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Teaching Assistant

Birches Head Academy, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST2 8DD

This job expired on 3 January 2023 – see similar jobs

Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
3 January 2023 at 9am
Date listed
6 December 2022

Job details

Job role: Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern: View all Part timejobs
35 hours per week, term time
Contract type: Permanent
Actual salary: 17452 - 18424

What skills and experience we're looking for

Qualifications & Training

Essential:

• Good general standard of education at Level 2 or above, including English and maths

Desirable:

• NVQ Level 3 or equivalent in childcare related subject or willingness to work towards relevant

qualification

Experience and Knowledge

Essential:

• Experience of working with children

Desirable:

• Experience of working in an education environment with students with SEMH needs.

Skills and Abilities

Essential:

• Well organised

• Flexible.

• Able to work on own initiative

Desirable:

• Good ICT skills.

Additional Requirements

• A willingness to undertake appropriate training.

• Awareness and sensitivity with regard to equal opportunities and race equality.

• Undertake First Aid training as required.

What the school offers its staff

Our vision is to provide:

• An exceptional academic education to all

children (Intellectual Capital)

• A values led approach to education for

every child (Cultural Capital)

• The right environment for every

child to flourish by building learning

communities in partnership with parents

and carers (Social Capital)

Further details about the role

Purpose of the Post:

• To provide support to students with Social, Emotional and Mental Health needs

to overcome barriers to learning in a personalised learning centre within the

Academy.

• To provide support to teaching staff in the preparation of Teaching and Learning

materials and wider educational opportunities.

• To provide learning support to students working in small groups outside the

classroom in collaboration with subject teachers to develop good literacy and

numeracy skills and enable them to continue to access mainstream education.

• To be a personal tutor for a small group of students.

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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