SEN TA for ARB

Pensans Community Primary School, Penzance, Cornwall, TR20 8UH

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Start date details
TBC
Closing date
5 July 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
25 June 2024

Job details

Job role: Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage: Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern: Part time: 27.5 hours (Mon-Fri 9.00a.m – 3.00p.m) 38 workings weeks / 43.699 paid weeks
Contract type: Permanent
Pay scale: TPAT Point 4

What skills and experience we're looking for

We aim to recruit an enthusiastic SEN Teaching Assistant with a genuine passion for working with young people with SEN. This is a diverse role that will see you working alongside the ARB Lead and a HLTA to support pupils across the full primary age range, but with an understanding of the different levels at which pupils’ access their academic learning.

Inclusive practices are at the heart of all that we do here at Pensans School and you will also be working alongside mainstream colleagues to ensure pupils have opportunities to engage with their mainstream link classes.

As a member of the ARB team, you’ll have a passion for supporting pupils with special educational needs to access their full potential as part of a mainstream school.

All successful candidates will have high expectations and skills in positive behaviour management. They must also have previous experience of working in a primary classroom setting with children who have additional needs.

Candidates should have experience of working with children with communication and interaction needs. They must be strong team players and will need to be effective communicators as the role entails working closely with parents and outside agencies as well as other staff members and children. It is essential that they are able to follow and adapt planning to individual need, assess outcomes and acknowledge next steps in partnership with the class teacher.

What the school offers its staff

Pensans School ARB is a brand new primary provision providing specialist education for 10 - 15 children of mixed age with a range of educational needs. We are seeking to appoint a SEN TA to join the ARB Lead and HLTAs/SEN TAs in our Area Resource Base.

Pensans Community Primary School came into being in September 2005 as a result of the amalgamation of Penzance (Lescudjack) Infant School and Penzance Junior School. The name Pensans is the traditional Cornish spelling of Penzance and was selected by the Governing Body to reflect the cultural heritage of the town. Our school serves a community of deprivation and we are committed to raising standards and ensuring that all children achieve.

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.