SEN Teaching Assistant
Royal Rise Primary School, Tonbridge, Kent, TN9 2DQ11 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
9 December 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
25 November 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £16,666.00 Annually (Actual) Actual Salary £16,666 (£23,337 FTE)
SEN Teaching Assistant job summary
Post Title: SEN Teaching Assistant
School: Royal Rise Primary School
Contract Type: Fixed term to cover sickness
Contract Hours: 18 hours and 45 mins
Working Pattern: Monday - Wednesday Term time only
Grade: Kent range 3
Salary: £16,666 (£23,337 FTE)
Position Start Date: As soon as possible.
Advert Closing Date (We reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date): 9th December 2024
Interview Date: to be confirmed.
At Royal Rise Primary School, we are looking for an enthusiastic passionate and dedicated Special Educational Needs teaching assistant.
We are a small and friendly school with a supportive team of staff who will ensure that you are able to achieve within your role.
We are seeking to appoint a hardworking, committed, flexible and reliable individual who can work on their own initiative when required.
We are seeking to appoint an individual with passion for children and especially those with additional needs. Your role will include working with individual children, supporting their wellbeing, providing an environment that enables all children to learn to the best of their ability and leading interventions to support those who need it most. This is a temporary position to cover sickness absence and will end when the original post holder returns.
Experience working within a school would be ideal and with children with additional needs.
GCSE level English and Maths is a requirement. Above all, you need to be committed to working as part of a team who are determined to secure the absolute best for our pupils and will work hard to ensure children achieve everything, they are capable of.
We look forward to showing you our fantastic school if you would like to arrange a visit!
Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for more information.
For an informal discussion about the role please contact the school office on 01732 354143.
Royal Rise Primary School
At Royal Rise Primary School, we are looking for an enthusiastic, SEN Teaching Assistant to join our supportive, friendly “village” feel school.
We are a small, family school where every child and staff member is treated as an individual and is welcomed as part of the Royal Rise family. You will work with a supportive, caring team of staff who will ensure that you are able to achieve within your role. We also hold a Wellbeing award and are a dog affiliated school. There is easy access to the local train station.
For further information about the school, please visit https:/www.royalriseprimary.kent.sch.uk
Cygnus Academies Trust
Royal Rise Primary School is part of Cygnus Academies Trust who are a group of friendly, like-minded schools, working together in the best interest of all our children. Driven by a desire to collaborate at every level, with an emphasis on staff development and opportunities for all. Cygnus Academies Trust schools really are a fantastic place to work and learn.
Our approach is to allow all schools to retain and celebrate their uniqueness. While ensuring; great teaching and learning, strong leadership and management, effective local governance, curriculum expertise, visionary business and financial management.
For further information about the Trust, please visit www.cygnus.org.uk
We offer:
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- 27 days Annual Leave (rising to 29 after 5 years’ service) plus bank holiday entitlement (pro-rata for part-time)
- Employee support services.
- Effective CPD opportunities
- Collaborative working with other schools
- Excellent ICT facilities
- Opportunities for flexible working
Safer Recruitment
Cygnus Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. In line with Safer Recruitment guidelines, CVs will not be accepted, and you are required to complete the application in full giving details of all employment, training and gaps in employment. Cygnus Academies Trust reserves the right to reject incomplete application forms and any consistencies or anomalies will be explored at, or prior to, interview. Any offer of employment is subject to pre-employment checks including a satisfactory ‘Enhanced with Barred List Check’ through the Disclosure and Barring Service. We will require two satisfactory references; one of which must be your line manager in your present or most recent employment. References will be requested prior to interview so please ensure that your referees are available to provide a reference.
Equal Opportunities
Cygnus Academies Trust is an equal opportunities employer committed to diversity and inclusion who welcomes applications from all sectors of the community. All people who work and study at our Trust have the right to be respected and valued within a safe and secure environment and not to be discriminated against on the grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage & civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.
Additional Information:
- References will be requested for shortlisted applicants prior to interview.
- Shortlisted applicants will be required to complete and return a Self-Disclosure form prior to interview.
- Online Searches will be carried out on shortlisted applicants prior to interview. Any concerns will be discussed with candidates at interview.
- Further vetting checks including an enhanced DBS, incorporating a check of the Children’s Barred List, will be undertaken on provisional offer.
- The Child Protection Policy can be found on the school website.
- The Employment of Ex-Offenders Policy can be found on the Trust website
This post is a customer-facing position and falls within the scope of the Code of Practice on English Language Requirement for Public Sector Workers. The school has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the JD/Person Specification. These will be applied during the recruitment/selection and probationary stages.
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
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Royal Rise Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 5 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 195 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 5 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Royal Rise Primary School website (opens in new tab)
Our school is a place where children are taught how to learn and engage in an inclusive, broad and balanced creative curriculum and a school where they are respected and valued as individuals and can expect to achieve an extremely high standard of education.
“Being the best that we can be!” is our school vision and we aim for this in everything we do.
Our school is a happy school where the success of every child matters. We have dedicated, caring and enthusiastic staff who are committed to developing the knowledge, skills and understanding which enable your child to enjoy learning.
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