Teaching Assistant
Skinners' Kent Primary School, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN2 3GS11 days remaining to apply
Job start date
6 January 2025
Closing date
9 December 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
28 November 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Part time: Part-time, 3 days a week.
Contract type
- Fixed term - 6 months
Pay scale
- Main Pay Scale 5 Point 14
What skills and experience we're looking for
TEACHING ASSISTANT - 3 days per week, 39 weeks per year. Fixed term (until summer 2025. Start date on this role is January 2025.
We are looking for a highly motivated Teaching Assistant to support the learning of pupils and work alongside the class teacher to raise standards and maintain our very high expectations.
The successful candidate will be a hardworking, creative, energetic individual who is passionate about supporting the teaching staff in securing high quality learning, raising standards and having a positive impact on pupils' learning experience. To work under the guidance of the teaching staff to support pupils on a 1-1 basis, support learning activities, maintain pupil records and promote pupils' social and emotional development.
They will work as part of an outstanding team of Teaching Assistants and will be committed to ensuring Quality First Teaching and Learning.
Key responsibilities:
Working under and alongside the class teacher to plan and deliver a range of learning activities, including small group focus sessions.
Support pupils throughout the school day, including a lunch duty.
Monitoring and evaluating pupils’ responses to learning activities through observation and planned recording of achievement.
Contributing to the delivery of sessions lead by the class teacher to support the development and initiating other learning activities to develop pupils’ skills.
Providing feedback to pupils on their progress and achievement.
Providing feedback to teaching staff on pupils’ progress and achievement.
Providing specialist support for pupils as required, including personal care when needed.
Assisting with the assessment of work as required.
Assisting with the development and implementation of ILPs/provision sheets.
Assisting with the supervision of pupils outside of lesson time, including extra-curricular activities.
Promoting a positive view of pupils with special educational needs throughout the school.
Assisting in the personal and social care of pupils.
Encouraging pupil confidence, interpersonal skills, self-esteem and independence.
Keeping daily records and contributing to reports as a part of the review procedure for pupils with special educational needs.
Being sensitive to and familiar with the learning needs of all designated pupils.
Contributing to behaviour management for whole class and with individual pupils as appropriate.
Carrying out administrative, clerical and organisational tasks related to the work of the SEN Function.
Participating in meetings as required.
Safeguarding the health and safety of pupils.
Accompanying pupils on educational visits.
Supporting lunch duty supervision.
Attending and supporting pupils at Trust events as appropriate.
Additional duties
Attend team meetings and staff meetings as required
Maintain confidentiality inside and outside the workplace
Understand and apply the School and Skinners’ Academies Trust policies
Undertake any reasonable additional responsibilities requested at any time by the Skinners’ Academies Trust Leadership Team.
What the school offers its staff
We offer:
An exciting and vibrant place of work
Timetabled staff social times, where staff are free to
choose their activities whether on site or off site without Academy responsibilities
Staff have access to the following programmes as part of their employee package:
Headspace, providing resources and research around mindfulness and meditation
Maitland Health: Wellbeing and health promotion initiatives including full access to a
dedicated Wellbeing website
Free use of The Skinners’ Kent Academy’s fitness suite and sports facilities
An email protocol which supports communications only between the hours of 7am and 6pm
A working onsite protocol which encourages everyone to be off-site no later than 6pm
Random act of kindness initiatives
A commitment to support staff with personal issues and an empathetic approach to such events
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
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About Skinners' Kent Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 210 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Skinners' Kent Primary School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@skinnerskent.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01892534377
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