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  • Job start date

    28 October 2024

  • Closing date

    14 October 2024 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    30 September 2024

Job details

Job role

  • Teaching assistant
  • Learning support or cover supervisor

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Key stage 2, Key stage 3

Working pattern

Part time: 30 hours per week.

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

TA 3 (points 7-17)

What skills and experience we're looking for

  • An understanding of how students learn
  • Knowledge of the SEN Code of Practice
  • Equal Opportunities/Race Quality
  • Understanding of Inclusion issues
  • Experience of working with SEN children in a school/educational setting
  • Basic clerical duties
  • GCSE in English and Maths at Grade C or equivalent


What the school offers its staff

  • A motivated, hard-working and supportive team of professionals to learn alongside and from
  • Friendly pupils with a passion for learning
  • A strong commitment to your ongoing professional development
  • A staff healthcare and incentive package


Further details about the role

Learning Support Assistant

Grade/salary: TA Scale 3 (pts 7-17), £17,593 - £20,936

Hours: 30 hours per week, term time only + 5 days

Contract: permanent

Woodfield Academy is a popular 5-form entry middle school with over 500 pupils on roll, aged 9-13 years. We are a happy, vibrant learning community, with high aspirations for the children in our care and the staff team that supports them.

We are looking for a Learning Support Assistant (TA3) to join a forward thinking team, who are dedicated to supporting our children in reaching their potential. You will have the opportunity to grow professionally, develop teaching and wider professional skills and make a huge contribution to the ever-growing success and reputation of our academy. Candidates of all levels of experience are encouraged to apply.

You will be able to complement the professional work of teachers by taking responsibility for supporting pupils through a variety of strategies and scaffolding their learning in order for them to make accelerated progress. This may involve planning, preparing and delivering learning activities for individuals/groups or short term for whole classes and monitoring students and assessing, recording and reporting on students’ achievement, progress and development.


Commitment to safeguarding

This post is subject to an Enhanced DBS check and criminal background check via the disclosure procedures. Also as per The Department for Education Statutory guidance, in accordance with the “Keeping Children Safe in Education” legislation latest version that came into effect on 1st September 2022, shortlisted candidates will be subject to an online search as part of our due diligence.

Woodfield Academy is committed to the protection, safety and welfare of its pupils and staff and we aim for the highest standards in safeguarding procedures. We expect all staff and volunteers to share and promote this commitment.

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About Woodfield Academy

School type
Academy, ages 9 to 13
Education phase
View all Middlejobs
School size
578 pupils enrolled
Age range
9 to 13

Woodfield Academy is a popular 5-form entry middle school with over 500 pupils on roll, aged 9-13 years. We are a happy, vibrant learning community, with high aspirations for the children in our care and the staff team that supports them.

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