SEND Teaching Assistant

King's Oak Academy, King's Lynn, Norfolk, PE30 4QJ

Deadline is tomorrow

• Start date details

  September 2024

• Closing date

  1 July 2024 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  17 June 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: £12.18 - £12.38 Annually (Actual)

SEND Teaching Assistant job summary

Teaching Assistant -SEND – Kings Oak Academy

30 hours per week. This could be a single role, or a job share opportunity for the right candidates.

Term time plus 1 week

Salary – MRS Scale D Point 5-6 (£12.18 - £12.38/hr)

This is currently a fixed term contract until 31st July 2025 in the first instance.

Unity Education Trust are recruiting for a Teaching Assistant to join our education team at Kings Oak Academy for September 2024.

We are looking for versatile, resilient and committed Teaching Assistant with experience and skills supporting children with Special Educational Needs. The successful candidate will work alongside the class teacher and other teaching assistants, assisting the children in their work and play, supporting with pupil behaviour and establishing good relationships with pupils, acting as a role model and responding to individual needs.

Please note that the role does involve some regular physical activity e.g. supporting intimate care, interacting with students through play on the floor and responding promptly to escalated situations. This does not remove our obligation to make adjustments where appropriate.

Unity Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All applicants must be willing to undergo safeguarding screening appropriate to the post, including checks with Disclosure & Barring Service and at least 2 references which cover the last 3 years; for all our services we will request references from where you have worked with either Children or Vulnerable Adults. Please be advised that references may be requested prior to interview for roles within our Schools

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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Visas cannot be sponsored.

About King's Oak Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 7
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 137 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 7
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: King's Oak Academy website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/king-s-oak-academy (opens in new tab)

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