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Level 3 Teaching Assistant - key worker for specific child with SEND

Cambourne Village College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB23 6FR

This job expired on 11 October 2024 – see similar jobs

• Closing date

  11 October 2024 at 9am

• Date listed

  30 September 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £24,294.00 - £25,979.00 Annually (FTE) NJC Scale 4, points 7-11. Actual salary £12,181.50 per annum

Level 3 Teaching Assistant - key worker for specific child with SEND job summary

We are seeking a talented, committed and ambitious Level 3 Teaching Assistant to join our excellent staff to work as a Key worker for a specific child with SEND needs.

Our Centre and Inclusion team supports students with a range of Special Educational Needs and Disabilities and behavioral needs and implements a variety of different support methods and programes.

This role will be to enhance the learning and social success of the pupil with and will play a key role in delivering support to this pupil. This will include in class support and enabling the child to access as much of the curriculum as they can under the direction of subject specialists, as well as providing intimate care needs (including manual handling – training to be provided if needed), administering medication or working with Occupation therapists or physiotherapists.

Cambourne Village College is an Ofsted ‘Outstanding’ rated, over-subscribed secondary school, eight miles from Cambridge. We opened as an academy of the Cam Academy Trust in September 2013. Our ethos is aspirational and inclusive, our staff is highly motivated, our pupils courteous and hard-working, and we have excellent facilities. A 350 place sixth form opened in September 2024, with 175 students in each of Years 12 and 13. Joining Cambourne Village College represents a unique opportunity to work in a newly-established school within a wider, high-quality Academy Trust that gives excellent possibilities for professional and career development.

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.

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About Cambourne Village College

• School type: Free School, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1380 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Cambourne Village College website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/cambourne-village-college (opens in new tab)

Cambourne Village College, an academy of The Cam Academy Trust, opened in brand new premises in September 2013 with just five forms of Year 7 pupils. Serving one of the fastest-growing communities in the UK, we now have more than 1300 pupils on roll, with major further expansion planned, including the opening of our new sixth form centre in September 2024.

The College has enjoyed remarkable success since opening, gaining an early Ofsted Outstanding rating along with designation as a Leading Edge School. Our pupils achieve excellent results in public examinations via a curriculum designed to offer maximum breadth and opportunity for all abilities. Our extra-curricular offer is also outstanding: annual musical drama performances, termly concerts, a wide range of competitive and recreational sporting activities, and many further clubs and events are on offer. In 2019, we were granted the International School Award by the British Council and are looking forward to re-launching our programme of international visits and exchanges this year.

We strive to be a welcoming and inclusive school for our pupils and also to fulfil our Village College ethos in serving the whole community: we support an active adult education programme and more than 30 local groups and organisations make use of the school’s facilities, out of hours. This unusual commitment to our local community was a key factor in our winning a prestigious Silver Award in the ‘Making a Difference’ category of the Pearson School of the Year celebrations in 2018.

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