Primary Learning Support Assistant

Heyford Park School, Bicester, Oxfordshire, OX25 5HD

34 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2024

• Closing date

  30 August 2024 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  24 July 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: £23,114.00 - £23,500.00 Annually (FTE) Pro rata - 38 weeks per year - term time only

Primary Learning Support Assistant job summary

Role: Primary Learning Support Assistant

30 hours per week

Fixed Term : 01/09/2024 – 31/03/2025

Salary: NJC Grade 4 (points 4-5)

£23,114 - £23,500 per annum (pro rata accordingly)

Are you passionate about educating and nurturing individuals, understanding their needs and contributing to the best environment in which they can thrive?

Do you want to work in a community school that knows each one of its children and their families well and where we can watch children progress from Nursery to Key Stage 4?

Do you thrive as part of a team?

If the answers to these questions are “yes”, then you may be the person we are looking for to join our team.

Heyford Park School prides itself on knowing our children well as individuals.

As an inclusive all-through School, we educate students from the age of 4 through to 17 with nursery provision on site. We provide an environment and experience that not only allows our children to achieve what they are truly capable of, but also equips them with excellent individual academic progress and a ‘can do’ attitude.

Be keen to encourage children to be curious, independent learners who are not afraid to take risks

Primary Learning Support Assistant:

We are looking for a caring and enthusiastic individual to join our committed primary staff team. This role will involve supporting specific individuals and may also involve working with children within a classroom and within or outside of the classroom in different sized groups.

You will:

Be unwavering in your desire to promote equality of opportunity for all.

Be willing to undertake specific training

Show clear attention to detail, especially when dealing with the needs of individuals

Always strive for the best for the children in your care

Be an outstanding team player

Be resilient, patient and enjoy seeing small achievements as big steps forward

Enjoy working with children and seeing them grow and change

Be able to engage with and inspire children

Recent experience of working with children with SEND in particular with children who have ASD or ADHD

Be adaptable, hard-working and enthusiastic

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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Visas cannot be sponsored.

About Heyford Park School

• School type: Free School, ages 3 to 19
• Education phase: Through school
• School size: 595 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Heyford Park School website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/heyford-park-school (opens in new tab)

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