Teaching Assistant
Ashby School, Ashby-De-La-Zouch, Leicestershire, LE65 1DT11 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
27 August 2024 at 9am
Date listed
16 August 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3
Working pattern
- Part time: 32.5 hours a week, 39 weeks a year
Contract type
- Fixed term - July 2026
Actual salary
- £17,966.02- £18,268.24
What skills and experience we're looking for
Essential:
• Enjoyment of working with children
- Understanding of the importance of and ability to build supportive student/adult relationships.
- Ability to communicate effectively with young people and adults both verbally and in writing.
- Good numeracy and literacy skills - GCSE C/4+ or equivalent in English and Maths.
- Good ICT skills.
- Engagement with on-going learning.
- Ability to work well within a team.
- Self-motivated, ability to work on own.
- Good organisational skills
- Willingness to develop and attend training as necessary.
- Willingness to pro-actively share expertise with others and contribute to team learning opportunities.
- Ability to work under pressure and react calmly to confrontation.
- Able to be totally confidential and discreet.
- Recent record of good health, attendance and punctuality.
- Enhanced clearance by the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Desirable:
• Evidence of effective relationships with young people.
• Evidence of good working relations with a range of people.
• Qualification/specialism or interest to work within a specific department.
• Evidence of organisational ability.
• Recent ICT qualification.
• Evidence of meeting deadlines and ability to prioritise.
• Willingness to undertake First Aid
training to support activities
outside of school i.e. trips.
What the school offers its staff
Ashby is a school with a proud history and a strong position in the local community; where students are delighted to learn, and staff are excited to work. It is also a school embracing innovation as we transition through age-range change. We welcomed our first Year 7 students in September 2022 who start our progression to an all through school whilst we continue to welcome Year 10 students transitioning from our local High Schools until this August 2024.
We are thrilled about the opportunities that will be created by this exciting change and know that all members of our school community will benefit from it. Part of the LiFE Multi-academy Trust, our School and Sixth form pride themselves on putting students at their heart. We want all our students to be happy and successful and are committed to ensuring that all students fulfil their academic potential. However, at Ashby, we realise that academic success is only a part of our role as educators. We offer our students a range of opportunities to enable them to embrace our core values; to ‘Show Respect’; 'Accept Responsibility’ and ‘Build Resilience’ to prepare them for their successful futures. We were delighted to see our approach to this work and the results of our recent improvement and innovation reflected so positively in our OfSTED inspection in January 2024 where we were judged to be a good school with a good sixth form provision.
Ashby is also a school built on the power of its staff. We have a great team of professionals, with exceptional subject knowledge, who enthuse students about the subjects they love. Ashby School also takes huge pride in growing the professionals of the future; working closely with a range of local ITT providers, as well as utilising professional development opportunities both within and beyond the MAT to ensure that investing in our staff is a key feature in our improvement strategy. This is evidenced by so many of our staff staying at Ashby year after year with several growing from their NQT year into Senior Leadership positions and giving back to their school community through the work they do.
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
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@ashbyschool.org.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Ashby School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1527 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Ashby School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@ashbyschool.org.uk
Ashby School is a thriving, successful and over-subscribed 11-19 Academy with over 1,600 students on roll including 500 in Ashby Sixth form. Conveniently located close to the M42 and M1, within easy reach of several areas of outstanding natural beauty and with the national forest on the doorstep, the school is set in its own attractive grounds in the expanding market town of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire.
At Ashby School prides itself on putting students at its heart. We want all our students to have a happy and successful learning experience and are committed to ensuring that all students fulfil their academic potential.
Everyone in the Ashby School community is committed to achieving this, because, at Ashby, ‘Anything is Possible’.
Arranging a visit to Ashby School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@ashbyschool.org.uk.
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