Teaching Assistant 1:1
Halton Lodge Primary School, Runcorn, Cheshire, WA7 5LUThis job expired on 12 July 2024 – see similar jobs
Job start date
2 September 2024
Closing date
12 July 2024 at 9am
Date listed
2 July 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5 hours a week Our school starts at 08:40 and ends at 15:10. Staff Meetings currently take place on a Wednesday (from 15:20 to 16:20). The contract of employment also includes INSET Days (i.e. term time plus 5 days).
Contract type
- Fixed term - For as long as the child remains at our school, the child is in receipt of enhanced funding and/or the child requires additional 1:1 support
Full-time equivalent salary
- Actual Salary: £16,876 to £17,441 (FTE: £22,366 to £23,114)
Pay scale
- Grade 3 (SCP 2 - 4)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Prior to the start of the new academic year, the Governors and Headteacher at Halton Lodge Primary School wish to appoint THREE skilled and committed 1:1 Learning Support Assistants (Teaching Assistants) to join our team.
We are looking for friendly, caring and compassionate people who have the ability and skills to understand and support children with one of the following:
- a child in KS1 whose primary need is Communication and Interaction;
- two children in the same class, in LKS2, whose primary needs are Communication and Interaction;
- a child in UKS2 whose primary need is Social, Emotional & Mental Health
The successful
candidate should have:
- a NVQ Level 2 or equivalent qualification
- experience of working with children with Special Educational Needs
- high expectations for all learners, especially those with additional needs
- the ability to work closely, and effectively, as a member of a team
- the ability to take responsibility for supporting individual pupils (and small groups of children) to develop their learning and understanding in all areas of the National Curriculum
- high personal standards for their performance (including the ability to be welcoming and approachable to parents and pupils, and to behave in an enthusiastic yet responsible manner).
If you feel that you have the skills, energy and enthusiasm to successfully support any of these pupils, we would be delighted to hear from you.
What the school offers its staff
At Halton Lodge Primary School, we can offer you:
- A friendly, hardworking team of staff,
- A welcoming and vibrant school,
- Happy children who enjoy learning.
Further details about the role
Please complete an application form and provide a supporting statement outlining your interest, expressing how you feel you could contribute to our school (on no more than 1 side of A4). If there is one, or more, of the roles that particularly interests you, please state this within your application, so we can see clearly where you feel your skills would be most suited.
Please email your application for the attention of our Headteacher, Mr Anthony Hilldrup, on hr@haltonlodgeps.org.uk
Prospective candidates are invited to visit the school for a show around, to meet the headteacher, be taken on a short tour of the school and learn more about the children we are seeking to support on either of the following dates:
(i) 09:30 on Friday 5th July 2024 (ii) 16:30 on Tuesday 9th July 2024
Please contact the school via email (hr@haltonlodgeps.org.uk) to book on to one of these show arounds.
Closing date: Friday 12th July 2024 at 09:30
Interviews: To take place w/c Monday 15th July 2024
Our school and Weaver Trust place the highest priority on keeping our children safe. Applicants will be subject to a stringent vetting, including an Enhanced DBS check and induction process.
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.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Halton Lodge Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 199 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- head@haltonlodgeps.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01928 564053
Halton Lodge Primary School is a single form entry primary school - situated in Runcorn (which is part of Halton local authority).
Arranging a visit to Halton Lodge Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email head@haltonlodgeps.org.uk.
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