Primary Teaching Assistant (SEND support)

The Royal School, Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV3 0EG

45 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  30 August 2024 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  12 July 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Part time: 20 hours per week (4 hours per day, 5 days a week) term time only, including INSET days
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: £11.98-£12.38

What skills and experience we're looking for

The Royal School is seeking enthusiastic and innovative teaching assistant to join The Royal Primary School. The aim of the role is to support academic as well as pastoral progress of pupils who face SEND barriers to learning, to ensure that they can thrive and achieve their personal best.

The Royal School has achieved excellent academic results throughout its history and has an outstanding reputation for nurturing and developing confident, well-disciplined and successful individuals who progress successfully to the next stage of education.

To meet the needs of our diverse pupil population we are looking for resilient individuals who are willing and able to work within a team and share our can-do attitude to removing barriers to achievement and wellbeing.

If you are an open-minded individual who embraces challenges and is looking for opportunities to make a significant contribution to the lives of pupils faced with individual needs, this could be your chance to make a real difference. The school is especially interested in support staff that have experience in supporting pupils with language and communication needs. There is an expectation that staff are able and willing to support pupils in all years

What the school offers its staff

The Royal primarily serves the local Wolverhampton area, as well as Shropshire, Staffordshire, and the greater West Midlands. We also maintain our long-established boarding culture and have 80 boarding places taken up by students from far and wide.

Wolverhampton is a vibrant city in the West Midlands, where you can enjoy a rich cultural and historical heritage.

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

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About The Royal School, Wolverhampton

• School type: Free School, ages 4 to 19
• Education phase: Through school
• School size: 1493 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: The Royal School, Wolverhampton website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: lcallaway@theroyal.school
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-royal-school-wolverhampton (opens in new tab)

Thank you for your interest in the post here at The Royal School,
Wolverhampton (RSW). To help you decide on whether this is the school
for you it is important to understand where we have come from and where
we are going.
The school is built upon a combination of things; it’s unique heritage,
record of academic excellence, outstanding educational environment, and the full support and endorsement of our Patron, the Earl of Wessex.
From this, the Governors and leadership team are committed to supporting wider access for pupils, of all abilities and backgrounds, to add to The Royal’s rich and diverse educational offer.
The Royal School, Wolverhampton offers a unique proposition to families
in Wolverhampton and its surrounding area of an ‘all-through’, 4-19, coeducational, nondenominational day and state boarding school, with the capacity over time to provide for 1500 pupils, through a carefully managed programme of growth.
Whilst remaining fully non-selective and dedicated to supporting pupils in
need, this change process has enabled RSW to combine its traditional
values and academic offer with a global perspective. All this is to benefit
our pupils, and to create a dynamic outward looking, culturally diverse, yet inclusive school community. Within this, pupils acquire the rich subject knowledge, life skills, understanding and aspiration to succeed locally, nationally, and internationally.
We welcome your application to be part of our community and would love
you to visit and see the school in action or call us to talk things through.

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