SEN Teaching Assistant
Seven Fields Primary School, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN2 5DE27 days remaining to apply
Job start date
24 February 2025
Closing date
17 January 2025 at 3pm
Date listed
13 December 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
- £24,790.00 - £28,163.00 Annually (FTE)
SEN Teaching Assistant job summary
We are looking to appoint a highly motivated SEN Teaching Assistant - February 2025 to 31st August 2025
Seven Fields Primary school is an improving school benefitting from high quality support and training from a successful Trust.
We are looking for an experienced SEN Teaching Assistant who:
loves working with children
is patient, calm, organised and adaptable
works well as part of a team
is able to use their own initiative as well as take direction
is enthusiastic and have a positive outlook
is creative and motivated
has excellent communication skills
is committed to the promotion of digital media
has high expectations of attainment and behaviour
has a good sense of humour!
The successful applicants will have SEN experience, be an enthusiastic team-player who will embrace opportunities to expand and utilise their skills. For potential applicants, the school offers a stimulating learning environment with the freedom to use creativity and implement ideas, opportunities for professional development as well as the exciting chance to be involved in the growth of our expanding school.
We can offer:
a well-resourced school in a bright and modern building
a supportive and friendly team of staff and governors
happy, well behaved children who enjoy learning
excellent relationships with the wider community
a commitment to valuing and developing everyone involved in the life of the school.
Our school is part of the River Learning Trust; our collective vision is to be a Trust where pupils and staff thrive in schools which demonstrate:
all-round education, academic success, lifelong learning and strength of character
sustainable continuous improvement; no school standing still
all schools being good and outstanding, or improving rapidly
collaboration that is raising standards, and reducing workload
where pupils, staff, parents and communities value all we do to support the best possible outcomes and experiences for our children and young people
If you are an experienced teaching assistant with good levels of English and Maths GCSE Grade A* - C, then we need to meet you.
Salary: £24,790.00 to £28,163.00 pro rata depending on experience.
Closing Date: Friday 17th January 2025
Shortlisting Date: Monday 20th January 2025
Interview Date: To be confirmed
The River Learning Trust and Seven Fields Primary School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. All staff must ensure that the highest priority is given to following the guidance and regulations to safeguard children and young people. The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check. Employment will also be conditional on the receipt of at least two acceptable references (one from current/latest employer) and evidence of the formal qualifications required for the role. The River Learning Trust is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from a range of backgrounds to represent diversity in line with our schools’ community. It is an offence to apply for certain roles within schools if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. You should contact the school if you are unsure if this role includes regulated activity relevant to children.
For all RLT Safer Recruitment Documentation candidates should click on the following link RLT Safer Recruitment Documents for Candidates
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. For further guidance for applicants click on the this link List of offences that are not filtered
Our staff are expected to maintain high standards of ethics and behaviour, within and outside school, by not undermining fundamental British values including democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect, and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.
What benefits does the Trust offer to its employees?
Annual pay increase for support staff (in line with grade boundaries) and for Teachers (subject to government framework and successful performance review)
A Defined Benefit Pension Scheme with favourable terms for all employees
(Teachers Pension for Teachers; LGPS for Support Staff)
Moving from the public sector? Those without a break in service can be reassured that RLT will recognise their continuous service.
Employee centred and family friendly policies and practises that support you in and beyond your workplace.
Offering flexible working wherever we can, in order to support the work life balance of our employees.
Enhanced sick pay, maternity leave, paternity leave and parental leave.
Competitive holiday entitlement for support staff (minimum 24 days rising to 32 day plus bank holidays per annum - dependent on grade of role and length of service)
Cycle to work scheme
Funded eye tests and glasses for DSE users (subject to T/Cs)
PREVIOUS APPLICANTS NEED NOT APPLY.
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.
CVs are not accepted.
About Seven Fields Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 274 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Seven Fields Primary School website (opens in new tab)
Seven Fields school is a friendly school which strives to ensure that all children have a warm, safe and caring environment within which to learn.
Our school is a place where everyone is included and valued. We believe that all children have a voice and should be listened to. We are proud that all our pupils enjoy coming to school and that they know that their education and achievement is at the centre of everything we do.
We prepare children to be lifelong learners with a sense of enquiry and a drive to succeed. We encourage children to work together to enjoy their learning and we support them as they aspire to take risks and achieve personal progress.
We aim to create a learning environment where everyone can celebrate success, people show respect for one another and where children care for their learning environment.
In our school we want everyone to feel good about themselves and how they are growing to become future members of the wider community, with aspirations for their own future and clear goals to achieve success.
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