Teaching Assistant
Ashby School, Ashby-De-La-Zouch, Leicestershire, LE65 1DT21 days remaining to apply
Start date details
Easter or Summer term
Closing date
12 February 2025 at 9am
Date listed
13 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Part time: 6.5 hours per week, term time plus 1 week.
Contract type
- Fixed term - Until July 2026
Actual salary
- £3,787 - £3,901
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
We support our students’ learning through a range of staff positions including administrative support for the smooth running of our school, our data team to support tracking and intervention of student progress and our reprographics and library team who support our students to open their minds through reading. We also have an active and engaged team of technicians working in our practical subjects to both support and facilitate learning in a student facing way. Alongside these, our cover supervision team work with students in the event of staff absence to maintain learning. They are skilled at building relationships with young people and embodying our ethos of empowering students to learn whatever the circumstances.
On a more individual basis, our Teaching Assistants work with individual and small groups of students with a range of leanring needs. They also contribute to our intervention programme lead by our intervention lead TA and delivered alongside our academic tutors. Our learning and pastoral systems come together in a range of facilities including:
- The LINC Learning and Inclusion Centre where our dedicated team of Teaching and Learning Support Assistants work with students with Sepcial Educational Needs in both classroom settings and intervention groups.
- The Bridge focussing on supporting student well-being.
- The Gateway, an on-site Alternative Provision supporting students who find mainstream learning more challenging through facilitating a range of hybrid learning models.
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 Ashby School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- 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
- g-lees@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’.
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