SEN Teaching Assistant
Fitzwaryn School, Wantage, Oxfordshire, OX12 9ETThis job expired on 6 January 2025 – see similar jobs
Closing date
6 January 2025 at 9am
Date listed
26 November 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 1, Key stage 2, Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time, part time (Can be done as a job share): Up to 30 hours a week, to be worked from Monday to Friday between 8.40am-3.10pm. 38 working weeks plus 5.6 weeks paid holiday per annum.
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £25,992-£28,163
Actual salary
- £17,670-£19,146
Pay scale
- G6 SCP 8-13
Hourly rate
- £13.47-£14.60 per hour
What skills and experience we're looking for
We would like to hear from you if
- You have good numeracy, literacy, and ICT skills (GCSE Level 4 or equivalent in English and Math’s is desirable)
- You have the ability to work with a range of children and young people with additional and complex needs
- You are a team player who can build good working relationships with colleagues
- You are flexible, enthusiastic, and resilient, with a good sense of humour
- You are committed to ongoing personal development
- You have high aspirations in teaching and learning for all children and young people
What the school offers its staff
What can we offer you
- The opportunity to work with a progressive and forward-thinking multi-academy trust, where you are making a difference to the lives of young people.
- Opportunities for development and career progression
- Extensive induction programme and ongoing CPD and training
- A range of staff benefits including one wellbeing day per term (after a qualifying period, pro rata for part time employees), access to an Employee Assistance Programme and a workplace pension scheme (LGPS)
- Free eye test for DSE users
- Free flu vaccinations
- Free tea and coffee
- Refer a friend bonus (up to £500)
- A positive and friendly working environment
Further information about the job
For more information, please visit the school website and download the job description and complete our application form. Our website address is https://www.fitzwaryn.oxon.sch.uk
Completed application forms can be emailed to recruitment@fitzwaryn.oxon.sch.uk or submitted by post to The Business Manager, Fitzwaryn School, Denchworth Road, Wantage, Oxfordshire, OX12 9ET.
Please note that CVs will not be accepted. No agency applications either please.
For informal enquiries please contact us at recruitment@fitzwaryn.oxon.sch.uk
Visits to the school are welcome by arrangement. Applications will be considered on receipt and interviews arranged accordingly.
Please note, the school reserves the right to close adverts if a sufficient response is received. Early applications are therefore advised.
If you have not received communication from the school inviting you for an interview within ten working days of the closing date of the post, you can assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We thank you for your interest in the school and encourage you to apply for suitable vacancies in the future.
Commitment to safeguarding
The Propeller Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All staff and volunteers are expected to share this commitment.
This role involves a high level of contact with children or vulnerable adults and is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. All appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check (including Barred List where applicable) and online searches for publicly available information.
We value diversity and welcome applications from all backgrounds, regardless of sex, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status or pregnancy/maternity.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Fitzwaryn School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 19
- School size
- 125 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Fitzwaryn School website
- Email address
- recruitment@fitzwaryn.oxon.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01235 764504
Fitzwaryn is an Outstanding Special School for children and young people from 3 – 19 years old whose Special Educational Needs range from Moderate Learning Difficulties through to Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties.
The school is situated in Wantage, a small but growing market town in Oxfordshire. We have a fantastic, up to the minute, purpose built environment that enables us to deliver an exciting and diverse curriculum for each and every child. We continually strive to further develop our educational offer and in recent times we have added a Horticulture area and a bike track to our outside provision.
The school is organised into 11 classes including provision for EYFS and Post 16. Our dedicated staff team are committed to providing the best possible education for the pupils at the school, grasping every opportunity to provide a rich and diverse curriculum which often takes place outside the classroom. The staff team is committed to further developing their own skills and expertise through the Continuing Professional Development offered at the school. We work closely with parents, carers and other professionals to ensure we are meeting the diverse needs of all of the pupils.
Our vision of ‘through learning to learn, pupils will access society’ underpins all that we do with the aim that all of the pupils who have been with us leave with the skills and knowledge they need to successfully engage in the next stage of their lives and of course with fantastic memories of their time at Fitzwaryn!
Arranging a visit to Fitzwaryn School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@fitzwaryn.oxon.sch.uk.
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