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Teaching Assistant

Whitmore High School, Harrow, HA2 0AD

This job expired on 24 January 2022 – see similar jobs

• Closing date

  24 January 2022 at 9am

• Date listed

  16 January 2022

Job details

• Job role:
  • Learning support or cover supervisor
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time: 30 hours, 40 minutes per week 8.50am – 3.20pm – Monday, Thursday, Friday 8.50am – 3.40pm – Tuesday, Wednesday 30 minute unpaid lunch break
• Contract type: Fixed term - to 22/07/2022
• Full-time equivalent salary: G2 - £14,901 per annum.
• Additional allowances:

  • State of the art building with well-equipped classrooms, excellent resources and modern facilities ; • Fantastic support from your line managers and SLT who will develop you and want to see you succeed in your career ; • You’ll be working in an OFSTED rated ‘Outstanding’ school ; • Exceptional and wide ranging CPD opportunities ; • Staff Wellbeing group who promote a healthy work life balance and arrange activities such as weekly staff yoga, well-being garden, on-site massage, weekly fruit, book club with free Kindle loan for staff etc. ; • Free annual flu jab ; • Free use of the on-site gym ; • Cycle to Work tax free bike scheme

Teaching Assistant job summary

Are you looking for an innovative and forward thinking school which genuinely invests and develops you? Then come and join us at Whitmore High School where we believe all our exceptional staff contribute to transforming students’ lives! We are looking for a Teaching Assistant who would like to be part of a friendly and hard-working team that supports students across the curriculum with a wide range of Special Educational Needs. These include: ASD, social and emotional and behavioural difficulties and physical and learning difficulties. The successful candidate will: • Help students with their work in all areas of the curriculum according to a negotiated timetable • Build up relationships with students in the class who may not have previously experienced much success at school • Attend to students' personal care including helping some with toileting; following the advice of medical professionals, psychologists and social workers working with the school • Plan with teachers how individual students' educational needs can best be met in lessons and, where appropriate, helping adapt learning resources • Be a positive team player, willing to pitch in and help out where needed and believe in the importance of team work and a collaborative approach • Be committed to the principles and practice of inclusion and equal opportunities for all • Be committed to the principles and practice of safeguarding all young people

Commitment to safeguarding

Whitmore High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and all staff are expected to share this commitment.
All appointments are subject to an Enhanced DBS check and pre-employment checks. Online searches may be completed for shortlisted candidates as part of due diligence checks. It is an offence to apply for any role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. Under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, all posts are listed as exempted employment. You therefore need to reveal all spent convictions during the recruitment and vetting process.

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About Whitmore High School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1733 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Whitmore High School website
• Email address: applications@whitmore.harrow.sch.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/whitmore-high-school

Whitmore High School is a mixed comprehensive school with an excellent record of achievement.

Students are expected to achieve the highest standards of work and behaviour in a positive, friendly but disciplined atmosphere. Our staff are highly qualified and passionate about ensuring all students reach their full potential and we work closely with parents to achieve this aim.

At Whitmore High School we aim to provide the best possible education for all our students by:

* Promoting a broad and balanced curriculum in which students take an active part in their own learning.

* Recognising the needs of individuals, placing suitable high demands on them and stimulating them to achieve success.

* Encouraging students to aim for the highest standards of work and behaviour at all times.

* Creating an ordered and friendly community where relationships are positive and founded on courtesy, respect and shared values.

* Acknowledging the importance of links between home, school and the wider community.

* Maintaining a spirit of constructive self-criticism, regularly considering improvements to existing practice.

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