Positive Behaviour Support Teaching Assistant
Severndale Specialist Academy, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY2 5SH14 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
7 February 2025 at 9am
Date listed
24 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2, Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time (Can be done as a job share): 32.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, Term Time + 1 week
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £22,986 - £24,568
Pay scale
- Scale 6 SCP 18 - 22
What skills and experience we're looking for
This role is to become a member of the Academy’s behaviour and pastoral team. This team provides a complementary service to class staff, advising staff on strategies to support pupils and working with pupils who require assistance with overcoming barriers to learning in order to achieve their full potential, or access the curriculum.
Skills required:
- Good interpersonal skills and an ability to relate and communicate effectively with children, staff and parents
- Excellent verbal and written communication
- Good knowledge of Positive Behaviour Support
- Ability to motivate, advise and support class staff
You should be an enthusiastic and committed professional who has a good understanding of positive behaviour support and is able to work on your own initiative as well as to establish effective working relationships at all levels, to be an effective member of a team. You will need to be able to be a positive role model for behaviour support to pupils and colleagues, be supportive and approachable and have the ability to stay calm in unpredictable situations.
What the school offers its staff
- Permanent Contract
- Contract – 32.5 hours per week, Term Time (38) + 1 week
- Salary at Scale 6 is SCP 18 (£22,986) - SCP 22 (£24,568).
- Access to the School Advisory Service & Bike to work scheme
- Continuing Professional Development & Local Authority Pension Scheme
- Local Authority Pension Scheme
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 download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@severndaleacademy.co.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Severndale Specialist Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 19
- School size
- 414 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Severndale Specialist Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@severndaleacademy.co.uk
Severndale Specialist Academy:
Severndale Specialist Academy is a multi-site special school incorporating our Monkmoor campus, provision within a local mainstream secondary school and a purpose built 16-25 year old provision at our local college. We work with young people with special educational needs from within Shropshire and beyond. Our children and young people can access Severndale Specialist Academy from nursery age through to 25 and have a range of learning, physical and mobility difficulties and some students require personal care. Supporting communication and enabling independence is a key focus of our work .
Severndale is a truly unique special school and is one of the largest special schools in the country. We are proud to be able to meet the needs of over 430 young people across all abilities of the SEND spectrum and across three different sites. Severndale is also proud to be part of The Learning Community Trust, a truly inclusive multi academy trust based in Telford.
Arranging a visit to Severndale Specialist Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@severndaleacademy.co.uk.
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