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SEN Teaching Assistant

Highwood Primary School, Bushey, Hertfordshire, WD23 2AW

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• Start date details

  January 2023

• Closing date

  2 December 2022 at 5pm

• Date listed

  14 November 2022

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: 28 hours and 45 minutes - term time only plus 5 days
• Contract type: Fixed term - 12 months
• Full-time equivalent salary: Between £19,650.00 and £20,043.00

What skills and experience we're looking for

Are you a reflective practitioner who can work within a team engaging and responding to children's thinking and learning? Do you have the ability to support children with a variety of needs, enabling independence, challenge and success?

If so, we are looking for an experienced SEN Teaching Assistant to join our hardworking and friendly team.

The role will involve working with and supporting our children with SEN. This post involves working 1:1 with specific children, carrying out specific tasks, preparing the learning environment and resources, liaising with the class teacher and SENCo and supporting individuals and groups. We are looking for someone who is able to have a genuine interest in our children’s wellbeing and build a positive and respectful rapport with all children. You should have experience of working with children with SEN, phonics, guided reading, small group work and display and administrative tasks. We expect all of our team to be competent with using IT and we are always very keen to help develop specific talent within our school.

What the school offers its staff

In return we can offer:

• The opportunity to work in a friendly and diverse school community
• An attractive working environment with excellent facilities
• Well-resourced classrooms
• A supportive, enthusiastic and forward thinking school team
• Professional development opportunities.

Commitment to safeguarding

Highwood Primary is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults, and all appointments are subject to enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks, social media check and satisfactory references.

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About Highwood Primary School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 441 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Highwood Primary School website
• Email address: admin@highwood.herts.sch.uk
• Phone number: 01923 256210
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/highwood-primary-school-bushey

Whilst Highwood Primary School was first established in 1949, it has since been wholly rebuilt, moving from its original location on Bushey Mill Lane to Mead Way, Bushey. Highwood is a thriving, dynamic, forward thinking school for children aged three to eleven years of age. We admit sixty pupils per year group. Currently there are 433 pupils on roll.

We are highly privileged in that our school community benefits from a purpose-built, state of the art primary school building designed by the architect Ahlam Conti, conceived in consultation with our staff, pupils, parents and Local Authority professionals. Our school building has now won three architectural awards and we are very proud of it. Inspire All Family Centre shares our school facilities and are valued community partners.

At Highwood we actively seek to make a positive difference to every child’s learning journey. We know that teaching is our core purpose and we endeavour to ensure our provision is the very best possible. The talented teaching teams at Highwood are our biggest asset – they consist of teachers, teaching assistants, higher level teaching assistants, and SEND teaching assistants along with a myriad of support staff who work together to provide the guidance, encouragement and challenge every child needs to progress in their learning and fulfil their potential.

Our fabulous school building enables us to think, plan and work differently. Our revolutionary teaching spaces encourage us to be creative in our approaches to teaching. Outdoor classrooms have ample light and space and provide opportunities to enable learning to take place outdoors. Our courtyards and zoned curriculum spaces are at the heart of the school and are designed to enrich children’s learning through enabling first hand discovery and wide scope for play. Our schools grounds are landscaped and designed to stimulate children’s curiosity and their appreciation of the world around them – our pond, allotment and wild areas are all aimed at enriching a child’s spiritual, moral, cultural and social experiences.

Our school community is diverse and reflects the cosmopolitan nature of our local neighbourhood. Our children vary in their abilities and we aspire to instil a love of learning in each and every one of them.

Our Breakfast and Tea Time clubs are a great success and also a huge convenience to working families. We offer a good variety of lunch time and after school clubs, which are run by members of staff, or members of our community. We work with our extended school partners to provide support and guidance to families within our locality. We also regularly lead information sessions for parents who we value as equal partners in their child’s education.

Our governing body is committed and ambitious in its leadership of Highwood – governors offer good challenge and high levels of support to the senior leadership team. The ‘Friends’ of Highwood are proactive and generous in giving time to organise enjoyable events that raise additional and significant funds for our school.

We are proud of the professional learning community that is established at Highwood. It is one in which staff members support and nurture one another, continually striving to ensure the highest quality of educational provision.

Arranging a visit to Highwood Primary School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email admin@highwood.herts.sch.uk.

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