Teaching Assistant
Riverside Primary School, Gillingham, Kent, ME8 8ET2 days remaining to apply
Start date details
November 2024
Closing date
29 September 2024 at 5pm
Date listed
18 September 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £17,387.00 - £19,542.00 Annually (Actual) NJC Grade D2 Point 4 -11
Teaching Assistant job summary
Salary: NJC Grade D2 Point 4-11 £17,387 - £19,542 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: November 2024
We are seeking to appoint a full time (32.5 hours / 5 days per week) Teaching Assistant 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.
Closing date: Sunday 29th September at 5pm. We reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.
Interview date: TBC
This vacancy will close on or before the specified closing date depending on the volume of suitable applicants. 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.
CVs are not accepted.
About Riverside Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- View all Primaryjobs
- 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)
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