Targeted Teaching Assistant (Maternity Cover - 1 Year)

Parkside Community Primary School, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, WD6 4EP

19 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  3 June 2025

• Closing date

  13 May 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  23 April 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £24,790.00 Annually (FTE) Pro Rata Salary based on H3 FTE - £24,790

Targeted Teaching Assistant (Maternity Cover - 1 Year) job summary

Term Time Only - 38 Weeks - 32.5 hours working week.

Working under guidance from teaching and senior staff, provide support to enable access to learning for pupils and help to overcome presenting barriers.

Work may be carried out in the classroom or outside the main teaching areas.

The jobholder is one of a team of teachers and assistants who support the learning of pupils. Flexibility by all staff is important in order to meet the varied needs of pupils.

• Develop a secure knowledge of the learning support needs of individual pupils.

• Provide the necessary adaptation and support to ensure the pupils can access learning and mitigate for the identified barriers to learning.

• Assist with the implementation of support plans, monitoring the effectiveness and providing records of progress. Plan and evaluate specialist learning activities with the teacher, maintaining records as required.

• Establish and maintain positive and productive working relationships with pupils, and interact with them according to their individual needs.

• Promote the inclusion and acceptance of all pupils.

• Encourage pupils to interact with others and engage in activities led by the teacher.

• Set challenging and demanding expectations and promote self-esteem and independence.

• Provide feedback to pupils in relation to progress and achievement under guidance of the teacher.

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

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Parkside Community Primary School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 247 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Parkside Community Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/parkside-community-primary-school-borehamwood

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