Teaching Assistant
Avanti House Primary School, Stanmore, HA7 3JB2 days remaining to apply
Job start date
2 September 2024
Closing date
21 May 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
8 May 2024
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, part time, term time: 35 hours per week
Contract type
- Fixed term - Until 31st August 2025
Full-time equivalent salary
- Salary: Grade 3, £24,325 - £25,442 per annum. Approximately £18,156- £18,990 per annum pro rata (0.74641 FTE)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Please note that we may close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, we'd encourage you to submit your application as early as possible.
We are looking for an innovative and inspirational Teaching Assistant who puts the welfare and progress of children at the centre of everything they do and are able to support our students in reaching their full potential.
What will you do?
- Act as a role model for pupils and set high expectations while supporting their learning effectively.
- Meet personal needs of pupils, fostering independence, and commit to safeguarding and welfare of children.
- Support pupils with special educational needs, contribute to individual learning plans, and encourage cooperative interaction.
- Assist teacher in planning, developing, and delivering curriculum, covering for teacher's absence when necessary.
- Prepare classrooms, monitor pupil responses, administer tests, and maintain classroom displays.
- Comply with school policies, attend meetings and training, provide emotional and social support to pupils, and assist with pastoral care and staff development.
- Aid in curriculum development, including literacy, numeracy, and ICT skills, adapting resources as needed and undertaking additional duties as required.
For a more comprehensive list of the job responsibilities, please view the full Job Description
What are we looking for?
- Experience of working with relevant age group within a learning environment
- Ability to communicate clearly and concisely both orally and in writing
- Experience of general administrative work
- Ability to relate well to children and adults to build and maintain effective relationships
- An ability to understand the principles of child development and learning processes and in particular barriers to learning
- Promote and safeguard the welfare of children and young people within the school
Please view the full Job Description for more information on the essential criteria and skills required for this role.
What the school offers its staff
The staff at Avanti House Primary School are passionate about our school and are relentlessly focused on improving the achievement and opportunities for all our students. All staff that work at the school will need to subscribe to our ethos and values and seek to improve and develop their own practice and performance for the benefit of our students. This is a unique opportunity to work in a school which is driven by three key elements for both students and staff:
- Educational excellence
- Character formation
- Spiritual insight
We believe in high expectations, challenge and support to enable our students to understand and develop into the best version of themselves. Through professional development, we support our staff to excel in creating a highly successful learning environment for our students and we are an ambitious team who strive to ensure that all students enjoy learning and surpass expectations.
Why should you apply
Avanti exists to help each person become a well-rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth, and so make the world a better place.
You will be working in a fantastic environment, with:
- Great opportunities for professional development through the Avanti Institute and our family of schools
- LGPS pension scheme subject to eligibility criteria
- O2 discounts, Specsavers corporate eye test vouchers
- Flexible working opportunities
- Eligible for NUS Card and CSSC membership
- Access to multiple well-being programmes (Weekend Retreats, Yoga Classes and Apps)
- Cycle-to-work and Electric Vehicle Lease Schemes
Further details about the role
Further information
Pre-employment checks
Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.
Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.
Diversity and Inclusion
We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics.
Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.
Commitment to safeguarding
Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.
Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.
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About Avanti House Primary School
- School type
- Free School, Hindu, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- View all Primaryjobs
- School size
- 420 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Avanti House Primary School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- Careers@avanti.org.uk
At Avanti House, education is about developing the whole child and providing opportunities for them to flourish within and beyond the classroom. It is the aim of the whole school team to help each child to become a successful learner and well-rounded individual who is ready to take the next steps in their journey. As perfectly described by a spiritual saint called Radhanath Swami, “If we actually want to make the world a better place and give joy and fulfilment to our children, empowering them to give the same for others, we have to build the foundation of our education on human values.”
Avanti House is a very happy school where the behaviour and attitudes to learning by all pupils are exceptional. When Ofsted inspectors visited the school in December 2019, they reported: “Leaders and all staff place a strong emphasis on promoting pupils’’ character and their personal development. These are key features of the ‘Avanti Way’ and the school’s aims. Pupils develop a strong sense of self-belief and an understanding of respect and tolerance. Older pupils told us all about different types of family, for example, and we saw pupils discussing suffering in the world and what they could do to put an end to it.”
Our unique school community is vibrant and dedicated. All staff and parents come together to secure the very best outcomes for the pupils within their care. The relentless commitment and high expectations staff hold for our pupils is truly remarkable.
Arranging a visit to Avanti House Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email Careers@avanti.org.uk.
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