Teaching Assistant (1:2:1 specific medical need)

Woodgate Primary Academy, Crawley, West Sussex, RH11 9GT

9 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  Summer 2025

• Closing date

  28 April 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  4 April 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Full time: 32.5 hours per week
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: Salary: £24,027-£24,404 fte (actual starting salary £17,695.56 - £17,973.22)

What skills and experience we're looking for

Woodgate Primary Academy is looking for a Teaching Assistant to join our growing team and to give the very best support to our community every day. This is a fantastic opportunity to work in an engaging and rewarding environment, supporting the learning of young pupils, to enable them to fully access life at school. This role is especially exciting as it combines a teaching assistant role with providing care for a specific medical need to one pupil.

We are looking for individuals with some of the following skills, knowledge and experience:

• Have a passion and motivation for improving the lives of all children;

• Have experience of working with individual and groups of children;

• Be able to support pupils to access the curriculum within a mainstream class;

• Be able to deliver intervention programmes to groups of children;

• Have an optimistic attitude and be flexible to the demands of the job;

• Demonstrate versatility, tact, commitment and the ability to use initiative;

• Be patient and able to stay calm and listen and value children’s views;

• Be able to work as part of a team and be expected to contribute to its development;

• Have the ability to strictly maintain confidentiality;

• Be suitably qualified for the post of Teaching Assistant i.e. to have good basic literacy and numeracy skills (to GCSE level or above) and be able to communicate effectively both orally and in writing;

• Have experience of some behaviour management techniques;

What the school offers its staff

In return we can offer you:

• Wonderful children who thrive in a high quality learning culture;

• Skilled and friendly colleagues who strive to do the best for the children in their care;

• A strong ethos of care, respect and concern for each other.

Further details about the role

If you enjoy a challenge and are interested in applying for this rewarding post, please download further information and an application form from our website www.woodgateprimary.school.

Visits to the school are welcomed. If you would like to arrange a tour or to discuss the role further please contact the school office: 01444 461329 or office@woodgateprimary.school.

Please email your completed application form and covering letter to office@woodgateprimary.school. Please note that we are unable to accept CVs.

We reserve the right to interview and appoint early for the right candidate.

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

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to office@woodgateprimary.school

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

_TA Teaching Assistant 1_2_1 03_25 JD & PS.docx.pdf - 848 KB (opens in new tab)

Copy of Woodgate- Primary Academy - TA Person specification.pdf - 81.4 KB (opens in new tab)

About Woodgate Primary Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 2 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 134 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Woodgate Primary Academy website
• Email address: office@woodgateprimary.school
• Phone number: 01444 461329
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/woodgate-primary-academy

Arranging a visit to Woodgate Primary Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email office@woodgateprimary.school.

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