L2 Teaching Assistant
Overdale Junior School, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE2 3YA6 days remaining to apply
Job start date
6 January 2025
Closing date
27 November 2024 at 9am
Date listed
19 November 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 1
Working pattern
- Part time: 20 hours per week - Monday to Friday 8.30am to 12.30pm, term time plus 1 week (46.65%FTE)
Contract type
- Fixed term - until 10th July 2025
Full-time equivalent salary
- £24,790 per annum
Actual salary
- £11,565 per annum
What skills and experience we're looking for
Overdale Junior School has an exciting and challenging opportunity for an enthusiastic, highly motivated and inspiring L2 Teaching Assistant to join their team of Teaching Assistants at Overdale Junior School.
The successful candidate will have experience of working with, or transferable skills suitable for supporting children with SEN. This role is offered on a temporary basis for the school year as it is subject to the receipt of SEN funding.
Overdale Junior School provides a friendly, supportive environment where all staff are valued. Pupil achievement is due to the high commitment of staff in partnership with parents and carers. We are committed to providing pupils and staff with the opportunity to grow their talents and realise their potential.
What the school offers its staff
You can also expect a comprehensive package of benefits, including:
- Annual incremental pay increases (performance related and within the pay scale range)
- Continual Professional Development
- Pension Scheme
- On-site parking
- Eyecare voucher scheme
- Annual flu vaccination
Lifestyle Savings that include:
- Home and Electronics Scheme
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Gym Membership Scheme
Staff well-being programme that includes:
- Free Physiotherapy treatment
- Free Counselling & Wellbeing Support
- Menopause Support
- GP Phone & Video Consultation – Accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
Further details about the role
Temporary post required from 6th January to 10th July 2025
20 hours per week - Monday to Friday 8.30am to 12.30pm, term time plus 1 week (46.65%FTE)
Full time salary - £24,790 per annum
Actual salary - £11,565 per annum
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.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
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About Overdale Junior School
- School type
- Academy, ages 7 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 481 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 7 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Overdale Junior School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- hr@oaktrust.org
- Phone number
- 01162883736
We are situated on the southern edge of the city of Leicester in a mainly residential area. Our school campus is shared with Overdale Infant School, with which there is increasingly close liaison.
The school was opened in September 1956, with a new extension added in 2009. We have 16 mixed ability classes across Years 3 to 6 totalling around 480 pupils. Our children develop strong relationships with the teachers and peers through their learning and extracurricular activities.
We are fortunate to have a great deal of outside space at the school, including all weather playgrounds, a sports field and a wooded area and we are an established Forest School to make even more use of the green space around the school for learning opportunities.
Overdale Junior School works with children to:
-develop enquiring minds;
-teach them to reach high standards in all areas of the curriculum, according to their ability;
-be highly motivated learners;
-develop high self-esteem and self-respect;
-encourage them to extend and challenge their own self-belief;
-develop imaginative, creative and logical thinking;
-enable them to live in harmony in a diverse world;
-develop a healthy mind and body; and
-value the environment
Arranging a visit to Overdale Junior School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@oaktrust.org.
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