Targeted Mainstream Provision (TMP) Teaching Assistant - Temporary Post
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Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
4 October 2024 at 9am
Date listed
19 September 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern
- Full time: Working hours are Monday-Thursday: 8.15-4.15 and Friday: 8.15-3.45 plus, a 30-minute unpaid lunchbreak each day
Contract type
- Fixed term - Temporary, Full Time - To be agreed at interview
Pay scale
- Salary Scale Point 7 (range 7-11)
What skills and experience we're looking for
This is an exciting opportunity for a knowledgeable and passionate teaching assistant who has experience of working with young people with additional needs and who is looking for a new, rewarding challenge. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work alongside the academy staff to develop this exciting new TMP, established in collaboration with the local authority and in response to the growing demand for resourced provision for Communication and Interaction within the Craven area.
We are looking to appoint a teaching assistant who has experience of working with students with Communication and Interaction difficulties, particularly within the area of Autism, to work in this new provision in our academy. This is an exciting time as the academy continues to strengthen and develop its positive reputation for supporting young people with SEND in the local community. As such, this is in excellent opportunity to be a key member of the team in developing and implementing the provision and relevant strategies to support some of our most vulnerable students.
The successful candidate will work as directed to meet the educational needs of students and support them in all areas of school life, where necessary. They will encourage students to become independent learners and at all times respect confidentiality of information relating to the school and its students.
The Skipton Academy is a comprehensive school with the community at the heart of its vision. Our school ethos of ‘Belong Challenge Inspire’ encapsulates our inclusive approach to working with the young people in our care and the opening of our new TMP is testimony to our ongoing drive to offer young people in our local community the opportunity to thrive and achieve success in our setting. We recognise the importance of recognising each student as an individual and giving them every opportunity to achieve positive outcomes in their school life, both academically and beyond.
What the school offers its staff
In return for your commitment we can offer:
- the opportunity to make a real differencestudents with ‘highly positive attitudes to learning’
- personalised CPD with a strong commitment to professional growth and developing individual career paths
- a very calm and orderly school with high expectations and an ethos of trust and care
- a committed and established staff and a supportive leadership team, parents and Governors
- a location on the edge of the beautiful Yorkshire Dales
If you are inspired by this post and the opportunity to work in a setting where we continuously strive to ensure that our students feel they belong, they are challenged and they are inspired to achieve their best, then we would be delighted to hear from you.
Commitment to safeguarding
Moorlands Learning Trust is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to the protection and safeguarding of children and young people in our recruitment procedures and in all our work across and beyond school. The school adheres to statutory guidelines in respect to safe recruitment. All persons employed by the school, in any capacity, will undergo an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, and confirmation of employment is subject to a successful outcome. All teaching staff members recruited by the school have their eligibility to teach checked with the DfE.
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About The Skipton Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 590 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- The Skipton Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- v.okeefe@theskiptonacademy.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01756 792965
The Skipton Academy is a vibrant 11-16 comprehensive school which is rapidly growing and expanding in size; pupil numbers have increased recently to such a degree that we now need to expand our staffing across a range of subject areas.
We are committed to our ethos of “Belong Challenge Inspire” and this has been key to the improvements in every aspect of the school. Our dedicated staff are fully committed to this ethos and have bought into a common goal and support each other to make The Skipton Academy a vibrant and positive place to work.
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