Teaching Assistant
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Start date details
January 2024 (or sooner subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks)
Closing date
30 November 2023 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
14 November 2023
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: 37 hours per week, 39 weeks per year (term time plus INSET days) 8.30am-4.30pm (Monday-Thursday) and 8.30am-4.00pm (Friday) including 30 minutes unpaid lunchbreak each day
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Bucks Pay Range 1b, Scale point 8 – 10, £18,985 - £19,448 per annum (Full Time Equivalent) Actual pro-rata salary approx. £16,057 - £16,448 including around 5 weeks holiday pay.
What skills and experience we're looking for
We welcome applications from candidates with experience from educational or other relevant childcare backgrounds. We also welcome applications for graduates who are looking to gain experience before enrolling onto a teacher-training programme. The successful candidate will have:
• The motivation and passion to achieve the very best for the children with additional needs in our care and be relentless in the pursuit of excellence
• A good understanding of the Early Years Foundation Stage and/or a good understanding of the Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 curriculum
• A good understanding of the range of additional needs that pupils can have and how best to support them
• The ability to work independently as well as part of a wider team
• The ability to work on initiative
• A ‘can-do’ approach to all aspects of academy life
• A willingness to undertake professional development and grow their skills
• Excellent communication skills and a good sense of humour
What the school offers its staff
In return we can offer:
• A commitment to you and your professional development
• Friendly, supportive, enthusiastic and hardworking colleagues, staff and Governors
• A growing learning community
• Encouragement to develop new ideas and the opportunity to make a real difference
Commitment to safeguarding
At REAch2 we recognise that those who work in an academy are in a unique position in their care of children. The responsibility for all staff to safeguard pupils and promote their welfare, as stated in Section 175 of the Education Act (2002) is one that is central to our ethos, our policies and our actions. All children are deserving of the highest levels of care and safeguarding, regardless of their individual characteristics or circumstances, and we are committed to applying our policies to ensure effective levels of safeguarding and care are afforded to all our pupils.
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About Green Ridge Primary Academy
- School type
- Free School, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 527 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Green Ridge Primary Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- office@greenridgeacademy.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01296 326320
Green Ridge Academy is a new primary school built on Berryfields, which opened in September 2017 in temporary accommodation on the site of the permanent building. The permanent school building opened in September 2018. In September 2023, the academy will be two-form entry from Nursery through to Year Six, taking children from aged 2-11, with two bulge classes in YR and Y1 as we continue our preparations to become a 3-form entry school. Whilst the school currently has the capacity for over 450 children, this is an exciting time at Green Ridge, as we continue to grow our site is being expanded with the additional capacity so that by September 2024, our building will be able to accommodate over 650 children. Exciting!
Arranging a visit to Green Ridge Primary Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email office@greenridgeacademy.co.uk.
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