Teaching Assistant
Outwood Academy City Fields, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF1 4SF12 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
18 September 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
5 September 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern
- Part time: Monday to Friday, 30 Hours per Week. Term Time Plus Five Days.
Contract type
- Fixed term - October 2024 to July 2025
Full-time equivalent salary
- £23,500 to £23,893
What skills and experience we're looking for
- Experience of working in a school environment or working with children / young people;
- Working flexibly to meet business needs;
- Previous experience of working with children with Special Needs and / or disabilities and / or challenging behaviours;
- Experience of working with students in small groups or in 1:1 situations;
- Ability to effectively communicate with a wide range of audiences;
- Ability to use standard ICT packages including Microsoft Office;
- Ability to respect and maintain confidentiality, including following data protection regulations;
- Ability to relate to students in a pleasant and sympathetic manner and to recognise potential child safeguarding issues.
What the school offers its staff
Outwood Grange Academies Trust supports colleagues by funding an extensive range of accredited training courses and apprenticeship opportunities up to Masters level. We also offer:Your starting salary with annual increments plus inflation linked increases. The starting salary within the grade advertised will be dependent upon your experience. You will also receive:
- A comprehensive induction and training process
- Automatic enrolment into an increasingly rare and valuable defined Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution rates
- Flexible family friendly policies from day one
- Enhanced occupational benefits available (such as maternity, adoption and parental leave) with no qualifying period
- Holidays: A minimum of 25 days plus bank holidays (this increases with length of service)
- A range of working patterns are available dependant upon the role
Automatic enrolment into our Employee Assistance Programme which gives you and your family members free access to:
- Specialist information on a wide range of work-life issues
- Emotional support and counselling for a wide range of personal and work issues
- Legal guidance
- Financial guidance and debt counselling
- Child and dependent care support and advice
- Support for managers
We are also a wellbeing employer with a dedicated wellbeing policy and menopause policy along with menopause champions based in our academies. Other benefits include:
- Free flu vaccinations
- Free onsite parking
- Employee discounts such as competitively priced Synergy Car Leasing
- Access to various discount sites
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 Outwood Academy City Fields
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 855 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Outwood Academy City Fields website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- a.jarrett@cityfields.outwood.com
- Phone number
- 01924 298752
Secondary Academy
Arranging a visit to Outwood Academy City Fields
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email a.jarrett@cityfields.outwood.com.
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