SEN Teaching Assistant
Pine Green Academy, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV6 0UB5 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
17 March 2025 at 9am
Date listed
12 March 2025
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
Working pattern
- Full time: Monday to Friday - 35 hours a week - Term time only plus 5 Inset days
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £26,409 - £29,093 FTE
Pay scale
- SCP 20 - 24
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for a Teaching Assistant to join our supportive and dynamic team at Pine Green Academy, a specialist school that provides high-quality education and care for students with SEMH needs.
What we are looking for:
- Collaborate with the teachers in lesson planning, evaluating and adjusting lessons for individuals and groups of pupils
- Collaborate with the student's educational team and parents to develop and implement intervention strategies for the classroom and within the school environment that allows the student to integrate behaviourally into the school setting successfully.
- Support staff in dealing with challenging behaviours
- Implement agreed learning activities using strategies in liaison with the teacher, to support pupils to achieve their next steps in learning.
- Work in partnership with other adults involved in the education process and liaises with external professionals and parents/carers in relation to specific areas of responsibility, including taking the initiative to establish links where necessary
- Support pupils in social and emotional well-being, reporting problems to the teacher as appropriate
What the school offers its staff
Shaw Education Trust offer the following employee benefits with your Teaching or Support Staff employment:
- An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (Support Staff) / Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff)
- Support Staff only based on working full time, all year - Generous holiday entitlement from your first day of employment (37 days holiday rising to 39 days after 5 years’ service including Bank Holidays)
- Electric Car Scheme: Environmentally friendly vehicles with our electric car scheme.
- Access to Medicash Health & Wellbeing Plan: Enjoy health services designed to support your well-being.
- Free DiscountForTeachers Scheme for all staff (Support and Teaching), Exclusive discounts to save money with a wide selection of discounts and exclusive offers from hundreds of the biggest brands.
- Free Eye Tests
- Cycle to work scheme
- Access to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help you grow, contribute and flourish in your role and in the Trust.
We know our people are the key to our success and so we’re committed to ensuring the employment experience at Shaw Education Trust is a rewarding one.
Flexible working opportunities
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.
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Pine Green Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 7 to 16
- School size
- 116 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 7 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Pine Green Academy website
- Email address
- jayne.clarence@shaw-education.org.uk
The School, formerly known as Valley Park School, offers specialist provision for children and young people aged 6 to 16 with social, emotional and mental health needs.
Situated within a unique and engaging urban forest campus, they are able to offer a comprehensive package of both academic and pastoral support to meet the complex needs of young people who have SEMH needs.
The school motto, ‘Believe, Achieve, Succeed’, is not merely a slogan but a guiding principle for whole school improvement, in which a culture of aspiration, achievement and personal growth is developed.
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