- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- Up to 420 pupils
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Marpool Primary School website (opens in new tab)
SEMH Specialist Resource Base Primary School Teaching Assistant
More than one location, Cornerstone Academy Trust26 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
31 December 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
28 November 2024
Job details
Job role
- SENDCo (special educational needs and disabilities coordinator)
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Part time: Core working hours will be for a slightly extended school day of 8.30am to 4.00pm, term time (40 weeks) but there are opportunities to work extended hours with our wraparound care offer in our breakfast or after school club. Pay will be matched to levels of experience.
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- From 24,000
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for someone with relevant experience of working with children with SEMH, who is enthusiastic about supporting and educating primary aged children. You will need to have a passion and commitment to wanting our young children to develop a life-long love of learning by being a positive, nurturing, and supportive role model and to help identify ways in which to reintegrate them into the classroom.
What the school offers its staff
https://tcat.education/staff-benefits
You will benefit from a generous pension scheme, a health scheme, a cycle to work scheme and subsidised meals in our staff café with food cooked and served by our own chefs. Successful candidates will be provided with state-of-the-art IT equipment to help them fulfil their duties and we support all staff with an investment in their professional development through training and a good performance management process, where a bonus is payable to those who achieve highly.
Further details about the role
We are seeking to recruit a SEMH Specialist Teaching Assistant to work within our modern, purpose-built Resource Base to support our SEMH Specialist Teacher in providing a high quality, personalised curriculum to support children’s individual needs. With the school being a recent addition to our Trust, this is an exciting opportunity to help pioneer and bring about change and to provide an enhanced provision to those children with additional needs to help them to access their education in an inclusive and supportive way.
The position is permanent and will be available from January 2025, however we would very much welcome an earlier start.
We are looking for someone with relevant experience of working with children with SEMH, who is enthusiastic about supporting and educating primary aged children. You will need to have a passion and commitment to wanting our young children to develop a life-long love of learning by being a positive, nurturing, and supportive role model and to help identify ways in which to reintegrate them into the classroom.
You will work alongside the class teachers to support children in all areas of the curriculum and to also assist in the preparation of the learning environment, liaising with staff, maintaining pupil records, and carrying out a range of administrative tasks to support the teacher. You will also be involved in supporting children at break and lunch times in setting up our play provision or helping with the family dining arrangements in the school hall.
As a teaching assistant you will have the exciting role of supporting children in learning to read, leading PE and Games sessions, going on school trips and residentials and taking responsibility for the mentoring and tutoring of individual children. We provide a full programme of extra-curricular activities, outdoor learning programmes, sporting squads and teams, dedicated art and science rooms, a library service and 1:1 digital devices for every pupil.
You will also be involved in leading playtime activities with children and supporting within the family dining service where older children serve young children each lunch time.
You will benefit from a generous pension scheme, a health scheme, a cycle to work scheme and subsidised meals in our staff café with food cooked and served by our own chefs. Successful candidates will be provided with state-of-the-art IT equipment to help them fulfil their duties and we support all staff with an investment in their professional development through training and a good performance management process, where a bonus is payable to those who achieve highly.
Core working hours will be for a slightly extended school day of 8.30am to 4.00pm, term time (40 weeks) but there are opportunities to work extended hours with our wraparound care offer in our breakfast or after school club. Pay will be matched to levels of experience.
We look forward to receiving your application and hopefully meeting you as part of the recruitment process.
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Visas cannot be sponsored.
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About Cornerstone Academy Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- vacancy@tcat.education
- Phone number
- 01392304040
A multi academy trust, based in Exeter, made up of seven primary schools.
School Details
Marpool Primary School
Arranging a visit to Cornerstone Academy Trust
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email vacancy@tcat.education.
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