SEN Teaching Assistant
Charter Primary School, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 3EA20 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
16 August 2024 at 9am
Date listed
23 July 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time, term time: This is a permanent post for 30 hours per week, term time only (38 weeks per year) to start 2nd September 2024. Hours of work will be Monday to Friday 8.45am to 3.15pm, including 1 hour per day OPaL lunchtime supervision, with a half hour break each day.
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Wiltshire Pay Grade D to E, spinal point range 4-8, (£23,114 - £24,702 FTE) pro rata
What skills and experience we're looking for
Some experience of supporting children with special needs is desirable, but we are also seeking a genuine interest in working with children with special needs and a desire to develop an understanding of SEN provision. The post is a wonderful opportunity for a motivated and enthusiastic adult, who has empathy with children with individual special needs, to develop their knowledge and skill in supporting them. Knowledge of Makaton, PECs and other communication strategies would be useful and the successful candidate will be prepared to provide intimate care when necessary.
What the school offers its staff
Charter has a friendly and supportive team and we are looking for someone who wants to engage with this, a team member willing to play an active role in the school and to build good relationships with pupils, colleagues and parents. All staff are offered opportunities for continuous professional development.
Further details about the role
We wish to recruit a positive, engaging and enthusiastic Teaching Assistant needed to support the learning of our pupils with SEN. This may include working within our Resource Base for children with social, communication and interaction difficulties as well as supporting children within the mainstream school across year groups Reception to Year 6. The successful candidate will be a team player who can build supportive relationships with colleagues, pupils and parents and will contribute fully to the life of the school.
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
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to sbm@charter.wilts.sch.uk
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Charter Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- View all Primaryjobs
- School size
- 217 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Charter Primary School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- sbm@charter.wilts.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01249447223
“CREATE, DISCOVER, SUCCEED TOGETHER”
We have children at the heart of everything we do. At Charter School, everyone values working together to become imaginative and creative learners through inclusion, respect and kindness. We are curious in our discovery of the world and challenge each other to succeed.
Charter School Values:
At Charter we value
• Your child
• Respect
• Inclusion
• Aspiration
• Kindness
• Enjoyment
• Success
• The School and Locality
• Opinion and beliefs
In our most recent Ofsted inspection (December 2018) Charter is recognised as a good school.
The school was opened in 1994 and is a modern, light and spacious building with fantastic outdoor space including a large field and an all-weather pitch. A purpose built, specialist resource base for children with social communication difficulties, is integral to the school. An independent pre-school operates on the school premises.
We are an active outdoor learning school and previously achieved a Challenge Partners ‘Area of Excellence’ for our Learning in the Natural Environment (LiNE) and we have a qualified Forest School Teacher. We implemented the Outdoor Play and Learning programme (OPAL) in January 2022 achieving an OPaL Gold status in November 2023. We have an established nurture room which, while based on nurture room principles, is unique to Charter.
The school has an active and very supportive parent association (CSFA) who contribute socially and financially to whole school activities and developments.
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