Teaching Assistant

Chepping View Primary Academy, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, HP12 4PR

95 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 April 2025

• Closing date

  24 February 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  15 October 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £23,297.00 - £23,258.00 Annually (FTE) Buckinghamshire Pay Range 1B £23,297 - £23,258 FTE depending on experience & qualifications. Actual £17,087 -£17,286 pro rata

Teaching Assistant job summary

Teaching Assistants

Job title:	Teaching Assistants
Salary:	Buckinghamshire Pay Range 1B £23,297 - £23,258 FTE depending on experience & qualifications. Actual £17,087 -£17,286 pro rata
Hours:	32 hours 30 minutes per week- including 30 minutes lunch duty cover minimum of 25 hours may be considered, subject to needs of the academy
Weeks:	39 weeks term time weeks per annum including INSET days (as set by IFPT)
Closing date:	24th February 2025
Contract type:	Fixed term contract till end of academic year, with strong possibility of renewal
Potential Start date:	1st April 2025 (provisional)- Pending satisfactory clearance of pre-employment checks
Benefits:	Trustee Day (one well-being paid day off per year), Wrap Around Child Care available to staff.
Interviews:	Week commencing 3rd March 2025 Interviews may be offered prior to closing date, upon receipt of strong applications. Early applications are encouraged

Job role:

Are you?

• Able to demonstrate suitable experience and/or qualifications for working in our Academy.
• Child centred and put children’s best interests at the heart of all that you do.
• Highly motivated in supporting young children to make excellent progress.
• Able to respond appropriately to the wide ranging and sometimes complex needs of the pupils.
• A caring and patient individual.
• A strong team member who can foster positive relationships with pupils, staff parents & carers
• Flexible, adaptable and able to work on your own initiative.

As a Teaching Assistant, you will work alongside teachers to support the educational, social and developmental needs of children. You will help enable children to achieve and be successful. You will take ownership of, and support the shared responsibility for, the well-being, education and behaviour of children. As a Teaching Assistant you treat all pupils with dignity, building relationships rooted in mutual respect, and at all times observing proper boundaries appropriate to the professional position.

Successful candidates will be positively committed to shaping and changing the lives of children.

This role involves being a strong team member and having the ability to work in partnership with all stakeholders.

Job Description:

Main responsibilities:

• Supporting learning in class for small groups and 1 to 1 during and outside of teacher input
• Supporting pupils with additional needs with their specific learning goals, including those with social, emotional and mental health needs
• Helping children to develop both socially, emotionally and academically
• Supporting pupils with their reading, writing and maths.
• Providing verbal feedback to pupils, helping to move their learning on
• Promoting the inclusion of different cultures and life experiences
• Managing behaviour and routines within the academy behaviour policy
• Preparing resources and activities as necessary, supporting the teacher with administrative tasks such as changing reading books.
• Carrying out medical duties (training will be provided)
• Supporting children for part of lunch time
• Contributing to the safeguarding culture of the academy and ensuring children are safe in school
• Contributing to the Chepping View staff team effectively

The post-holder will be expected to carry out the following- please also refer to the attached

An up-to date understanding of the EYFS is very desirable but induction and training will be provided including First Aid and Child Protection.

This Job Description describes in general terms the normal duties which the post holder will be expected to undertake. However, the job or duties described may vary or be amended from time to time without changing the level of responsibility associated with the post.

The post-holder will be expected to carry out the following- please also refer to the attached Job Description:

• Safeguarding
• Teaching and learning
• Working collaboratively
• Health and welfare of children
• Break and lunchtime duties

Person Specification

Please refer to the attached document

Visits:

To discuss the role further or to arrange a visit please contact our Principal via email: office@cvpa.school or telephone 01494 535 564

Application and Selection Process:

As part of the application process we invite applicants tocomplete the mynewterm application form, referring to the job description and person specification detailed above.

In compliance with Safer Recruitment guidelines, CV’s cannot be accepted and you will need to complete an online application form to be considered for this position

Deadline: 24th February 2025

Interviews may be offered prior to the closing date, upon receipt of an exceptionally strong application.

For more information about our Academy please visit our website: https://www.cheppingviewprimaryacademy.org/Office

Shortlisting:

Candidates will be notified if they have been successful. Interviews may be offered prior to then, upon receipt of an exceptionally strong application.

Chepping View Primary Academy and the Inspiring Future’s Partnership Trust are committed to safeguarding children, promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Online searches will be completed prior to shortlisting and an enhanced DBS and qualifications check will be carried out upon appointment of all successful candidates

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

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Chepping View Primary Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 426 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Chepping View Primary Academy website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/chepping-view-primary-academy (opens in new tab)

Chepping View Primary Academy is a combined primary academy, National Support School and National Behaviour Hub. We are also the founding school of Inspiring Futures Partnership Trust, a small MAT in Buckinghamshire, comprising of 3 schools.

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