Teaching Assistant

Ridgeway Academy, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, AL7 2AF

24 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  December 2024

• Closing date

  4 November 2024 at 9am

• Date listed

  27 September 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subjects: Teaching Assistant, Learning Support Assistant
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £18,813.55 - £19,128.17 Annually (Actual)

Teaching Assistant job summary

Teaching Assistants

Pay scale: H3 (SCP 5 - 6) £23,500 - £23,893 paid pro-rata for hours/weeks worked

Hours: 8.00am to 4.00pm, Monday to Friday (35 hours and 25 minutes)

Weeks: Term time only (38 weeks) (0.8005764 FTE) Inset days as required

Actual salary: £18,813.55 - £19,128.17 (includes holiday entitlement)

Ridgeway Academy is part of the Ambition Education Trust (AET). The Ambition Education Trust (AET) consists of ten schools in Hertfordshire; three primary, one nursery and infants’, one juniors and five secondary. Our Trust launched in September 2024 following the amalgamation of two established Multi Academy Trusts (MATs), Alban Academies Trust and Atlas Multi Academy Trust. As a member of the AET, we are able to maximise opportunities for rewarding careers and opportunities for personal and professional development throughout our wider organization.

We are seeking enthusiastic and energetic Teaching Assistants to support students’ learning.

We can offer you:

A supportive team with a passion for continuous improvement

A commitment to professional development

A collaborative working environment

We are looking for someone who:

Is passionate about personalised learning

Able to work effectively with challenging and vulnerable young people

Has excellent organisational and interpersonal skills

Shares and delivers our vision to be an outstanding school

Is adaptable and willing to learn

Works hard, is enthusiastic and self-motivated

If you would like to join at the start on our continuing journey we would love to hear from you.

Ambition Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointment to a post at AET is subject to a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check, as well as other pre-appointment checks including an online check, as outlined in Keeping Children Safe in Education.

We are committed to the aim of ensuring that everyone who applies to work for us receives fair treatment and we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of age, disability, race, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership and caring status. We expect all our staff to demonstrate a commitment to advancing equality of opportunity and fostering good relations.

Prospective candidates are encouraged to submit their applications as soon as possible as the school reserves the right to close the advert should we feel able to appoint an appropriate candidate.

Closing date: 9am Monday 4 November 2024

Interview date: TBC

Start date: December 2024

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.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Ridgeway Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 947 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Ridgeway Academy website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/ridgeway-academy (opens in new tab)

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