SEN Teaching Assistant

Chestnuts Primary School, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK3 5EN

6 days remaining to apply

Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
3 November 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
18 October 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: £17,302.00 Annually (Actual) From £24,790 FTE

SEN Teaching Assistant job summary

SEND Teaching Assistant

Grade: B from £17,302 per annum (actual)

Contract: Part time, Temporary to 31st August 2024 (Term time) (32.5 hours per week, 38 weeks per year) - Flexible hours will be considered

Accountable to: Headteacher

About this Role

Chestnuts School is part of Inspiring Futures through Learning, Multi-Academy Trust who inspire all our futures through learning together. At IFtL we are never alone. We know we are stronger together - one united family striving for excellence for all, in everything we do. The ideal candidate will have experience of working with SEND children We are looking for supportive, caring and enthusiastic people to join us as Teaching Assistants and who are able to engage and communicate well, and able to model the school expectations. Flexibility, a willingness to uphold our values and manage change as our school develops are key skills required for TA posts at Chestnuts.

Good basic literacy and math’s skills are essential for this post. In your application, please specify your individual skills and strengths including any interventions, specialist provision or training you have undertaken. We are able to offer imaginative and motivated children, an excellent learning environment and friendly and supportive staff with a wealth of CPD opportunities across the trust.

We invest heavily in professional development to enable our staff to flourish and to continually learn and develop. All staff benefit from professional courses in addition to bespoke in-house coaching and CPD opportunities.

Other information

Inspiring Futures through Learning is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All employees are expected to share this commitment, to follow the Trust’s safeguarding policies and procedures and to behave appropriately towards children at all times, both in work and in their personal lives.

Our children and young people come from a wide range of backgrounds, and so do our colleagues. We aim to reflect and celebrate diversity in our workplace in order to create an inclusive culture that adds real value to our vision of inspiring the futures of us all through learning together. Inspiring Futures Through Learning is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.

All employees are expected to share this commitment, to follow the Trust’s safeguarding policies and procedures and to behave appropriately towards children at all times, both in work and in their personal lives.

All school based posts are defined as Regulated Activity and therefore this post is subject to an Enhanced with Barred List Criminal Records Bureau check.

As part of the Inspiring Futures through Learning Multi Academy Trust, successful candidates will have full access to our staff benefits package including CPD, Employee Assistance Programme, discount on gym membership, cinema tickets, cycle to work scheme and much more.

To find out more about this role please call Chestnuts Primary School to speak to the Headteacher on 01908 373748.

Closing date: 3 November

Interviews: 7 November 2024

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.