SEND Support Teaching Assistant
The Meadows Primary Academy, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST3 3AZThis job expired on 4 December 2023 – see similar jobs
Start date details
Jan 2024
Closing date
4 December 2023 at 9am
Date listed
17 November 2023
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time, part time: Full time (Term Time only plus 5 INSET days) Working Hours: 36.25 hours p.w (Mon –Wed 8.15am – 4pm, Thurs 8.15am – 4.30pm, Fri 8.15am – 3.30pm). Part time (Term Time only plus 5 INSET days) Working Hours: 36.25 hours p.w (Mon –Wed 8.15am – 4pm, Thurs 8.15am – 4.30pm, Fri 8.15am – 3.30pm)
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Grade 5, SCP 16-20 £23,893 - £25,119
Actual salary
- Actual Salary: £20,402.84 - £21,449.83
What skills and experience we're looking for
The Meadows Primary Academy is an ambitious and inclusive community school with passion for delivering high quality education.
Our staff are innovative, hardworking and motivated. We are seeking to appoint professional and dedicated teaching assistant who will sit within our pastoral team, supporting some of our children with additional learning needs. We are a school with high SEN need and a lot of children who have SEMH issues that need that extra emotional and learning support to thrive within the school day. We are looking for someone who can be flexible and work to support a number of different children, with different needs, where two working days will never look the same!
We welcome applications from individuals, who care about people and are able to form strong relationships. They will motivate and inspire others to strive for the best.
We are looking for someone who is:
- An experienced teaching assistant who has a wide range of experience across all age groups
- Calm with a caring nature that can help ensure pupils remain calm in class
- knowledgeable about a range of SEN issues and has the experience and motivation to support those learners.
- Committed to working with staff and students to help them achieve their potential
- Able to create a culture and ethos where all students can achieve success and become engaged in their own learning
- Creative and able to embrace the challenges of The Meadows
- An excellent communicator and demonstrates openness and honesty
- An excellent team player who enjoys working collaboratively
- Able to inspire and motivate children and staff
- Highly skilled in managing personal interactions
- Resilient under pressure
What the school offers its staff
In return for dedication, we can offer:
- Child focused team and environment,
- Incredible community of children, parents and carers who deserve only the best,
- Balanced approach to wellbeing and workload,
- Commitment to quality CPD, development and opportunities due to further school growth.
Shaw Education Trust are a thriving mix of diverse and growing schools including Primary, Secondary and Special Schools all working together to improve the lives of young people in our communities. We are sponsored by Shaw Trust a charity organisation that focuses on transforming lives. We’re a growing group of dynamically awesome academies providing education to children of all ages and abilities. Staff across our team of schools are dedicated to ensuring that every child has the opportunity to be successful, whatever their starting point in life.
Shaw Education Trust offer the following 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)
- Access to health and wellbeing support via Occupational Health
- 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.
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 The Meadows Primary Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 375 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- The Meadows Primary Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- natalie.turner@shaw-education.org.uk
The Meadows Primary Academy (formerly Blurton Primary School), situated in Blurton, Stoke-on-Trent, joined the Shaw Education Trust family on 1st January 2020.
At The Meadows, every child is encouraged to believe in themselves and to have high aspirations. Through promoting a positive attitude combined with a strong work ethic; our children know that they can do well in life if they work hard and aim high. This is woven into everything that we do through our core values of respect, positivity and collective responsibility.
We have a dynamic team of exceptional teachers and support staff who act as exemplary role models, educating and nurturing each child, enabling them to achieve high standards of academic attainment whilst also enabling them to become capable, caring and confident human beings. Also, over the past five years, we have achieved our aim of becoming an Attachment Aware School. Through this, we are committed to working to establish attachment-like relationships with our children, particularly with challenging and vulnerable children, in order to improve their chances of learning and achieving.
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