Teaching Assistant
Kingsbrook View Primary Academy, Broughton, Buckinghamshire, HP22 7EE13 days remaining to apply
Start date details
6th January 2025
Closing date
6 December 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
11 November 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £23,297.00 - £24,879.00 Annually (FTE) Actual salary will be pro-rata to hours & weeks -estimated gross salary based on 32.5 hours £17,354-£18,533 pro rata approx. per annum
Teaching Assistant job summary
Teaching Assistant
| Job title | Teaching Assistant |
| Salary | Bucks Pay Range 1B to 2 dependent on experience Actual salary will be pro-rata to hours & weeks -estimated gross salary £17,354-£18,533 pro rataapprox. per annum Based on 39 weeks per year (equal to 38 weeks term time plus INSET training days) |
| Hours | Full time: 32.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday 8:30am – 3:30pm) |
| Contract type | Permanent |
| Closing date: | Friday 6th December 2024 |
| Interviews: | Week commencing Monday 9th December 2024 |
| Starting date | Monday 6th January 2025-(provisional)- Pending satisfactory clearance of pre-employment checks |
| Responsible for | Teaching and learning of pupils |
| Line managed by | SENDCo/SLT |
Teaching Assistant - Job Role
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.
Does this sound like you?
- You are child-centred and put children’s best interests at the heart of all you do
- You understand the needs of the children you are supporting and respond accordingly
- You are able to engage children, allowing them to make progress
- You can demonstrate suitable experience and/or qualifications for working in a school context
- You are flexible, adaptable and able to work on your own initiative
- You have enthusiasm and the qualities of a strong team member
- You foster positive relationships with pupils, staff and parents/carers and communicate effectively
- You embrace core moral values such as integrity, resilience and respect
- You have a good sense of humour and a positive outlook
This role requires you to have a suitable standard of English and Maths, as well as a strong grasp of spoken English. Successful candidates will be required to engage in the statutory training needed for this post.
In turn, we offer you:
- A chance to work alongside amazing children who are keen to learn and have high aspirations
- An opportunity to work alongside a highly professional, committed and talented staff team
- An opportunity to grow and develop as a professional through high quality bespoke personal and professional development
- A brand new, state-of-the-art building with dedicated facilities and spaces for supporting learning
- A vibrant and inclusive community
Job Description
Main responsibilities
The post-holder will be expected to support whole class learning, groups of children or individual children having specific or particular needs, as directed. The post-holder will share in the care and wellbeing of pupils throughout the academy. Teaching Assistants will be fully informed about the needs of groups and individuals’ they are supporting and where working with named children the outcomes of their Educational Healthcare Plan and those targets set by external professionals.
Teaching assistants will work under the direction of class teachers and the Head of Academy to support and deliver planned learning interventions.
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
- Administrative assistance
- Standards and quality assurance
- Behaviour and classroom management
- Health and welfare of children
- Break and lunchtime duties
Person Specification
Please refer to the attached document
Application Process
For more information about our Academy please visit our website www.kvpa.org.uk or to discuss the role further or arrange a visit please contact our Academy office, via email: office@kvpa.school or telephone: 01296 255000
How to apply:
Interested candidates should complete the online application on the My New Term portal, which includes a personal statement that should outline your suitability for the post by referring to the job description and person specification.
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
- Closing Date: 12pm Friday 6th December 2024
- Interviews will be held the weeks beginning: Monday 9th December 2024
Interviews may be offered prior to the closing date, upon receipt of an exceptionally strong application.
Shortlisting:
Candidates will be notified if they have been successful for interview. Interviews may be offered prior to the closing date, upon receipt of an exceptionally strong application.
Kingsbrook 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
Kingsbrook 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 & BCC Self-Declaration form will be completed prior to shortlisting and an enhanced DBS and qualifications check will be carried out upon appointment of all successful candidates.
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.
About Kingsbrook View Primary Academy
- School type
- Free School, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 269 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
The newest primary Academy in Buckinghamshire is growing rapidly, creating a number of exciting opportunities. Are you ready to join our expanding team and become part of something very special and rewarding?
Kingsbrook View opened in September 2021, with just 3 classes (90 pupils), and was built to serve the primary education needs of the new Kingsbrook residential development.
We currently have 5 classes, up to Year 3. In September 2023, we will be opening an additional 4 classes, across the Academy, taking us up to 9 classes (2 in Foundation Stage; 2 in Year 1; 2 in Year 2; 2 in Year 3 and 1 in Year 4) totalling 270 pupils. Our rapid growth means that we have a number of opportunities to join our expanding and dedicated staff team. We will continue to grow until we reach our final capacity of 472 places, up to the end of KS2.
At Kingsbrook View Primary Academy we are committed to delivering inspirational learning opportunities that are engaging, purposeful and challenging as everyone has the potential to achieve and excel. We have a passion for learning and we value the power of learning in securing a successful future. Our pupils take ownership of their learning to become highly aspirational and be able to make positive contributions to life in modern Britain.
Kingsbrook View Primary Academy:
• Has a strong set of values, modelled and followed by all
• Provides an excellent primary education for all children attending
• Enables all children to be highly aspirational and reach their potential
• Has high expectations of all
• Develops resilience, independence and self-regulation
• Provides a broad, rich, engaging and challenging curriculum
• Is an active and prominent establishment within the local community
• Provides a secure and happy environment where everybody’s safety and wellbeing matters: children, parents and staff.
• Meets the individual needs of children and their families through a proven model of outstanding teaching and learning
• Values the contribution outdoor learning makes to a stimulating curriculum as well as wellbeing
• Celebrates diversity through an inclusive culture based on equality and respect
• Is a member of the Inspiring Futures Partnership Trust, drawing on the expertise and capacity of other Trust members to deliver outstanding provision
Our values permeate all that we do and we expect all children, parents, staff, Trustees and visitors to live and breathe these values. These values underpin our curriculum as they are central to being successful individuals, who make a valued contribution as citizens in the modern world.
Aspiration: aiming high, having high expectations and striving for the best
Resilience: responding to challenge, overcoming difficulty and learning from mistakes by having a growth mindset
Respect: valuing everyone’s contributions and demonstrating respect for ourselves and others
Integrity: being open and honest, showing commitment to what is right and being proud of who we are
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