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SEND Teaching Assistant

Brimington Junior School, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, S43 1HF

This job expired on 4 March 2024 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  4 March 2024 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  31 January 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: £13,199.00 - £14,211.00 Annually (Actual) Salary is actual and the role is term time only.

SEND Teaching Assistant job summary

The role of SEN TA is for 22 hours and 45 minutes per week. This will be to support children with special educational needs in Year 3, ensuring their safety and access to learning activities. To work in all areas of the curriculum, where needed, to help pupils improve their level of understanding and achievement (social, behavioural, academic etc).
To organise and run specific groups and interventions designed to support learning development including reading groups.

Whilst we are flexible to some degree, the successful candidate will be required to work every day from 8.45am to 2pm.

Context

The descriptions below of our ‘why’, ‘how’ and ‘what’ define the work we are developing as a Trust. They are an aspiration, and we are always striving to achieve them.
We ensure our ‘why’, ‘how’ and ‘what’ hold us to account for the work we do.
Why do we exist?
Our purpose is to ensure every LEARNER has choices about their future
Our first job is to support and extend learning for pupils to provide them with the skills and knowledge to make those choices.
Our second job is to make sure no child is ignored, no family is unsupported and no life is wasted, by providing intervention at the earliest opportunity.
Our responsibility to education is to provide an environment where practitioners can collaborate, learn from each other, take risks and reflect.

How will we act?

We will use our purpose as a driver for our culture, ensuring we are;

Connected (sharing information openly, broadly and deliberately)

Helpful (embracing servant leadership and use initiative to solve the problem)

Organised (employing efficient strategies and trust colleagues to deliver)

Informed (asking coaching questions to understand what is happening)

Candid (disagreeing openly and compassionately)

Effective (only retaining our best elements and looking for continuous improvement)

Simple (avoiding complexity and increasing clarity)


What is our strategy?

We will use our culture to ensure the work of the Trust;

Focuses on creating capacity (time and resources) for schools

Ensures support is agile, providing intervention at the earliest opportunity

Supports schools to employ and invest in the best educators for children

Seeks continuous improvement and disruptive innovation

This is a fantastic opportunity for the right person.

We would warmly encourage you to contact the school on: (01246) 232505 to speak with Mr Nick Newberry - Head Teacher, about the role.

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 Brimington Junior School

• School type: Academy, ages 7 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 306 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 7 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Brimington Junior School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/brimington-junior-school-chesterfield

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