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  • Start date details

    As soon as possible

  • Closing date

    4 October 2024 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    27 September 2024

Job details

Job role

  • Teaching assistant

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Early years

Working pattern

Part time: The working hours for this position are 24.5 hours per week, the working pattern is 8.45am – 2.30pm Monday-Thursday and 8.45am - 2.30pm on a Friday. (15-minute morning break and 1-hour lunch break).

Contract type

Fixed term - 1 Academic Year

Actual salary

£12982

What skills and experience we're looking for

The successful candidate will be expected to:

  • Provide one-on-one or small group support to children with additional needs.
  • Assist with intimate care tasks, including toileting, dressing, and personal hygiene, ensuring the dignity and privacy of the student at all times.
  • Support the implementation of an Education and Health Care plan

The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate the following:

Applicants should have experience working with children in a school environment. It is essential that you hold GCSEs (grades A-C) in both Maths and English, or hold equivalent qualifications in this area.

  • Enthusiasm to work with children with a variety of different personalities and skill levels.
  • Experience working with children, preferably in an educational setting.
  • Understanding of and commitment to safeguarding and child protection.
  • Ability to provide intimate care in a respectful and sensitive manner.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Patience, empathy, and a positive attitude.
  • Able to work under your own initiative.
  • Smartly presented and with excellent time management skills.

What the school offers its staff


Professional CPD

Staff Wellbeing Service

Further details about the role

Successful applicants will join our friendly, caring and highly competent team of learning support staff.

We welcome and encourage visits to Silver End Academy are encouraged, please contact the school office on 01376 583353 to arrange an appointment.

Inspires MAT are committed to:

  • Safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety, and the spiritual, moral, social and cultural development, of children and young people;
  • Promoting equality of opportunity and community cohesion where the diversity of difference backgrounds and circumstances is appreciated and positively valued;
  • The fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance for those with different faiths and beliefs

and expects all staff, volunteers and other workers to share this commitment.

The appointment will be subject to an enhanced DBS check, medical clearance and satisfactory references.

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.

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About Silver End Academy

School type
Academy, ages 2 to 11
Education phase
View all Primaryjobs
School size
367 pupils enrolled
Age range
2 to 11
Phone number
01376518190

Arranging a visit to Silver End Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email HR@inspiresmat.co.uk.

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