SEND Teaching Assistant
St Thomas More Catholic Primary School, Kettering, Northamptonshire, NN15 7JZThis job expired on 8 July 2022 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 September 2022
Closing date
8 July 2022 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
22 June 2022
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 2
Working pattern
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- Part Time (17.5 hours per week / 8.40am – 12.15pm / Monday – Friday)
Contract type
- Fixed term - reviewed annually
Full-time equivalent salary
- Grade D / Scale Point 3 - 4 (depending on experience) / FTE £18,887 - £19,264
SEND Teaching Assistant job summary
The school is looking to appoint a child centered, creative, inspiring and passionate SEND Teaching Assistant to join our fantastic team.
The role will include supporting the teaching and learning in Key Stage 2 (Year 4), specifically with children with identified special educational needs and barriers. This input may be on a 1:1 basis or in small groups and, depending on the nature of the work, may be inside or outside the classroom. The work will be under the guidance from the Class Teacher and we also have an Inclusion Support Officer and Inclusion Lead who can support and guide. The successful candidate will work within, and contribute towards, our strong Catholic ethos and strive to enable every child to reach their own unique, God given potential.
The successful candidate will need to demonstrate:
• A commitment to the Catholic ethos of the school
• High expectations and the belief that all children can succeed and make good progress
• A passion for children’s learning and development
• Excellent communication skills
• The ability to work as part of a team
• A sense of humour and empathy with children of this age, a caring personality and confidential nature
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 St Thomas More Catholic Primary School
- School type
- Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- View all Primaryjobs
- School size
- 216 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- fdonald@stm.ket.olicatschools.org
- Phone number
- 01536 512 112
Our Lady Immaculate Catholic Academies Trust is a large Catholic Multi Academy Trust situated in the northern half of the Catholic Diocese of Northampton. It was formed by the merger of three former Catholic Trusts in February 2020. The Trust currently leads and manages ten Catholic primary schools located across the geographical area of Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire and, two Catholic secondary schools.
St Thomas More Catholic Primary School is a ‘Good’ school (Ofsted, March 2018) that provides our pupils with an engaging, bespoke and broad Curriculum, where all subjects are valued. We were thrilled to be in the top 2% of Primary schools in the country for our end of KS2 outcomes in 2018 – 2019 (the last formal KS2 SATS) and are consistently one of the highest performing schools in Kettering.
Our Curriculum is designed around our four Core Aims: Learn, Love Pray and Play. We aim to enable our children to become:
● successful learners who enjoy learning, make progress and achieve
● Loving individuals who are able to live safe, healthy and fulfilling lives
● Team players who make a positive contribution to society
● Prayerful individuals who are able to recognise God’s love and support to drive them forward.
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