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SEN Teaching Assistant

Bishopswood School, Reading, RG4 9RH

This job expired on 4 September 2024 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  4 September 2024 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  25 July 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2, Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
• Working pattern: Part time: 30 hours per week (term time only)
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: Salary: Grade 6 (scp8-13). Hourly rate £12.80-£13.93/Actual salary £16,793-£18,269, plus up to £1,500 per annum regional allowance pro rata, based on 30 hours per week.

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

Commitment to safeguarding

The Propeller Academy Trust and its member schools are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and young people according to child protection and safeguarding guidelines. We expect all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.

Posts classed as having a high degree of contact with children or vulnerable adults are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. All post holders are subject to the necessary pre-employment check, including a satisfactory Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check, including a Child/Adult’s Barred List check (where applicable to the role in question).

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Additional documents

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TA-Job-Description-BW-11-23.pdf - 202 KB (opens in new tab)

About Bishopswood School

• School type: Academy, ages 2 to 16
• School size: 72 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Bishopswood School website
• Email address: recruitment@bishopswoodschool.co.uk
• Phone number: 01189724311
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/bishopswood-school-reading

Bishopswood is a special school in South Oxfordshire (Berkshire border) that provides specialist education for children aged 2—16 years with severe (SLD) or profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD) and complex needs, including those children with ASD.

Holding an inclusive ethos, Bishopswood endeavours to provide specialist provision alongside its co-located mainstream partners across two sites.

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