Level 3 Early Years SEND Practitioner

Thorns Primary School, Brierley Hill, West Midlands, DY5 2JY

8 days remaining to apply

Job start date
6 January 2025
Closing date
29 November 2024 at 3pm
Date listed
19 November 2024

Job details

Job role: Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage: Early years, Key stage 1
Working pattern: Full time: Monday - Friday (32.5 hours per week)
Contract type: Fixed term - 2 Terms (Jan 2025 - August 2025)
Full-time equivalent salary: Pay Scale: Grade 3 £26,409 - £29,572 pro rata (Actual Salary £20,560 per annum)

What skills and experience we're looking for

Thorns Primary School is seeking to appoint an experienced Teaching Assistant Level 3 to work with teachers as part of a professional team to support teaching and learning for SEN pupils. Providing specialist assistance to pupils who need help to overcome barriers to learning, such as those with moderate, severe, profound, and multiple learning difficulties and or behavioural, social, communication, sensory or physical disabilities:-

To support a pupil with EHCP in an EYFS setting.
Experience of both SEND and EYFS is essential.
Pathways, 1:1 and group work.

What the school offers its staff

An outstanding, innovative, and ambitious executive leadership team who, through their passion and drive to improve outcomes for children, support and motivate each other to achieve great things! In return for your commitment to our Trust, we can offer:

Sector competitive pay.
Excellent CPD opportunities.
A fantastic supportive working environment.
The opportunity to make a significant difference in the lives of children across Birmingham.
Access to our mental health and wellbeing platform, ExcelWell.
The opportunity to develop into a highly effective leader.
24/7 advice and helpline.
Flexible working arrangements.

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.