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  • Start date details

    February 2025

  • Closing date

    18 October 2024 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    2 October 2024

Job details

Job role

  • Other support roles

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Part time: 22.5 hours per week

Contract type

Fixed term - until 20th February 2026 - Maternity or parental leave cover

Pay scale

Salary: Support Staff Pay Scale F: £15,037 to £16,374 pro-rata per annum (Actual) (£26,421 - £28,770 full time/full year equivalent)

What skills and experience we're looking for

Qualifications: • Good numeracy and literacy skills/GCSE (or equivalent) Maths and English • NVQ 2 or equivalent in teaching assistance or equivalent experience • Training in the literacy/numeracy interventions

Experience: • Experience of working with or caring for children of relevant age • Working in a library preferably in a school or college environment. • Experience of utilising ICT and skills to access and retrieve information

Skills, Knowledge: • Can use ICT effectively to support learning • Ability to self-evaluate learning needs and actively seek learning opportunities • Ability to relate well to children and adults • Ability to work on own initiative • Able to build good working relationships with stakeholders, working well with children and adults • Ability to work constructively and flexibly as part of a team • Effective communication skills to be able to develop open and constructive relationship with a wide range of young people and staff • Participate in development and training opportunities • Knowledge of contemporary children’s literature • Skills and confidence to be able to instruct groups of young people • Able to work in a changing environment, be open to new ideas • Able to work as part of the school curriculum/resource support team • Ability to self-evaluate professional development needs and actively seek learning opportunities • Full working knowledge of school policies on child protection, health and safety, confidentiality, student behaviour/discipline and equal opportunities • Knowledge of the school curriculum as it affects the service the library provides • Knowledge of relevant policies/codes of practice and awareness of legislation • General understanding of National Curriculum and other basic learning programmes • Basic understanding of child development and learning • Work constructively as part of a team, understanding classroom roles and responsibilities and your own position within these

What the school offers its staff

The Inspiration Trust offers all staff a range of benefits via our ‘my lifestyle' portal. All eligible staff will have access to a range of benefits from salary sacrifice schemes and employee discounts.

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 Hethersett Academy

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 16
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1174 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 16

Hethersett Academy is one of East Anglia's top performing schools - recording the highest Progress 8 score in East Anglia in 2017 - and is rated Outstanding by Ofsted in all areas. We are proud of our strong academic approach, without neglecting the richness that comes from experiencing and enjoying sport and culture.

We are a National Teaching School, and part of the Inspiration Trust family of schools, dedicated to ensuring that our young people have the greatest possible opportunities regardless of their background.

Arranging a visit to Hethersett Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@inspirationtrust.org.

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