Lead Teaching Assistant - Cover
Trafalgar School, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO2 9RJ12 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
30 September 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
16 September 2024
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 per week /39 weeks per year
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Band 5 £21,129 - £22,613 pro rata (£24,362 - £26,073 full time equivalent)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Trafalgar School is a vibrant learning community where every member of staff understands the difference that they can make to our students’ outcomes. We expect all staff to be actively involved in the personal development of our young people and to show full commitment to their own and the school’s professional development.
Trafalgar School and its Governing Body are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people; and they expect all staff to share this commitment.
Key Purposes:
To deliver high quality lessons to classes in the absence of their usual subject teacher.
Accountabilities:
1. Cover/Supervision.
a. To register and record student attendance in lessons.
b. To instruct students regarding the work left by their subject teacher.
c. To provide students with the necessary resources for their learning.
d. To actively teach students throughout the lessons, supporting them so they are able to make effective progress.
e. To ensure orderly entry and exit of classrooms.
f. To ensure a calm and purposeful atmosphere for working in the classroom.
g. To manage resources effectively and ensure classrooms and activity areas are left tidy and ready for the next lesson.
h. To follow school systems and procedures on behaviour management.
i. To liaise with subject teachers about cover work and student response.
j. When directed by the Executive Headteacher, to lead teaching for classes (including planning and assessment) in the long term absence of a teacher from their subject specialist area.
k. To cover the duties of Teaching Assistants and Intervention Assistants when directed to by the Student Services Manager.
l. Support teachers in managing student behaviour through liaison and feedback.
To assist teachers in their preparation and delivery of the curriculum.
To provide administrative support across the curriculum.
To provide additional support in core subject lessons when not required to cover teacher absence.
To be a tutor and play an active role in the contribution to their House ethos.
What the school offers its staff
Do you believe that students deserve the very best education? Do you want to work with enthusiastic, dedicated colleagues who are committed to our students? This role is for those who like a challenge, working with students and enjoy doing something different every day.
This is a great opportunity to work at Trafalgar School supporting our students, you would be working alongside our dedicated team of Teaching and Support Staff.
Trafalgar School is a beacon school for Relational Practice in the south which means we put the building, maintaining, and restoring of relationships with all members of our community at the heart of everything we do. It is essential that the post holder shares our school ethos which is firmly rooted in this restorative practice approach. We work restoratively with students, families and with each other to maintain the strong community culture and our very strong inclusive ethos.
As a relational school, we pride ourselves on our calm, friendly and nurturing learning environment and the positive relationships that are fostered between students, staff and parents. We work hard to ensure our students' experience is founded on our five core values which were identified and defined by students and are also linked to the articles of the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child (UNCRC): aspiration, community, inclusion, resilience and respect.
We offer continuous CPD
Wellbeing Days
Early Finish/Late Start for Birthdays
Cycle to Work Scheme
Commitment to safeguarding
SAFEGUARDING
Salterns Academy Trust and Trafalgar School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.
All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring checks along with other relevant employment checks.
Some forms of employment, occupations and professions are exempted from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
Working within a School is exempted from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@trafalgarschool.org.uk
CVs are not accepted.
About Trafalgar School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1024 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Trafalgar School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@trafalgarschool.org.uk
- Phone number
- 02392 693521
Trafalgar School is a vibrant learning community where every member of staff understands the difference that they can make to our students’ outcomes. We expect all staff to be actively involved in the personal development of our young people and to show full commitment to their own and the school’s professional development.
Trafalgar School and its Governing Body are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people; and they expect all staff to share this commitment.
Our aim is to provide an outstanding all-round educational experience and we are committed to the success and excellence for all our students. In June 2023 we were inspected by OFSTED and judged to be a strongly ‘good’ school with ‘outstanding’ personal development. We are enjoying the next stage of our journey (to become outstanding in all areas!) and continue to receive incredible feedback about our child centred approach; our leaders share our best practice through extensive outreach work across the city and beyond.
Arranging a visit to Trafalgar School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@trafalgarschool.org.uk.
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