SEN Teaching Assistant

Longspee Academy, Poole, Dorset, BH17 8PJ

18 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  January 2025

• Closing date

  8 January 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  20 December 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £18,856.72 - £19,774.73 pro rata (£25,183 - £26,409 Full Time Equivalent)

SEN Teaching Assistant job summary

We are looking for someone who has the desire to support our Academy in ensuring our pupils reach their potential. You will be dynamic, resilient and motivated with a willingness to uphold our high expectations to ‘Support Young People to be Independent, Successful and Confident Adults’.

Longspee Secondary is a Specialist Provision for Autistic young people, some of whom may have associated SEMH needs. We offer a rich and high-quality learning experience for our students, with a relentless and positive focus upon Happy, Safe, Progress to help ensure that our students can build and achieve a successful adult life.

To happily thrive in the role of a Teaching Assistant, you will be resourceful and creative, highly resilient, and able to work well as a member of a high-quality team. You will also be able to relate well with others, demonstrate highly developed interpersonal and communication skills, and have a good sense of positive humour. In addition, you will be able to demonstrate an understanding that success at Longspee Secondary is achieved by developing the excellence and independence of others, with a mindset of growth, consistency and excellence.

We offer our students a wide and varied curriculum experience, both within the school grounds and also the local area, and are always looking at enrichment options; so if you have skills, interests, or an area of knowledge that inspires you, we’d love to work with your enthusiasm to engage the learning of others.

What we have to Offer:

·        A visible and approachable senior leadership team and an enthusiastic and committed team of teachers and support staff.

·        A strong support network both within the school and across Authentic Education Group.

·        All staff are part of a professional learning community in which evidence-informed CPD is designed to meet individual needs.

·        Strong potential for career progression.

·        A culture that respects work-life balance and an ongoing commitment to wellbeing with a dedicated Wellbeing Champion.

·        An Employee Assistance Programme including in the moment support and counselling sessions with an external provider.

·        AAT Staff benefits include free eye testing for DSE users through Specsavers, free will writing through Dunham McCarthy Solicitors and reduced price corporate gym membership through BH Live.

·        A competitive pension through Teachers’ Pensions or The Local Government Pension Scheme for support staff. 

Should you wish to arrange a visit or an informal discussion regarding the role, please contact Alison Evans; HR Academy Lead at alison.evans@Longspee-academy.co.uk .

Together we are Courageous, Innovative, Excellent

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.

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Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Longspee Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 5 to 16
• School size: 117 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 5 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
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