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  • Start date details

    As soon as possible

  • Closing date

    2 September 2022 at 9am

  • Date listed

    2 August 2022

Job details

Job role

  • Teaching assistant

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Early years

Working pattern

Full time: 30 hours per week

Contract type

Fixed term - Fixed Term initially

Full-time equivalent salary

Scale G Point 19

HLTA - Swaffham Primary Academy job summary

HLTA to support the teaching
and learning of pupils with high Special Educational Needs within EYFS

Start Date - As soon as possible

Fixed
term initially.

Grade:
Scale G Point 19

30 hours
per week

Do you believe in inclusion and that every child has the right and
ability to shine, learn, believe and belong?

Swaffham Primary Academy has an exciting and unique
opportunity for an adaptive, consistent and patient HLTA who has experience
with and a passion for working with pupils with Special Educational Needs, for
a HLTA who would like to have a real impact and make an incredible difference
to learning and development of SEND pupils. We are seeking to employ a HLTA who
has an understanding of supporting pupils with a range of communication and
language needs, cognition and learning difficulties and associated
communication, social and emotional challenges.

Pupil specific HLTA roles are unique
and require a nurturing approach with a positive attitude, where we learn,
develop and adapt, as a team, to the needs of the child and support them to get
the very best experience they can from school life.

  • Are
    you patient and understanding?
  • Are
    you child centred?
  • Can
    you work well as a team and support teaching assistants to develop the learning
    and development of SEND pupils?
  • Are
    you keen to learn and develop your skill set and understanding of SEND?
  • Would
    you like to be part of our growing, positive team where children are at the
    very centre of all we do?
  • Do
    you place a great deal of importance on mental health and well being for all?

This is a fantastic opportunity to make a real difference and have a
strong impact on children with Special Educational Needs at the very start of
their educational journey at Swaffham Primary Academy.

In this role you would
be working with a team of Teaching Assistants, including Pupil Specific
Teaching Assistants, with the Class Teacher and SENDCo to ensure that high
needs children have the provision, patience, understanding and support they
need to access an adaptive curriculum and thrive within our setting. We have
developed a brand new, bespoke provision to support our vulnerable and SEND
pupils through their educational journey. This bespoke provision would be accessed
alongside the classroom, adapted as necessary, to meet the needs of all
learners. Alongside this, you would be supporting the planning and
implementation of an outdoor curriculum, part of the team supporting the
adaptation of the EYFs curriculum to ensure it is accessible to all.

We are
seeking to employ someone who can:

  • Support communication and language development
  • Support social, emotional and language needs
  • Be a forward thinking HLTA with the willingness to learn, adapt and be
    flexible to meet the needs of all learners
  • Work
    in collaboration with the class teacher and independently to adapt provision for SEND pupils to access the curriculum,
    directing pupil special Teaching
    Assistants as necessary to support every child’s progress
  • Promote inclusion and acceptance of pupils while encouraging
    constructive relationships
  • Promote positive relationships with parents/carers
  • Undertake structured learning activities, adjusting activities
    according to pupil responses
  • Support the needs of all learners to access the curriculum and
    make progress
  • Have the ability to be independent and work as part of a team
  • Respond
    to the needs of pupils by supporting the needs of any learner, in small groups,
    one to one or whole class, across the Primary Phase, as needed

Desirable
experience:

  • Working
    with ASD or pupils with global development delay would be an advantage
  • Confident
    and knowledgeable working with technology to support learning
  • Working with
    pupils with SEND

We can
offer:

  • a friendly, welcoming, enthusiastic and committed staff team
  • fantastic children who are keen to learn
  • commitment to CPD and professional development with opportunities
    across the Trust
  • the opportunity to work in a collaborative environment both within
    the academy and also as part of the DNEAT family of schools which includes 23
    other Primary schools
  • a happy and positive
    working environment
  • brand new SEND provision
  • The support of a Thrive School

Applications will be subject to the
Academy’s Safe Recruitment procedures including an enhanced DBS check. This post is likely to come under the
requirements of the Childcare (Disqualification) 2009 regulations and the
successful applicant will be required to complete a declaration form to
establish whether they are disqualified under these regulations.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.
Visas cannot be sponsored.
If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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.

This job post has expired.

About Swaffham CofE Primary Academy

School type
Academy, Church of England, ages 2 to 11
Education phase
Primary
School size
209 pupils enrolled
Age range
2 to 11
Ofsted report
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School location

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