Teaching Assistant (Attached to a named student)
Tibshelf Community School, Alfreton, Derbyshire, DE55 5LZ10 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
1 December 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
14 November 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: 32 hours x 39 weeks
Contract type
- Fixed term - This post is directly attached to one pupil, whilst they attend Tibshelf Community School.
Full-time equivalent salary
- Grade 7 - Pay Point 8
What skills and experience we're looking for
Essential:
- Working independently
- Delivering outcomes
- Driving improvement
- Dealing with a range of stakeholders
- Supervision of others
Desirable:
- Working in a school environment
- Minimum of two years’ experience of working with children in an educational setting
- Minimum of one years’ experience of working with children
Essential:
- Organisation skills including prioritisation and planning own and others
- Communication skills both written and oral
- Listening skills
- Accuracy and attention to detail
- Ability to build relationships and influence
- Proven track record of contributing to improvement
- Ability to contribute to and undertake specialised practices
- Ability to comply and work with school procedures and policies
- Awareness and understanding of statutory policies and procedures affecting schools
Desirable:
- Knowledge and understanding of the National Curriculum including the literacy and numeracy strategies.
- First aid procedures
Essential:
- To work effectively with all stakeholders
- Initiative and judgement to resolve problems independently relating to their work and the work of others.
- Supervise pupils effectively both in and out of school in line with the school’s behaviour policy.
- To complete work and plan work independently for their work, including classroom activities
- Ability to help pupils transfer their learning to other parts of their lives.
Essential:
- Numeracy and literacy to GCSE level (minimum C grade)
- Professional development
Desirable:
- NVQ Level 3 in specialised area or equivalent
What the school offers its staff
We recognise the importance of ensuring that all staff at Tibshelf Community School enjoy a healthy work-life balance in order to ensure they can not only provide the best teaching and learning outcomes to our students, but that the school can promote a culture of progress and wellbeing at all levels.
A happy working life and career at Tibshelf Community School is supported by some of our key wellbeing initiatives including:
- Whole Staff Induction programme
- 1-1 personalised performance management/appraisal system
- Mentors for ECTs
- Exemplary CPD programme
- Leadership Development Opportunities
- Sports & social events
- Dedicated department bases for teaching faculties
- On-site parking
- Laptops with secure home-school access for all teaching staff
- Extended access to school during our wider opening hours
- Access to the canteen and dining facilities
In addition to the above, all staff members have access to complimentary medical and wellbeing support services available 24 hours a day/7 days a week including (but not exhaustive):
- Nurse support service
- Emotional support and counselling
- Workplace assessments
- Occupational health referrals for access to Physiotherapy and workplace adjustments
Commitment to safeguarding
Tibshelf Community School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. All staff and volunteers are required to undertake a criminal record check via the DBS before they can be appointed.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@tibshelf.derbyshire.sch.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Tibshelf Community School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 810 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Tibshelf Community School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@tibshelf.derbyshire.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01773 458038
Tibshelf Community School opened on a brand new £17m purpose built site in November 2013. We were inspected by Ofsted (September 2021) and were judged to be a ‘Good’ school in all categories.
We are a popular, over-subscribed, 830 strong 11-16 school serving a rural area of North East Derbyshire. We draw students from a geographically dispersed catchment area of nine villages. The official PAN is 150 students per year group but numbers are well above this in all year groups. The proportion of students from minority ethnic groups is very low and significantly below national averages. 30% of the intake are ‘disadvantaged’ and are supported through Pupil Premium funding; 30% of students are SEND, with 5% having an EHCP, including a number of pupils with ASD. The school’s deprivation index is very close to the national average, but it is in the top third within Derbyshire LA and contains a number of wards with extremely high levels of deprivation. Prior attainment data suggests that students are close to national average.
Ofsted September 2021 said:
“There are high expectations of every pupil at Tibshelf Community School. Teachers and leaders are ambitious of what pupils can achieve academically and how they can develop personally. Pupils have very strong relationships with staff at the school. There is a feeling of family and community which is evident and pupils say they are happy and feel safe”
Arranging a visit to Tibshelf Community School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@tibshelf.derbyshire.sch.uk.
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