Teaching Assistant
Henley Bank High School, Gloucester, GL3 4QF9 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
30 January 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
20 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time: 36.00 hours per week, Monday to Thursday 8.15am – 16.00pm and Friday 8.15am – 15.45pm (with a 30-minute unpaid lunch break), Full time, Term Time only plus Inset days
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £25,183.00 - £27,711.00 FTE - (£21,717.28 - £23,897.37 per annum actual salary)
Pay scale
- NJC Grade F, Scale Points 6-12
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for a Teaching Assistant. This is an exciting opportunity to join GLT / Henley Bank High School and become an integral member of the Teaching Assistant team.
At Henley Bank High School, our aspiration is for all our staff and students to leave our school with practical wisdom gained through the teaching of intellectual, moral, civic and performance virtues.
We are a successful secondary school based in Brockworth, extremely close to junction 11a of the M5. The school has consistently been achieving excellent academic results over the past few years with the GCSE results of 2023 being in the top 1% of results in the country, as well as the highest results for any non-selective school in Gloucestershire. We opened our Sixth Form in September 2024 and are really excited to see what the next stage in the school’s journey will be. A crucial element of the school’s vision is ensuing that we are preparing our young people for the world of tomorrow. This role plays an essential part in achieving this.
Greenshaw Learning Trust is a highly successful multi academy trust that provides excellent quality, comprehensive, non-selective and inclusive education through primary schools and secondary schools. Our schools are based in London, Surrey, Berkshire, Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire, Bristol and Plymouth. We also have three shared service hubs with remote / hybrid working opportunities where appropriate. We are building a family of like-minded schools, that collaborate to provide mutual support, share their good practice and learn from each other, whilst retaining and developing their own distinctive character. We thrive from collaboration at every level. We encourage a culture of sharing ideas and learning from one another. As a Trust of schools, we are ‘Always Learning’.
To get a feel of life at Greenshaw Learning Trust, please download our ‘Why you should work for GLT’ recruitment brochure on our job’s portal.
Main responsibilities:
- To provide in-class support for identified individual students or small groups of students (e.g. 4-5 students), including specialist subject support as appropriate
- Under the direction of the class teacher, to assist in the management of the whole class through the overt modelling of effective behaviour management techniques
- Under the direction of a class teacher, SENCO, to develop and lead small group work for identified students supporting their ability to manage the symptoms of their SEMH, including anxiety as well as to contribute to the appropriate paperwork for these groups
- To assist in the production of teaching and learning materials for students, including differentiating the materials
- To provide after school support for identified students as required
- To provide regular feedback to the class teacher and to the SENDCo or the relevant line manager
- To provide support for students with social, emotional and mental health difficulties
- To use appropriate systems for recording the progress of students with learning difficulties
- To provide data and information to inform Annual and Transition Review paperwork, PSPs (Pastoral Support Programmes), Student Profile documentation and Academic Reporting
You will need:
- At least 5 GCSE’s or equivalent, which must include at least a Grade C/4 in Maths and English
- Basic understanding of child development and learning.
- The ability to work constructively as part of a team, follow line management structures and understand classroom roles and your own position within those responsibilities.
- The ability to take the initiative to support students presenting with a range of SEND
- The ability to work in a flexible way and think ‘outside the box’ in order to co-produce learning plans that support a young person’s resilience
- To show commitment to the SEND team to ensure that it continues to develop strength and expertise across the broad areas of SEND
- Basic understanding of child development and learning.
- The ability to work constructively as part of a team, follow line management structures and understand classroom roles and your own position within those responsibilities.
- The ability to take the initiative to support students presenting with a range of SEND
- The ability to work in a flexible way and think ‘outside the box’ in order to co-produce learning plans that support a young person’s resilience
- To show commitment to the SEND team to ensure that it continues to develop strength and expertise across the broad areas of SEND
- To be able to form empathetic relationships with young people and be able to communicate their needs effectively to other professionals
- Commitment to high standards and expectations
- Knowledge of strategies to recognise and reward efforts and achievements along with the ability to encourage students to become resilient, self-reliant and independent learners
- Knowledge of the broad areas of SEND
- Experience of working with children who present with anxiety and other social, emotional and mental health difficulties
- Excellent communication with children and parent/carers.
- Good behaviour management.
- Able to adapt activities to suit the child
- Possess strong interpersonal skills
- Be dependable, able to follow instruction and respond to management directions
- Have a willingness to extend skills through appropriate training
- Have good working ICT Knowledge
What the school offers its staff
What’s in it for you:
- Professional development and career progression
- Generous pension scheme
- An Employee Assistance Programme
- Gym Discounts
- Free eye tests
- Cycle to work scheme
- Green car scheme
- Access to Blue Light Card Scheme
- Access to Teacher Art Pass Scheme (teachers only)
- Being part of a great team and expanding organisation
Commitment to safeguarding
Greenshaw Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people therefore this appointment will be subject to vetting, including an enhanced DBS disclosure.
Applying for the job
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About Henley Bank High School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 825 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Henley Bank High School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- jhowells@henleybankhighschool.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01452 863372
Henley Bank High School is a 11 – 16 mixed comprehensive secondary school and is situated in Brockworth, Gloucester. We currently have 750 students on roll, with staff providing teaching, pastoral care and other support across the school. We had our first Ofsted inspection in June 2022 and were extremely proud of the outcome which was good in all categories. We are also extremely proud of the results our Year 11 students have achieved and the dedication that they and our staff have put in to achieve this is outstanding.
At Henley Bank High School, our aspiration is for all our staff and students to leave our school with practical wisdom gained through the teaching of intellectual, moral, civic and performance virtues. We build character implicitly, through our world class curriculum, teaching and learning in the classroom and explicitly through our Legacy Programme and Pastoral Systems. We aim to guide our students in becoming well rounded citizens of the future who can lead with honesty, integrity and resilience. The importance we place on this has been recognised through the school being awarded the Character Kitemark accreditation. Our Legacy programme and values of Ambition, Creativity, Confidence, Determination and Respect are the foundations of our Character Education programme.
All students have an entitlement to a broad, balanced and relevant curriculum. We believe that all students with additional needs should be taught wherever possible, with their peers in mainstream classes by subject specialists who use a range of teaching methods and strategies to develop students' knowledge, skills and understanding. Henley Bank High School was the winner of the NASEN Award for Secondary Provision which demonstrates the value that we place on our support provided within the classroom across all subjects within the school.
As a school, we really celebrate being a team and a ‘family’. This is crucial to us to ensure collaboration and support as well as ensuring that staff, students, parents/carers and the wider community feel invested in improving the school and the chances of success for our students. A huge amount of work has gone into developing this school over the last few years and we are so excited to welcome new members of staff to help continue this development, as well as bring their own ideas and enthusiasm.
We are ambitious about diversity and inclusion and very much look forward to receiving applications from candidates whose personal qualities and values reflect those in the person specification and whose experiences also place them in a strong position to deliver the challenges set out in the job description. We encourage applications from candidates regardless of age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, marital status, religion, belief, or race.
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