Teaching Assistant / 1-1

Riverside Primary School, Gillingham, Kent, ME8 8ET

12 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  3 January 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  12 December 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £18,356.00 - £20,511.00 Annually (Actual) NJC Grade D2 Point 4 -11

Teaching Assistant / 1-1 job summary

Salary: NJC Grade D2 Point 4-11 £18,356 - £20,511 per annum

Hours: 32.5 hours, 39 Weeks (Term Time plus 1 Week), permanent

Location: Riverside Primary School, St Edmund’s Way, Rainham, Kent, ME8 8ET

Required: ASAP

We are seeking to appoint a full time (32.5 hours / 5 days per week) Teaching Assistant / 1-1 to support the Class Teachers at Riverside Primary School across the Key Stages from Foundation Stage to Year 6. This may involve working with a class or supporting a child on a more intensive basis, providing 1-1 support. You may also be required to deliver intervention programmes under the direction of the Inclusion Manager.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide teaching support in small groups and where necessary work with individual pupils to the highest standards
  
• Assist the implementation of individual programmes for pupils and help monitor their progress
  
• Undertake specific duties identified by the class teacher
  
• Maintain a positive, supportive attitude within a team
  

Requirements:

• NVQ Level 3 Teaching Assistant qualification or equivalent (or willingness to work towards)
  
• Experience of working with children with Autism and/or Speech and Language difficulties would be advantageous
  
• Understanding of children with different behavioural needs
  
• Ability to work independently or as part of a team
  
• Possess a desire to help all children achieve their best
  
• Have a caring nature and a deep regard for children
  
• Enthusiastic, energetic and adaptable
  
• Excellent communication skills
  

Riverside Primary School:

We are a popular, mainstream community school, which is part of Rainham Mark Education Trust. The school had a good Ofsted Inspection in November 2019, and was recognised as being Outstanding in the areas of Behaviour and Attitudes and Personal Development. The key values held by our school community add to the success and inclusive nature of the school. These values are Curiosity, Happiness, Aspiration, Respect, Articulacy, Community, Teamwork, Equality and Resilience – ‘Character’.

The school has two integrated special provisions for a small number of children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder or Visual Impairment, who are taught in the mainstream classes with appropriate support.

A visit to the school is highly recommended, please call 01634 623500 to make an appointment.

If you would like to be considered for the post, please apply via My New Term.

This vacancy will close on or before the specified closing date depending on the volume of suitable applicants and interviews will be scheduled on a rolling basis. If you have not heard from us within 21 days of the closing date, please assume that you have not been short listed on this occasion. We wish to stress that no discourtesy is intended in following such a procedure, and you should not let this deter you from future applications.

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.

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Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Riverside Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 442 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Riverside Primary School website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/riverside-primary-school-gillingham (opens in new tab)

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