Teaching Assistant

Chelveston Road School, Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire, NN10 8HN

11 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  14 October 2024 at 9am

• Date listed

  1 October 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: Special Education Needs (SEN)
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £22,737.00 - £23,114.00 Annually (FTE) Government Pay Award Pending

Teaching Assistant job summary

Chelveston Road School is a school for students with special educational needs and disabilities. The school is part of the Better Together Learning Trust and caters for students with a range of learning and cognition needs as well as autism. In September 2022, Chelveston Road School opened its Post 16 provision to Year 12 students and in September 2025 we will welcome our final cohort of students and will have students in every year group.

We are looking to appoint a Teaching Assistant to support high quality teaching and learning across the Trust/School. The successful applicants must possess the necessary skills to assist our students to make even better progress and gain skills and accreditation for later life.

Applications are welcomed from anyone who can:

Demonstrate their ability to work both as a member of a team and individually.

Can demonstrate an awareness of the needs of our students.

Has a good level of education with appropriate literacy and numeracy skills.

Possess good communication skills both verbally and written.

A positive attitude and drive are also very important to us.

We offer:

A newly built, well-equipped, modern school.

A committed staff team.

Opportunities for innovative ways of working.

An opportunity to build and further develop good practice.

High quality professional development opportunities.

We are an Equal Opportunities employer and welcome applications from appropriately qualified persons regardless of gender, race, religion, disability or age. Better Together Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be required to complete an enhanced Disclosure Barring Service check and any offer of employment will be subject to satisfactory references.

Commitment to safeguarding

We are an Equal Opportunities employer and welcome applications from appropriately qualified persons regardless of gender, race, religion, disability or age. Better Together Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be required to complete an enhanced Disclosure Barring Service check and any offer of employment will be subject to satisfactory references.

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 Chelveston Road School

• School type: Free School, ages 11 to 18
• School size: 92 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Chelveston Road School website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/chelveston-road-school (opens in new tab)

We are a secondary school for pupils with an increasingly diverse range of special educational needs.

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