Lead Teaching Assistant
Allestree Woodlands School, Derby, Derbyshire, DE22 2LWThis job expired on 30 January 2023 – see similar jobs
Start date details
Required for Easter 2023 or sooner if available.
Closing date
30 January 2023 at 9am
Date listed
10 January 2023
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern
- Full time: The Lead Teaching Assistant position is full time in term time (37 hours per week for 39 weeks per year).
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- NJC Pay Scale 5 points 12 – 17 £24,496 - £26,485 (pro rata to days and hours worked £21,010 - £22,715 per year).
Pay scale
- NJC Pay Scale 5 points 12 – 17
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for a committed and highly effective professional who is able to get the best out of students. An area of responsibility will be tailored to experience. Candidates must be at least L3 qualified and have an area of SEND specialism or interest. Experience in one of the following areas is essential: reading support, SEMH or autism.
What the school offers its staff
Allestree Woodlands School is a popular and successful 11-18 school, providing high quality education for 1350 students (200+ in the sixth form). The school is situated on the northern edge of the city of Derby in a very pleasant setting overlooking the Kedleston Hall National Trust estate. We work as a great team together and are committed to the continuing professional development of all colleagues
The successful candidate will join our committed and collaborative Enhanced Learning Team in supporting SEND students across a variety of curriculum areas. The school takes pride in being inclusive as recognised by Ofsted in our recent inspection. Our team is led by an Assistant Headteacher for Inclusion who is our SENCo, and two Deputy SENCos, one of whom leads on the ERF provision for deaf students.
The Enhanced Learning Faculty is successful in assisting students with a range of educational needs throughout school. We aim to meet the needs of students with general learning difficulties, autism, ADHD, dyslexia, dyspraxia, deafness and visual impairment and social, emotional and mental health needs.
Commitment to safeguarding
At AWS we are fully committed to safeguarding our students and staff. We take notice of and adhere to all the national and local policies and guidance in regard to Safeguarding Children and Young People.
Everyone who comes into contact with children and their families has a responsibility to safeguard children.
All appointments are made in accordance with safer recruitment practices and KCSIE. Online checks will be carried out for shortlisted candidates, and all appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check, satisfactory references and checks regarding suitability to work with children.
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About Allestree Woodlands School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1414 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Allestree Woodlands School website
- Email address
- k.challands@woodlands.derby.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01332551921
At Allestree Woodlands, we pride ourselves on the warm and friendly atmosphere of the school. Relationships are important and we work to ensure that every student feels safe and happy. We strive for the best achievements for our students and believe that every young person deserves the chance to feel successful at school.
Our school aims are summed up in our mission statement:
Enabling aspiration and achievement for all, through delivery of a knowledge-rich curriculum underpinned by our CORE values:
COURAGE OPTIMISM REGARD ENDEAVOUR
This means that staff at Allestree Woodlands continue to review and improve our curriculum to ensure that knowledge acquisition is clear, coherent and that year on year learning builds on what has gone before so that students feel that they are moving forward and knowing more. As I have said to our students, this acquisition of knowledge gives power and confidence to believe in ourselves and put ourselves in new, unfamiliar, challenging and exciting situations in the future. We seek to equip all of our students to use their knowledge to plan for and achieve their next steps and to be aspirational for their futures. To do this, we must both support and challenge all young people to aspire, to dream of what might lie ahead and to work hard to make those ambitious goals possible. Why settle for less than our very best? When aspiration and hard work are combined, people achieve amazing things.
We are lucky to be a thriving school with a growing intake, a wide level 3 subject offer at post-16, superb extra-curricular opportunities in sports, technology and the creative and performing arts as well as possessing tremendous facilities. If you would like to know more, take a look at our website or arrange a visit. We have open evenings planned for this half-term for prospective students and their parents and you are most welcome to come along and get a feel for what Allestree Woodlands is all about.
Mrs G. Penny - Headteacher
Arranging a visit to Allestree Woodlands School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email k.challands@woodlands.derby.sch.uk.
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