible for own workload.
Safeguarding Notice
Diversity and Equality
Commitment to safeguarding
The Harris Federation and all our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, references, an online search, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed.
About Harris Girls Academy Bromley
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1082 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Harris Girls Academy Bromley website
- Email address
- info@harrisbromley.org.uk
- Phone number
- 020 8778 5917
Harris Girls’ Academy Bromley is the number one school in Bromley for progress and one of the most successful schools in the country, with progress being amongst the top 1% of schools this year at +1.09 (Progress 8 2017). We are very proud of our academic and cultural achievements and are ambitious about the future.
At Harris Girls’ Academy Bromley, we aim to ensure that every student is inspired and supported to achieve her personal best in a creative and enterprising culture where learning comes first. Through the development of our learning ethos of CORE, we encourage the girls to become Committed, Optimistic, Resilient and Enterprising.
We believe that every girl can and should achieve their full potential and our commitment is one of ensuring our students develop a love of learning, a passion for enquiry and enterprise and a dedication to being the best that they can be.
Harris Girls’ Academy Bromley is an outstanding school, offering students and staff state-of-the-art facilities in new and recently refurbished buildings. Our examination results place us amongst the very best in the country and we believe that with high quality teaching and support our girls will become responsible and successful in their chosen paths. We believe that teaching is a craft and continually strive to become even better at it; our high quality CPD supports ambitious and hardworking colleagues to make a real difference to the lives of our students. If you are passionate about your subject, committed to your own learning and keen to make a difference; this could be the academy for you.
Come and see us in action: visits to Harris Girls' Academy Bromley are strongly encouraged and very welcome. Please call 020 8778 5917 or email info@harrisbromley.org.uk to arrange a time to come in or an informal conversation with the Principal.
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