Higher Level Teaching Assistant
Yanwath Primary School, Penrith, Cumbria, CA10 2LAThis job expired on 23 June 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
23 June 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
11 June 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £26,152.96 Annually (Actual)
Higher Level Teaching Assistant job summary
- Hours of work: 37 per week
- Working pattern: 7.5hrs per day Mon - Thur, 7 hrs Fri (half an hour unpaid break ) (hours can be discussed at interview)
- Term weeks: 38 + 2, minimum paid weeks 45.797 per academic year
Yanwath Primary School, part of Cumbria Education Trust, is a rural school set on the door step to the Lake District.
Our school is very much at the heart of the local community it serves. It has a long and proud tradition of educating and inspiring the children of the local area.
As part of the Cumbria Education Trust our school is led with shared vision, honesty and purpose. We are a rapidly improving school with an exciting future; we are committed to creating a vibrant, innovative and inspiring learning environment which maximises the potential of our children and community.
The successful candidate will:
- Be self-motivated and reliable
- Be enthusiastic about inter-school collaborative working and committed to Continuous Professional Development
- Be an experienced classroom practitioner, who has a passion for working with children and who holds a HLTA qualification or teaching qualification
- Have experience of working with KS2 pupils
- Have experience of delivering PPA cover across a range of year groups and subjects
- Be able to contribute to creating a stimulating and imaginative classroom/school environment
- Have high expectations of both themselves and our children and be willing to become involved in the wider life of school
- Work well as part of a team, be flexible and highly motivated
- Have excellent Maths and English skills.
We can offer:
- Flexible working options will be considered
- A people first approach so that you feel part of our community
- Enhanced opportunities for collaborative working as part of a dynamic and highly successful Multi Academy Trust
- Excellent career and CPD opportunities.
- A commitment to constantly review and improve our family friendly polices and look for new and innovative ways to aid and support our staff in achieving a healthy work/life balance
- Employee benefits package
The successful candidate will be joining our team at an exciting time, as we continue to build on our recent successes and move forward on our journey to establish ourselves as one of the highest performing schools in our local area.
We reserve the right to interview candidates prior to the closing date.
If you have the qualities we require, along with the passion and aspirations to contribute to the success of the School and the MAT, we urge you to hit the "Apply" button.
The Cumbria Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Enhanced DBS disclosure and Barred List checks are required for this post. You should not apply if you are on the Children’s Barred List.
In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education, online searches are carried out on successful candidates.
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.
About Yanwath Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- View all Primaryjobs
- School size
- 150 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Yanwath Primary School website (opens in new tab)
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