Teaching Assistant

Lower Meadow Primary School, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S8 8EE

10 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  6 January 2025

• Closing date

  4 December 2024 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  22 November 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £25,183.00 Annually (FTE) Term time contract - 34 hours per week - actual salary £19,968 per annum

Teaching Assistant job summary

Lower Meadow Primary is a forward thinking and rapidly developing school. We are seeking to appoint a Teaching Assistant who will support the development of Foundation 1 children in class and through specific interventions.

The successful candidate will have experience of working with children across a wide range of abilities to ensure good progress in all areas, and of working with those with social interaction and communication difficulties.

Our Teaching Assistants:

• Establish productive working relationships with pupils, acting as a role model and setting high expectations
• Support children consistently whilst recognising and responding to their individual needs
• Liaise with teachers to deliver activities to support pupils’ learning, and provide the teachers with feedback on impact
• Model and promote positive values, attitudes and behaviour.

Our ideal candidate will:

• Have recent, relevant and successful experience in a primary school setting - ideally in Foundation Stage
• Build and maintain successful working relationships with pupils
• Support the inclusion of all pupils, including those with specific needs
• Want to make a real difference
• Promote good behaviour and deal promptly with conflicts and incidents
• Utilise strategies to support pupils in achieving learning goals.

In return, we offer you:

• Excellent CPD opportunities
• A strong caring ethos and supportive team
• Enrolment into the Local Government Pension Scheme
• An induction and well-being package
• Networking opportunities across the wider Astrea Academy Trust team.

If you are joining us from another school, academy or trust we recognise your continuous service date with confirmation from your current employer. This can positively impact a number of entitlements, including increased annual holiday payments which represent an increase in salary. This can be discussed in more detail at interview.

Interested in applying?

Please see the attached Applicant Brief for more information, and don't hesitate to get in touch to arrange a visit to the school or to find out more.

Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to satisfactory background checks including references and enhanced DBS checks.

Commitment to safeguarding

Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to satisfactory background checks including references and enhanced DBS checks. 

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About Lower Meadow Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 2 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 304 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Lower Meadow Primary School website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/lower-meadow-primary-school (opens in new tab)

Lower Meadow Primary Academy is a 3-11 Academy; we sit in South Sheffield on the border with Derbyshire and chose to join Astrea Academy Trust in July 2016. We have a strong team that drive school improvement and strive for the best outcomes for all children.

The Academy is seeking to attract a talented, knowledgeable, and committed team member who can demonstrate high aspirations for all our children along with the enthusiasm and resilience to support all aspects of a child’s education. The successful candidate will have the

opportunity to work in a supportive, professional learning community that seeks excellence and play a key part in the next step of our journey towards Outstanding.

Lower Meadow Primary Academy has been on a journey of improvement over the last six years and we were pleased to be recognised as a “Good” school by Ofsted in 2019. Our emphasis is on consistently high quality teaching and learning throughout school and across all areas of the

curriculum to raise children’s outcomes and allow them to move onto secondary school fully prepared. We believe strongly in building our children’s aspirations and helping them to become good learners so they can build on their successes each year and achieve their full potential. We use the Astrea Values to help build children’s life skills and prepare them fully for secondary school. Our children behave well and enjoy coming to school. All staff are committed to providing the very best for all children. Teamwork is a strong part of our ethos, with a supportive and nurturing staff and a culture of continual improvement in all that we do.

Those we recruit can demonstrate that they share our values, have the child at the centre of everything they do, are highly motivated to work with colleagues to continuously develop their skills, pursue professional excellence and are committed to providing the highest standards consistently. If you feel that you can support our ethos, we would be delighted to receive your application.

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