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Teaching and Learning Assistant

Co-op Academy Clarice Cliff, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST4 3DP

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• Start date details

  TBC

• Closing date

  8 November 2024 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  1 November 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: 16171 - 16878

Teaching and Learning Assistant job summary

We are seeking an enthusiastic and dedicated Teaching and Learning Assistant to join our committed and friendly team at Co-op Academy Clarice Cliff.

We welcome applications from individuals who care about people and can form strong relationships. They will be relentless in their support, encouragement and drive to ensure that our polite, well-behaved and enthusiastic pupils achieve their potential. 

This role will initially entail delivering a range of high quality phonics interventions across the school in order to support our mission of ensuring “every child a reader”. 

A comprehensive package of Continuing Professional Development is in place to ensure that we get the right candidate for the post.

The role is for five days, working 5.5 hours per day. 

You must be able to:

 ● Support an engaging and inclusive learning environment for our pupils and their families 

● Work effectively with colleagues and multi-agency teams 

● Be highly motivated, enthusiastic and skilled in supporting teaching and learning 

● Be committed to creating opportunities to enable young people to thrive 

● Communicate effectively and possess the ability to work on your own initiative as well as under the direction of colleagues

Why us?

Co-op Academy Cliff is a primary academy located in Stoke-on-Trent, part of Co-op Academies Trust, committed to providing a nurturing and inclusive learning environment. The school places a strong emphasis on cooperation, respect, and community values, ensuring that every child receives a high-quality education tailored to their individual needs. With a focus on both academic excellence and personal development, the academy strives to help students achieve their full potential.

All our values are based upon the values of the Co-op Group, which will inform our behaviours.

Self-help: We do not expect to be spoon fed – we will try to do things for ourselves in the right way and at the right time.

Self-responsibility: Everyone should act in a responsible way around the academy site and in the local community. We take responsibility for our own learning; we want to become independent learners.

Equality: We are proud to be part of a very multicultural academy, with students from all over the world; it is important that we treat each other with respect and accept that others may be different from ourselves. We should all of us have equal chances to succeed.

Equity: We want to look for the best in each other. Rewarding others fairly to encourage all types of achievement.

Democracy: We will contribute our ideas to make the academy a success.

Solidarity: We can achieve more by working together, rather than as individuals.

Our Values

Being part of the Co-operative Group, we are both guided and driven by the Co-op values which are embedded in everything that we do within our Academy - We strive to demonstrate the following ethical values in everything we do - they are our ‘Ways of Being’:

Succeed together

Do what matters most

Be yourself, always

Show you care

So, if you believe in our values, we would love to hear from you! 

We offer a wide range of benefits and rewards to recognise the part you play in our success:

Benefits include:

Our employee benefits package includes:

• You’ll get being a Co-op member, you’ll get a Co-op colleague discount card. This gives you a 10% discount in our Co-op Food stores. 
• Co-operative flexible benefits (discounted line rental and broadband package, family care advice and cycle to work scheme)
• Discounted gym membership and leisure activities which includes discounts on Merlin Entertainments (Sea Life, Legoland etc), Virgin Experience Days, SuperBreak and many more!
• Co-operative Credit Union: save directly from your salary and receive a competitive dividend. Borrowers can benefit from very competitive interest rates & terms (in comparison with other high street lenders)
• Co-op Funeralcare benefit
• Season ticket and rental deposit loans

And More! 

For more information about the Co-op Academies Trust, please visit: www.coopacademies.co.uk

The Trust is also committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage or civil partnerships.

Commitment to safeguarding

Co-op Academies Trust as an aware employer is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults as its number one priority. This commitment to robust recruitment, selection and induction procedures extends to organisations and services linked to the Trust on its behalf. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check. We value variety and individual differences, and aim to create a culture, environment and practices at all levels which encompass acceptance, respect and inclusion. All our colleagues are expected to demonstrate a commitment to co-operative values and principles.

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About Co-op Academy Clarice Cliff

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 418 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Co-op Academy Clarice Cliff website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/co-op-academy-clarice-cliff (opens in new tab)

Co-op Academy Clarice Cliff strives to give the best possible start to education for all of its pupils. We are a large two form entry primary school with an on-site 60 place nursery.

Our children deserve the highest quality education and to develop an understanding of the world that gives them the greatest chance to lead happy and successful lives.

Being part of the Co-operative Group, we are both guided and driven by the Co-op values which are centred around a different, fairer and better way of doing things. These values are embedded in everything that we do within the Academy - they are our ‘Ways of Bbeing’;

Do what matters most | Be yourself, always | Show you care | Succeed together

Do what matters most

What matters most is ensuring that our students achieve the best possible outcomes. We make a positive difference to our children through showing exemplary professional behaviours.

Be yourself, always

We bring our best self to work, so that we each contribute a bit of our own unique Co-op difference, and respect others for doing the same. We understand that we are all unique and bring our own strengths to work.

Show you care

We care about our Co-op, our colleagues, our members, our students, their parents and communities, now and for the future. Our focus remains on doing our best for our children.

Succeed together

Co-operating is what makes us different; we’re better and stronger when we work together.

We recognise that what we achieve is achieved together.

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