TA 2 permanent contract. 30 hour per week
St Clement's CofE Primary, Worcester, Worcestershire, WR2 5NS8 days remaining to apply
Job start date
28 April 2025
Closing date
26 March 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
11 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years
Working pattern
- Full time: 30 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- TA2 (SCP 5-6) £20,100 - £20, 418
What skills and experience we're looking for
Key Purpose: • Planning and delivering challenging, engaging and enjoyable activities. • Forming relationships with the children, enabling them to be comfortable in their surroundings and providing an environment where they can play and explore. • Working as part of a team to deliver a high standard of care and education. • To ensure that the preschool is a safe environment for children, staff and others. • Good understanding of safeguarding issues. • Developing partnerships with parents/carers to increase involvement in their child’s development . • To be responsible for any tasks delegated by the school leadership team. Main Activities: • To provide a safe, caring, stimulating educational environment, both indoors and outdoors, at all times. • To deliver an appropriate play based Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) curriculum that enables children to make individual progress. • To help ensure our setting meets Ofsted requirements at all times. • To undertake designated officer roles as directed. • To work with other profe
What the school offers its staff
We believe that collaboration and staff wellbeing are at the heart of our success. Supported by our trust, we offer a range of benefits to enhance our work environment and support the professional and personal growth of our staff, including work-life balance. Education Mutual Staff can access a comprehensive range of healthcare services through Education Mutual, including mental health support, 24/7 GP Healthline, physiotherapy, stress management resources, and occupational health services. Find out more about Healthcare and Wellbeing Services here: www.educationmutual.co.uk/servic e/healthcare-and-wellbeing/ Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) The Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) is a defined benefit plan, meaning your pension is calculated based on your salary and length of service and adjusted for inflation. This ensures a secure and guaranteed income in retirement, unaffected by investment performance. Find out more about LGPS here: www.lgpsmember.org/ Other staff benefits include: • Competitive salary • Six INSET days per year • Protected CPL time • Continued professional development pathway for every role • No work communication outside working hours • Excellent holiday entitlement for support staff: Bank holidays plus 25 days paid holiday (pro rata) • 5 days extra paid holiday after 5 years’ service (pro rata) • Time for You’ day • Family-friendly policies including flexible working, occupational maternity and paternity pay • Reasonable release time for significant personal events • Length of service awards • Resources for retirement and financial planning • Cycle-to-work scheme • Free tea, coffee an
Flexible working opportunities
Further details about the role
Essential Desirable • Willingness to participate in development and training opportunities • Relevant Level 2 qualification e.g. Level 2 Certificate for the Children & Young People’s Workforce, NVQ Level 2 in Children’s Care, Learning and Development (CCLD) or equivalent qualifications • Training in the relevant strategies e.g. parenting and/or in particular learning areas, e.g. quality improvement, observation and record keeping, Communication, Language and Literacy, ICT, maths, etc. • Full working knowledge of relevant policies/codes of practice and awareness of relevant legislation • Understanding of principles of child development and learning processes and in particular barriers to learning • Health & Safety certificate • Paediatric First Aid qualification Skills and knowledge: Essential Desirable • Ability to plan effective learning and care programmes either under appropriate supervision and guidance or in collaboration • Ability to work independently using own initiative. • Ability to self-evaluate learning needs and actively seek learning opportunities • Ability to relate well to children and adults including other professionals/carers/parents • Ability to demonstrate and promote good practice in line with the ethos of the school both indoors and outdoors. • Ability to manage multiple tasks, whilst ensuring children, colleagues, parents and carers are respected and listened to • Fluent English speaker • Effectively communicate with adults and children • Good written, verbal and nonverbal communication • Training in the relevant strategies e.g. parenting and/or in particular learning areas, e.g. quality improvement, observation and record keeping, Communication, Language and Literacy, ICT, maths, etc. • Full working knowledge of relevant policies/codes of practice and awareness of relevant legislation • Understanding of principles of child development and learning processes and in particular barriers to learning • Health & Safety certificate • Paediatric First Aid qualification Person Specifications Personal Qualities Essential Desirable • Proactive and positive team player, able to work constructively as part of a team to understand pre-school roles and responsibilities and own position within these • Enthusiasm for learning and working with children • Caring, friendly, approachable, open, inclusive, welcoming, and personable • Able to maintain confidentiality at all times and nonverbal communication • Reflective approach and commitment to personal development • Able to provide consistently high levels of quality care and education opportunities to all children, in pressured and sometimes challenging environments
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
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to office-stc@riverscofe.co.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About St Clement's CofE Primary
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 264 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- St Clement's CofE Primary website
- Email address
- office-stc@riverscofe.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01905423861
1 form entry primary school with a pre school
Arranging a visit to St Clement's CofE Primary
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email office-stc@riverscofe.co.uk.
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