Higher Level Teaching Assistant (with SEN experience)
St Andrew's Church of England Primary School, Shaftesbury, Dorset, SP7 0PFThis job expired on 9 August 2024
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
9 August 2024 at 9am
Date listed
23 July 2024
Job details
Job role
- HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time, part time: 32.5 hours per week, 39 weeks per year (Term Time plus inset days). The hours of work for this role will be 8.20am – 3.20pm with a 30-minute unpaid lunch break.
Contract type
- Fixed term - until 23.07.2025
Pay scale
- Grade 9, Point 19: ACTUAL- £23,005 per annum
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking to appoint an exceptional Higher Level Teaching Assistant with SEN experience with energy and enthusiasm to join our team at St Andrew’s Primary School. The successful candidate will work on a 1:1 basis with a named child and may be used to cover lessons across the school and plan for directed lessons. This is a wonderful opportunity to join a school within a Trust with great potential, some real strengths and the ability and desire to develop further.
What the school offers its staff
As part of SAST, we can offer you a range of benefits including:
- High- quality CPD opportunities
- A strong and highly experienced network of Trust senior leaders
- Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- On-site nursery provision at some of our schools
- Cycle to work scheme
Further details about the role
SAST will conduct online searches of shortlisted candidates. In line with KCSIE guidance, this will be part of safer recruitment checks, and the search will purely be based on whether an individual is suitable to work with children. As care must be taken to avoid unconscious bias and any risk of discrimination, a person who will not be on the appointment panel will conduct the searches and will only share information if and when findings are relevant and of concern.
SAST recognises the benefit of having a
diverse workforce and is committed to building a workforce which reflects
diversity from the communities it serves. SAST values the contributions from
all staff from a wide range of different backgrounds and actively seeks to
promote an environment that is free from discrimination and harassment and at
the same time supports fair promotion and cultural acceptance. Under the
provision of the Equality Act 2010 SAST welcomes applications from everyone and
operates a recruitment process which is fair and does not discriminate against
or disadvantage anyone because of their age, disability, gender reassignment
status, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race or
nationality, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.
This role is UK- based and your right to work will need to be established as part of the appointment process.
Commitment to safeguarding
Safeguarding responsibilities associated with this role will include engagement in regulatory activity, such as administering first aid or supporting an upset child. It will have contact with young people on a day-to day basis. SAST is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will meet the person specification and is subject to an enhanced DBS and Children’s Barred List check. The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.
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About St Andrew's Church of England Primary School
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 81 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
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- Email address
- office@standrewsfontmell.co.uk
St Andrew’s is a small church school situated in the heart of the delightful Dorset village of Fontmell Magna. Families come to us from Shaftsbury and many of the surrounding villages. In June 2019 the school become an academy and joined the Sherborne Area Schools’ Trust (SAST). We enjoy good relationships with other trust schools and benefit from working in collaboration with them.
Being a small primary school allows us to fully embrace our community, coming here is like being part of an extended family. Our connection with village life, the church and our families is strong and we flourish because of this joined up approach. Our pupils BELIEVE that all things are possible and because of our belief in ourselves, each other and God we THRIVE, LEARN and SHINE together.
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