KS1 Teaching Assistant
Yeo Valley Primary School, Barnstaple, Devon, EX32 7HBThis job expired on 20 December 2024 – see similar jobs
Job start date
6 January 2025
Closing date
20 December 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
6 December 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 1
Working pattern
- Full time: This is a fixed term, term-time position with working hours from 8:30am to 3:30pm. The fixed term period is initially for the Spring and Summer terms in 2025. The salary will commence at a full time equivalent of £22,200 (based on 37 hour week and all year working). The actual salary based on 32.5 hpw and 40 weeks per annum will be in the region of £16,800.
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- 22,200
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking a Year 1 Teaching Assistant to start in January 2025 to join our highly regarded teaching assistant staff at Yeo Valley Primary School.
We are looking for someone with relevant experience of working with children, who is enthusiastic about supporting and educating primary aged children. You will need to have a passion and commitment to wanting our young children to develop a life-long love of learning by being a positive, nurturing, and supportive role model.
What the school offers its staff
You will benefit from a generous pension scheme, a health scheme, a cycle to work scheme and subsidised meals in our staff café with food cooked and served by our own chefs. Successful candidates will be provided with state-of-the-art IT equipment to help them fulfil their duties and we support all staff with an investment in their professional development through training and a good performance management process, where a bonus is payable to those who achieve highly.
You will work alongside the class teachers to support children in all areas of the curriculum and to also assist in the preparation of the learning environment, liaising with staff, maintaining pupil records, and carrying out a range of administrative tasks to support the teacher. You will also be involved in supporting children at break and lunch times in setting up our play provision or helping with the family dining arrangements in the school hall.
As a teaching assistant you will have the exciting role of supporting children in learning to read, leading PE and Games sessions, going on school trips and residentials and taking responsibility for the mentoring and tutoring of individual children. We provide a full programme of extra-curricular activities, outdoor learning programmes, sporting squads and teams, dedicated art and science rooms, a library service and 1:1 digital devices for every pupil.
Further details about the role
We are seeking a Year 1 Teaching Assistant to start in January 2025 to join our highly regarded teaching assistant staff at Yeo Valley Primary School.
We are looking for someone with relevant experience of working with children, who is enthusiastic about supporting and educating primary aged children. You will need to have a passion and commitment to wanting our young children to develop a life-long love of learning by being a positive, nurturing, and supportive role model.
You will benefit from a generous pension scheme, a health scheme, a cycle to work scheme and subsidised meals in our staff café with food cooked and served by our own chefs. Successful candidates will be provided with state-of-the-art IT equipment to help them fulfil their duties and we support all staff with an investment in their professional development through training and a good performance management process, where a bonus is payable to those who achieve highly.
You will work alongside the class teachers to support children in all areas of the curriculum and to also assist in the preparation of the learning environment, liaising with staff, maintaining pupil records, and carrying out a range of administrative tasks to support the teacher. You will also be involved in supporting children at break and lunch times in setting up our play provision or helping with the family dining arrangements in the school hall.
As a teaching assistant you will have the exciting role of supporting children in learning to read, leading PE and Games sessions, going on school trips and residentials and taking responsibility for the mentoring and tutoring of individual children. We provide a full programme of extra-curricular activities, outdoor learning programmes, sporting squads and teams, dedicated art and science rooms, a library service and 1:1 digital devices for every pupil.
You will also be involved in leading playtime activities with children and supporting within the family dining service where older children serve young children each lunch time.
This is a fixed term, term-time position with working hours from 8:30am to 3:30pm. The fixed term period is initially for the Spring and Summer terms in 2025.
The salary will commence at a full time equivalent of £22,200 (based on 37 hour week and all year working). The actual salary based on 32.5 hpw and 40 weeks per annum will be in the region of £16,800. Proven relevant experience may warrant a starting salary higher up the pay scale.
We look forward to receiving your application and hopefully meeting you as part of the recruitment process.
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 Yeo Valley Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 199 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Yeo Valley Primary School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- vacancy@tcat.education
- Phone number
- 01392304040
Yeo Valley Primary School (YVPS), joined our Trust to serve the children of the local community. It is part of the Cornerstone Academy Trust, a multi-academy trust that provides 21st century education across four schools as well as professional teacher training through the Cornerstone Teaching Academy.
Digital tools are going to be a critical part of your child’s future. Whether your child is using a computer to edit video, a waterproof device to collect data in forest school, or developing literacy, free thinking, creative and communication skills in the TV studio, the ethos of YVPS is to use the technology alongside excellent teaching to provide an outstanding education, packed with opportunity. However, balance is very important in education, as in all areas of life. The children will also play and learn outdoors, at forest school and on the allotment as well as in sports teams and they have the chance to sing in a choir, play a musical instrument and learn to cook.
Arranging a visit to Yeo Valley Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email vacancy@tcat.education.
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