Specialist Resource Provision Teaching Assistant
Avanti Brook Primary School, Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, CM23 2UW5 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
15 September 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
6 September 2024
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: Please see JD for further information.
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Grade 2, £22,665 per annum (Approximately £18,126 pro rata per annum (0.79972 FTE)
What skills and experience we're looking for
About us and the role
Join our school as a SRP TA and make a real difference in the lives of our students. If you're enthusiastic about education and eager to support both students and staff, we want to hear from you!
Please note that we may close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, we'd encourage you to submit your application as early as possible.
School visits are welcomed and encouraged. Please contact the school to arrange a suitable time.
What will you do?
- Support pupils by delivering learning programs, encouraging engagement, and assisting with personal needs
- Assist the Lead teacher by preparing and maintaining classroom resources, providing clerical support
- Supervise pupils during out-of-lesson times, accompany them on school trips, and participate in relevant meetings and training opportunities.
- Support the development of basic Literacy, Numeracy, and ICT skills, and undertake additional duties as required by the principal.
What are we looking for?
- Experience of working with EYFS/KS1 students within a learning environment.
- Experience of working with students with Autism and/or Speech, Language and Communication Issues.
- An understanding of classroom roles and responsibilities
- Promote and safeguard the welfare of children and young people
Please view the full Job Description for more information on the responsibilities and essential criteria required for this role.
What the school offers its staff
Why should you apply
Avanti exists to help each person become a well-rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth, and so make the world a better place.
You will be working in a fantastic environment, with:
- Great opportunities for professional development through the Avanti Institute and our family of schools
- Pension scheme subject to eligibility criteria
- O2 discounts, Specsavers corporate eye test vouchers
- Flexible working opportunities
- Eligible for NUS Card and CSSC membership
- Access to multiple well-being programmes (Weekend Retreats, Yoga Classes and Apps)
- Cycle-to-work and Electric Vehicle Lease Schemes
Further details about the role
Pre-employment checks
Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.
Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.
Diversity and Inclusion
We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics.
Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.
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.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Avanti Brook Primary School
- School type
- Free School, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- View all Primaryjobs
- School size
- 32 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Avanti Brook Primary School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- careers@avanti.org.uk
Arranging a visit to Avanti Brook Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email careers@avanti.org.uk.
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