SEMH Teaching Assistant
Marpool Primary School, Exmouth, Devon, EX8 3QW22 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
6 February 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
14 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full 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
- 19000
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.
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.
What the school offers its staff
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.
About Marpool Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- Up to 420 pupils
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Marpool Primary School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- vacancy@tcat.education
- Phone number
- 01392304040
Marpool Primary School (MPS), joined our Trust in September 2024 to serve the children of the local community. It is part of the Cornerstone Academy Trust, a multi-academy trust that provides 21st century education across four schools as well as professional teacher training through the Cornerstone Teaching Academy.
Digital tools are going to be a critical part of your child’s future. Whether your child is using a computer to edit video, a waterproof device to collect data in forest school, or developing literacy, free thinking, creative and communication skills in the TV studio, the ethos of MPS is to use the technology alongside excellent teaching to provide an outstanding education, packed with opportunity. However, balance is very important in education, as in all areas of life. The children will also play and learn outdoors, at forest school and on the allotment as well as in sports teams and they have the chance to sing in a choir, play a musical instrument and learn to cook.
Arranging a visit to Marpool Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email vacancy@tcat.education.
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