Higher Level Teaching Assistant (Maths)
Twynham School, Christchurch, Dorset, BH23 1JF14 days remaining to apply
Start date details
January 2025 (Later start date considered)
Closing date
19 December 2024 at 8am
Date listed
29 November 2024
Job details
Job role
- HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £25,992 to £28,624 (Pro rated £22,358 to £24,622)
What skills and experience we're looking for
We would love to hear from you if you:
- Are an inspirational and skilled professional
- Are aspirational for career development and eager to seize additional career progression opportunities
- Are driven by the power of education to transform the lives of the most disadvantaged students
Essential
- Qualifications: Minimum 5 GCSEs (A-C), including Maths and English, or equivalent (e.g., NVQ Level 2).
- Student Engagement: Ability to motivate pupils and support learning processes and procedures effectively.
- Behaviour Management: Skilled in promoting and maintaining order, calmness, and positive behaviour.
- Behaviour Strategies: Knowledge of strategies to promote and support good behaviour.
- Safeguarding: Comprehensive understanding of child safeguarding practices.
- Creativity in Learning: Ability to think creatively to deliver engaging and innovative learning experiences.
- Teamwork: Strong ability to work collaboratively and supportively within a team.
- Independence: Capable of working on own initiative while remaining flexible and responsive.
- Communication: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, fostering effective relationships with students, parents, staff, and the wider community.
- Professionalism: Maintains high standards of integrity, discretion, and professionalism, consistently modelling school values.
- Holistic Approach: Focuses on students' overall well-being and educational needs.
- Adaptability: Ability to work under pressure, manage time effectively, and handle challenges with resilience.
- Commitment to Equality: Dedicated to providing equal opportunities and meeting individual needs.
- Professional Development: Actively committed to ongoing learning and self-improvement.
Desirable
Ability to use ICT effectively to support learning
What the school offers its staff
About the Post
We are looking to appoint an exceptional and inspirational higher level teaching assistant to join our highly successful mathematics department and SEN team. This is a very rare and exciting opportunity to join an already high-performing subject area and to support the vision for excellence.
This post would suit a colleague in the early stages of their career who is looking for a role that goes beyond the traditional teaching post. The Twynham School and TGS federation is now firmly established in Christchurch and there really is unlimited potential for our organisation to deliver a truly exceptional vision for young people across the town. The opportunity to be part of the team which works across two schools and two different contexts offer unrivalled career development for an aspirational colleague. This teaching role would be based at Twynham School for the first two terms.
This is a truly exceptional opportunity for a talented and ambitious colleague.
We are looking for an outstanding individual who will relish the opportunity to:
- Support the teaching of mathematics within a high-performing and well-established department
- Further contribute to our vision for education across the town of Christchurch
- Promote and safeguard the welfare of children and young people in accordance with our Safeguarding and Child Protection policies.
What we can offer you
- The chance to be a part of an exciting educational journey
- The opportunity to work with exceptional colleagues and wonderful young people and their families
- An exceptional CPD offer for support staff
- Strong, supportive and highly visible leadership
- The opportunity to work within Twynham Learning; a progressive multi-academy trust
- The opportunity to work in one of the most beautiful areas of the South Coast
Who we are looking for
Further details about the role
Any questions?
To discuss the post or your application, please contact Alison Brown (Senior HR Administrator) on 01202 495716 or email us at recruitment@twynhamlearning.com
How to apply
To apply for this vacancy, please submit a Job Application Form and Diversity Questionnaire by email to: recruitment@twynhamlearning.com
Only applications made using our own official application form will be accepted. You can download the form and questionnaire here: www.twynhamlearning.com/187/staff-vacancies
The closing date is Thursday 19th December 2024. (We reserve the right to interview exceptional applicants prior to the closing date and therefore interested colleagues are encouraged to apply as soon as possible).
Commitment to safeguarding
We value diversity and inclusiveness. We want our workforce to be representative of all sections of our community, so we give equal opportunities. We don't discriminate on age, disability, gender reassignment, marital status, pregnancy/maternity, race/colour/nationality, religion/belief, sex or sexual orientation. We'll only consider people who can evidence their right to work in the UK. We're committed to robust Safer Recruitment processes to safeguard children. We undertake enhanced criminal records checks before appointment. Candidates must disclose all unprotected spent and unspent cautions and convictions. It is an offence to apply if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity with children.
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About Twynham School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1771 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Twynham School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@twynhamlearning.com
- Phone number
- 01202495716
Twynham School is an exceptionally special place; a school which believes in the unlimited potential of every child, where people are valued above all and ultimately a place where every child can be successful. Our long-tradition of success is built on two vital pillars; high quality teaching and learning and, most importantly, the value we place on the very special relationships between students and staff.
Arranging a visit to Twynham School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@twynhamlearning.com.
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