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Named Pupil Teaching Assistant

Lawn Manor Academy, Swindon, SN3 1ER

This job expired on 24 September 2023 – see similar jobs

• Closing date

  24 September 2023 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  7 September 2023

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: Special Education Needs (SEN)
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £20,441.00 - £21,968.00 Annually (FTE) Grade C

Named Pupil Teaching Assistant job summary

Lawn Manor Academy
Named Pupil Teaching Assistant

Salary: Grade C, £20,441 - £21,968 (DOE), FTE, pro rata
Actual Salary: £11,879 - £12,767 (DOE) actual salary, pro rata

Contract: Fixed term until August 2027, term time only, 25 hours per week

You would be working with a named pupil on a 1:1 basis. This would include supporting the pupil in class, delivering any relevant intervention sessions, and ensuring the pupil has access to the curriculum at the appropriate level.

As a successful applicant, you will:

•         Have great communication skills along with IT & Administrative knowledge.
•        Be willing to take part in ongoing training and update skills including completing a vocational qualification.
•        Demonstrate discretion to make minor decisions, under the direction of the line manager.
•         Show emotional resilience, working with children and supporting behaviour management.

Why choose us?

Lawn Manor Academy is part of the Ascend Learning Trust (ALT) based in Swindon. We offer a fantastic benefits scheme, with discounts on food and clothes retailers, to holidays and cinema with online fitness and recipes from Hello Fresh. Our school is set in the beautiful Lawn Manor Woods in Old Town Swindon.

What we offer:

• ·        The opportunity of working within a supportive, friendly, and well-run school.
• The Trusts commitment to staff wellbeing including generous calendar dates and INSET days.
• A strong commitment to your professional development and career management.
• Excellent CPD opportunities to grow and development through mentorship and coaching.
• Reward and recognition, celebrating staff success. 
• Leadership development opportunities both internally and across other schools in the Trust.
• A successful ECT support program.
• Onsite parking.
• Pension Scheme.
• Courteous and hardworking pupils.
• Benefits for discounts via an online staff portal.

If you have any further questions around this role, please contact recruitment@ascendlearningtrust.org.uk

Closing Date: Midnight, Sunday 24th September 2023
Interview Date: w/c Monday 2nd October 2023
Start Date: TBC

Please note if we receive sufficient applications, we may close this job role earlier.

Safeguarding Statement:

Ascend Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We particularly welcome applications from underrepresented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation, or religion.

Please note: Any position that involves working with children requires declaration of ALL convictions/cautions regardless of whether these are deemed as spent and a DBS check will be carried out before any employment commences.

In line with KCSIE 2023 and safer recruitment practices, the school will conduct an online search for all shortlisted candidates. The online search is part of our safeguarding checks and will seek publicly available information on candidates’ suitability to work with children. Shortlisted candidates will be provided with further guidance and will be asked to clarify their online presence.

References will be obtained before interview at shortlisting stage and may be used in the interview process. If previous employment has included working with children, then at least one referee must be from this employment regardless of whether this is the current or most recent employment Any gaps in employment must be detailed and an explanation provided in the relevant section.

 

Commitment to safeguarding

Ascend Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Any position that involves working with children requires declaration of ALL convictions/cautions regardless of whether these are deemed as spent and a DBS check will be carried out before any employment commences. References will be obtained before interview at shortlisting stage and may be used in the interview process. Any gaps in employment must be detailed and an explanation provided in the relevant section.

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About Lawn Manor Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 939 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Lawn Manor Academy website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/lawn-manor-academy (opens in new tab)

Lawn Manor Academy is a rewarding and friendly environment to work in with staff who always put the children first and are dedicated to ‘Inspiring and Creating Futures for All’. The school itself has undergone a period of rapid change over the last few years and this post is an opportunity to shape the school as we enter our next chapter.

Our Senior Leadership Team (SLT) are an established team consisting of Headteacher, two Deputy Headteachers and three Assistant Headteachers.

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