Teaching Assistant
Crowdys Hill School, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN2 7HJ20 days remaining to apply
Start date details
To be confirmed
Closing date
10 January 2025 at 9am
Date listed
20 December 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £24,153.00 Annually (FTE) Salary paid pro rata for 33.75 hours per week plus holiday, over 12 months, actual grade dependent on qualifications and experience
Teaching Assistant job summary
Crowdys Hill is seeking inspiring, dedicated individuals to work across our provisions in the role of specialist teaching assistant. Crowdys Hill is a dynamic and forward-thinking special school for pupils with moderate learning difficulties and complex needs from across the Borough of Swindon and beyond.
Your daily duties will include:
- Greeting pupils from their buses and bringing them into school
- Settling the class into their tutor group
- Supporting teachers in ensuring all pupils can access their curriculum
- Movement and handling support of pupils as needed
- Personal and medical care for pupils as needed - training provided
- Supervising pupils at break and lunchtimes
- Working closely with teachers to ensure all pupils are supported in school
- Escort pupils onto their buses to go home
If this sounds like the job for you, then we can offer:
- Friendly and supportive colleagues.
- Supportive school, committed to achieving exceptionally high standards.
- An interesting, diverse and exciting career.
- Small class sizes to allow you to give more time and individual attention to pupils.
- A strong ethos and a commitment to collaborative working.
- A commitment to safeguarding and the promotion of the welfare of children and young people.
- A sense of achievement at the end of a day.
- Ongoing training in all areas of the role.
- Variety to work across all ages of pupils.
- Opportunities to continue with training in relevant areas of interest.
- Opportunities to take on extra responsibilities and roles.
- You will be a Swindon Borough Council employee, under their pension scheme.
- You will have access to other SBC employees discount schemes.
- A calm and reliable attitude with common sense is required.
- Free on-site parking.
Visits to the school are highly recommended and encouraged before applying.
No previous applicants or CV's will be considered.
In accordance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998, jobholders should take reasonable care to ensure that personal data is not disclosed outside Council procedures, or use personal data held on others for their own purposes. In accordance with the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, ensure requests for non-personal information are dealt with in accordance with the Council’s written procedures.
To comply with the Asylum and Immigration Act 1998 (as amended by S147 of the Nationality and Immigration and Asylum Act 2002) all prospective employees will be required to supply evidence of eligibility to work in the UK. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
Applicants must be fluent in the English language (as a requirement of Part 7 of the immigration act – for the effective performance of a customer-facing role).
Crowdys Hill School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment, all post holders are subject to background checks, an Enhanced Criminal Records Bureau Disclosure and employment checks.
Online searches will be carried out and references will be called for and checked prior to interview. The right to work in the UK, qualifications and proof of address will be checked at the time of the interview.
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
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Crowdys Hill School
- School type
- Special school, ages 4 to 19
- School size
- 306 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 19
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Crowdys Hill School website (opens in new tab)
School location
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