L3 Teaching Assistant - Integrated Resources
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Closing date
2 December 2024 at 9am
Date listed
18 November 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £21,036.00 - £22,422.00 Annually (Actual) Actual salary based on FTE of Band E point 7-11 (£25,584 - £27,269) The salary will increase by an equivalent of 5 days of pay if the appointee has 5 years or more continuous service with the Local Authority.
L3 Teaching Assistant - Integrated Resources job summary
Waverley Junior Academy is at the heart of the Waverley community. We are committed to making a real difference to the lives of our young people and will provide outstanding learning and enrichment opportunities for them throughout their time with us. To be able to achieve this, we need to have a team of dedicated and outstanding staff, who will contribute to our exceptional learning community.
We are seeking to appoint an ambitious and enthusiastic Level 3 Teaching Assistant, who will work with colleagues to support the learning and teaching of children in Waverley Junior Academy within the ARC. The post-holder will support access to learning for pupils by assisting the teacher, including the management and preparation of resources, implementing agreed work programmes both within and outside of the classroom, assisting with the whole planning cycle, and providing general support in the classroom. The Level 3 Teaching Assistant may use their detailed and specialist knowledge in particular areas to support individual or groups of pupils. S/he may also supervise whole classes for short periods of time.
This role may be attractive to those who have attained the Level 3 standard, either through achieving the relevant qualification or by having equivalent experience.
Under the guidance of others, the Level 3 Teaching Assistant will:
Support the teacher by assisting with lesson plans and evaluating/adjusting lesson/work plans as appropriate
Supervise and support pupils, ensuring their safety and access to learning, including pupils on visits, trips and out of school activities as required.
Establish good relationships with pupils, providing relevant pastoral support, and acting as a role model and responding appropriately to individual needs.
Monitor, evaluate and record pupil progress and response to learning activities through observation
Administer and assess routine tests and invigilate exams, undertaking routine marking of pupils’ work as directed by the teacher
Encourage pupils to interact and work cooperatively with others and to engage in all activities
Support pupils consistently whilst recognising and responding to their individual needs; promoting independence and employing strategies to recognise and reward.
Receive and supervise pupils excluded from or otherwise not working to a normal timetable.
Provide appropriate feedback to pupils relating to their progress and achievement.
Establish productive working relationships with pupils, acting as a role model and setting high expectations
Teach whole classes short term as and when required.
Modelling and promoting positive values, attitudes and behaviour.
Having a willingness to be fully involved in the life of the academy.
This post is for 35 hours per week term time only. Term time includes working 2 out of 5 INSET days each academic year as directed, with availability to work any or all of the remaining 3 INSET days at short notice should the need arise.
The role is based at Waverley Junior Academy but may, on occasion, involve working at other academies within the trust.
Safeguarding
ACET is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
All applicants should read our safeguarding Policy and Safer Recruitment Policy, which are available on the ‘policy’ section of our academy websites.
It is an offence to seek employment in regulated activity if you are barred from working with children. This post will involve regular contact with children, and therefore is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Applicants are therefore not entitled to withhold information about convictions, cautions or bind-over orders which for any other purposes are “spent” under the provisions of the Act. Any information that is “protected” under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 will not appear on a DBS certificate and does not need to be declared. Guidance on this can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974
Successful candidates will be subject to a DBS check at the appropriate level. Shortlisted candidates will be asked to complete a self-declaration related to their criminal record or any information that would make them unsuitable to work with children. Additional checks in relation to the Childcare Disqualification Regulations will be undertaken for successful candidates to junior academies. If you have lived or worked outside of the UK, additional information may be required from you to satisfy safer recruitment checks.
Equality
ACET is committed to ensuring equality of opportunity throughout the recruitment process. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, and your application will be assessed purely on your ability to do the job.
We undertake to make any ‘reasonable adjustments’ to a job or workplace to counteract any disadvantages a disabled person may face. Where required, we will make reasonable adjustments to the selection process for an applicant with a disability.
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 Waverley Junior Academy
- School type
- Free School, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 537 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Waverley Junior Academy website (opens in new tab)
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