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Teaching Assistant

Queen Katharine Academy, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE4 6HX

This job expired on 26 September 2024 – see similar jobs

Closing date
26 September 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
12 September 2024

Job details

Job role: Teaching assistant
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Working pattern: Full time
Contract type: Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary: Pathway 3    £18,811.94 - £20,125.53  (FTE £25,119 – £26,873)

Teaching Assistant job summary

Teaching Assistant

Contract: Permanent

Hours: 32.5 hours, 39 weeks per annum (term time plus one week)

Working pattern: Monday – Friday 8.30am – 3.30pm

Salary: Pathway 3    £18,811.94 - £20,125.53  (FTE £25,119 – £26,873)

Site: Queen Katharine Academy

Closing date:  26th September 2024

Start date:  ASAP

Please note the trust may decide to withdraw the advert before the closing date or interview suitable candidates prior to the advert closing.  

Are you passionate about education and eager to make a difference in young learners’ lives? 

Are you able to provide support for pupils, especially those with special needs?

Are you committed to ensuring our pupils' safety and access to learning activities?  

If so, join our team of teaching assistants who want to make a difference to our students!

Your role:

As a Teaching Assistant, you will work with students in the classroom and with small groups, supporting them to access learning activities to meet their needs.  There may also be occasions where you are required to support students in providing personal and intimate care as some of our students need assistance with everyday activities. You will establish mutually respectful and supportive relationships with our students. The role will be both challenging and rewarding and although experience of working with secondary school-aged students would be an advantage, it is not essential: we would consider personality and commitment of the utmost importance. Full training will be given.

About us:

We cater for students with a range of Special Educational Needs and Disabilities, including those with Education Health and Care Plans.  We have recently moved to a new and exciting bespoke area within the setting, offering superb facilities to meet our students’ needs. The department is well resourced and includes fantastic practitioners. We are looking to appoint a colleague who shares our vision and determination to help every student achieve their potential.

Collaboration, educational research and professional development are at the core of how the schools within Thomas Deacon Education Trust work together. With a clear focus on colleagues at all levels, the Trust is well placed to provide great opportunities.  At Queen Katharine Academy, you will be given effective support to develop as an outstanding Teaching Assistant. 

Why work for us?:

We are part of the Thomas Deacon Education Trust and we can offer you:

Progression opportunities across the Trust

Continuous development, e.g. training, coaching

Free flu vaccinations

TDA Staff Character Awards

Cycle to work scheme

£250 Recommend a friend scheme

Free & confidential Employee Assistance Programme

Trained Mental health first aiders

Collaborative working across schools in the Trust

If you have the skills we are looking for, we can’t wait to meet you!

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Thomas Deacon Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The Academy will require the successful candidate to provide satisfactory references and undertake an Enhanced Check with the Disclosure and Barring Service.

If you have any questions regarding this post, please contact the HR Team on e-mail at  hrteam@tdet.education 

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.

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