Teaching Assistant
Atlantic Academy Portland, Portland, Dorset, DT5 2NAThis job expired on 18 October 2021
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
18 October 2021 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
8 October 2021
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Part time: 37 hours a week
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £20,092 - £21,748
Actual salary
- £17,130 - £18,542
Teaching Assistant job summary
Primary Teaching Assistant
Salary - Scale Point 7 - 11 (£17,130.27 - £18,542.16)
Term Time only - 37 hours per week
Permanent
Start Date: Immediate
Closing Date: 12.00 pm Monday 18th October 2021
Interview: Friday 22nd October 2021
JOB OVERVIEW
We have an exciting opportunity for a hardworking and energetic Primary Teaching Assistant to join our highly successful team of mutually supportive colleagues whose shared purpose is to inspire and challenge all pupils at Atlantic Academy. The successful candidate will be someone who is able to assist in delivering inspiring and exciting learning experiences to learners embarking on a career in the 21st century.
Here at Atlantic Academy Portland, we are seeking to appoint a highly skilled, professional and team orientated person. We need a Teaching Assistant that understands and can meet the needs of all children.
You will be part of a successful, supportive, well resourced and fully qualified Primary team. We encourage best practice through a variety of CPD opportunities. We are looking to appoint a candidate that puts children first, mitigates barriers to learning, has a can-do approach and will help an individual and individuals make academic progress.
JOB REQUIREMENTS:
Specifically we are looking for someone who:
Who has experience of working with and supporting children
Is naturally cheerful and optimistic, with evidence of the positive contribution that you can bring to our team;
Is hardworking, dedicated, committed
Wants to be valued, train further and help us make a difference.
A commitment to all students receiving an outstanding education experience.
If you are up for a challenge and want to make a difference then you really should come and work in our terrific academy on the next step of its journey.
If you believe that this may sound like the school you would thrive in and are ambitious for all students please find out more about this exciting opportunity by visiting our career page and school website.
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.
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About Atlantic Academy Portland
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 16
- Education phase
- View all Through schooljobs
- School size
- 787 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Atlantic Academy Portland website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- ahill@atlantic-aspirations.org
- Phone number
- 01305 820262
WHY CHOOSE US
Atlantic Academy is an all-through school based in Portland, and has already made great waves in transforming the education of the students in Portland in the last 3 years, leading the way in the highest standards of education as well as disruption free learning. We are looking for somebody to join our amazing journey and be proud of the substantial impact they make on the outcomes and aspirations for our students.
Atlantic Academy Portland is gaining a local and national reputation for rapid sustained improvement.
The Academy is located in stunning buildings, having benefited from a £20 million plus full renovation program. It is situated on the beautiful Isle of Portland, at the heart of the Jurassic Coast, in Dorset. Within easy reach of Weymouth, Dorchester, Yeovil, Poole and Bournemouth. This really is an Academy at the very heart of the community.
The Academy is sponsored by the Aspirations Academies Trust (www.aspirationsacademies.org) and is a member of one of their three clusters: The South Coast and South West Region, which consists of Jewell Academy Bournemouth (Primary), Ocean Academy Poole (Junior), Magna Academy Poole (Secondary) and Budmouth Academy (Secondary) and Bovington Academy (Primary).
WHAT WE OFFER
Competitive Salary
Pension Scheme
On-site parking
Expectation of disruption free learning, high SLT visibility ALL day, focus on students. Allowing staff to teach without low level disruption
Visualiser and mini iPad in every classroom – allowing for booklets, feedback, student work etc to be projected – as the teacher decides
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