Teaching Assistant
Pencalenick School, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 1TE38 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
3 September 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
19 July 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern
- Full time: Variable hours initially for 30 hrs per week, 39 working weeks per year (includes CPD days) plus holidays (45.4506 paid weeks)
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £23,600
What skills and experience we're looking for
Pencalenick School is a highly successful Academy Trust School that lies in the heart of Cornwall, providing high quality education and support for pupils age 11-16 with complex learning difficulties and disabilities. The school is a member of the Special Partnership Trust, an ambitious and inspiring collaboration of specialist provision in Cornwall, with a focus on excellence in learning for everyone.
We are seeking to appoint a self-motivated, caring and dedicated Teaching Assistant. As a key member of staff you will take a pro-active role in the support of the educational and physical needs of the pupils with a focus on an individual’s support.
The successful candidate will be required to work alongside class teachers and Teaching Assistants and to follow any recommendations/guidance from multi agency teams. Experience of supporting students with complex and multiple learning needs or disabilities is a must, along with the confidence to manage emotional or behavioural difficulty.
The successful candidate will have:
- A minimum of two years relevant experience working with children, preferably in an educational setting
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- A good understanding of safeguarding children
- High quality planning, annotation and recording skills
- An ability to work on their own initiative and be self-motivated.
A commitment to continuing professional development is necessary; we work closely together and roles may be interchangeable to meet children’s needs.
What the school offers its staff
n return, as well as your salary, the following benefits would form part of your total reward:
- 37 days paid holiday (including bank holidays) from start of employment with the Trust
- Local Government or Teachers Pensions Scheme
- Employees Assistance Programme to support staff wellbeing
- Discounts on new O2 phone contracts and access to ‘Extra Special’, the Trust’s employee benefits and perks hub, which included hundreds of retailer discounts and wellbeing portal
- Simply Health Plan – supporting our employees, and their families, with health care costs
- Extra Special Membership, offering discounts on supermarket and other shopping
- Discounted gym memberships with Better Leisure
- Bike 2 Work Scheme
- Microsoft Office 365 Licences, you are able to use your work account to use excel, word and office packages on your home computer
- Eye Test Reimbursements
- First Aid & Fire Warden Allowances
- Long Service Vouchers
Commitment to safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding children and the successful applicant will be required to undertake an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Applicants should also be aware that an online search will be undertaken for all shortlisted candidates.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to secretary@pencalenick.org
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Pencalenick School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 16
- School size
- 195 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Pencalenick School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- secretary@pencalenick.org
- Phone number
- 01872520385
Pencalenick School is a vibrant and progressive SEN school based in Cornwall providing high quality education and support for pupils aged 11-16 with complex learning difficulties and disabilities. Pencalenick School also has the benefit of four outreach Area Resource Bases (ARBs) which are based within mainstream schools at Budehaven, Brannel, Falmouth and Mount Charles. Two of our ARBs offer primary provision and two offer secondary provision.
Pencalenick School and the ARBs are members of the Special Partnership Trust, an ambitious and inspiring collaboration of specialist provision in Cornwall, with a focus on excellence in learning for everyone.
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