Learning Support Assistant with an educational health care plan
Thomas Gamuel Primary School, London, E17 8LG7 days remaining to apply
Start date details
Summer Start or September start 2025
Closing date
21 April 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
7 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5 hours per week . Mon-fri
Contract type
- Fixed term - 12month term time only
Full-time equivalent salary
- £27,729 - £28,125
Pay scale
- Grade 2, SCP 3-4
What skills and experience we're looking for
Qualifications and Professional Development Essenti
al
Desirable Eviden
ce
NVQ 2 for Teaching Assistant or equivalent ✔ AF/I
Completion of DfES Teaching Assistant Induction Programme ✔ AF/I
Good numeracy/literacy skills ✔ AF/I
Training in the relevant learning strategies ✔ AF/I
Experience
Working with or caring for children of relevant age ✔ AF/I
Professional Knowledge and Understanding
General understanding of national/foundation stage
curriculum and other basic learning programmes/strategies ✔ AF/I
Personal Skills and Attributes
Ability to relate well to children and adults ✔ AF/I
Ability to self-evaluate learning needs and actively seek
learning opportunities
✔ AF/I
Basic understanding of child development and learning ✔ AF/I
Work constructively as part of a team, understanding
classroom roles and responsibilities and your own position
within these
✔ AF/I
Other
Commitment to the Trust’s Equal Opportunity and
Safeguarding Policies and Acceptance of their responsibility
for its practical
application
✔ AF/I
A commitment to on-going personal development and
willingness to undertake appropriate training
✔ AF/I
Evidence of commitment to safeguarding and protecting the
welfare of children
✔ AF/I
To understand and comply with the requirements of the
Health
and Safety at Work Act 1974
✔ AF/I
What the school offers its staff
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
Please complete the online application.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Thomas Gamuel Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 382 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Thomas Gamuel Primary School website
- Email address
- recruitment@thomasgamuel.net
- Phone number
- 02085207031
Thomas Gamuel Primary School is a local community-centred school in Walthamstow. We serve a multi-cultural community in the London Borough of Waltham Forest.
We have recently been included in The Times Top 500 Primary Schools in England!
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and committed class teacher with the opportunities for a TLR.
If you are excited by innovation and challenge, and you are energised by opportunities to develop and share your practice, whilst learning with your colleagues and from the children you work with, we look forward to hearing from you.
Thomas Gamuel Primary continues to be an Ofsted Good School under the Lion Academy Trust and is on a pathway towards Outstanding.
With an ever-growing roll, we are looking to recruit a passionate and committed teacher to join the team.
We can offer you a friendly and rapidly improving school with a strong community feel situated in a culturally diverse area of Walthamstow with all the rewards and opportunities this brings:
• lively, friendly and aspirational children who are determined to make the most of their schooling
• a dynamic and dedicated team of teachers and support staff who want the best for their children
• a well-planned and sequenced curriculum that is fun and ambitious - meaning you spend less time planning!
• innovative CPD which is of the highest quality
• career progression and leadership opportunities
• a supportive and forward-thinking Trust Board, Local Advisory Body and parent community
• excellent opportunities for further professional development, through the Lion Academy Trust, particular if you have leadership aspirations.
The Trust/School is and equal opportunities employer and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and the successful applicant must provide satisfactory references and will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service disclosure, along with all relevant safeguarding checks.
Visits to our school are welcomed and recommended. For an informal discussion about the opportunities available or a visit to the school, please contact Mr Acheson on 020 8520 7031 or email recruitment@thomasgamuel.net.
If you are interested in the position, view our vacancy website for more information and to apply please visit:
https://www.lionacademytrust.net/recruitment/vacancies-london
Please ensure your application is completed in full to allow us to shortlist successfully.
Arranging a visit to Thomas Gamuel Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@thomasgamuel.net.
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