Teaching Assistant
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Job start date
1 September 2024
Closing date
21 June 2024 at 9am
Date listed
7 June 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time: Monday to Friday 35hrs per week
Contract type
- Fixed term - 1 year initially
Full-time equivalent salary
- Between £24,294 and £25,979
Pay scale
- Grade 4
What skills and experience we're looking for
For this job we are looking for:
Experience of working with or caring for children of a relevant age.
Experience of working with pupils with additional needs.
Numeracy/literacy skills with a good level of knowledge and understanding (at a level equivalent to NQF Level 2).
NVQ Level 3 for Teaching Assistants or equivalent qualification or experience.
Willingness and ability to undertake HLTA Level responsibilities (refer to HLTA standards).
Willingness to participate in training, performance management and self evaluate learning needs and actively seek learning opportunities.
Training in the relevant learning strategies and /or in a particular curriculum or learning area, e.g. bilingual.
Ability to relate well to children and adults.
Ability to work as part of a team.
An understanding of the role of the Teaching Assistant and other professionals working in the classroom.
Ability to use relevant technology eg photocopier.
Effective use of ICT to support learning.
Full working knowledge and understanding of national/foundation stage curriculum and other basic learning programmes/strategic processes and barriers to learning.
Understanding the principles of child development and learning processes.
Ability to organise, motivate and lead a team.
Knowledge of strategic processes and barriers to learning, including e.g. behaviour management strategies.
Ability to self-evaluate learning needs and actively seek learning opportunities.
Willingness to undertake first aid training as appropriate.
The role holder must have a command of spoken English which is sufficient to enable the effective performance of the role, including the ability to speak with confidence and accuracy and the ability to listen and respond appropriately dependent on the audience.
What the school offers its staff
We can offer you:
- Motivated children who are eager to learn
- A very supportive school community
- Quality CPD
Further details about the role
job@claremont.manchester.sch.uk
Commitment to safeguarding
We are fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils. All staff and volunteers are expected to share the same commitment. The above post will be subject to enhanced DBS checks, satisfactory references and will be exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
The effective safeguarding of children can only be achieved by putting children at the centre of a system where we listen and hear what they say. Every individual within Claremont Primary School will play their part.
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About Claremont Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 640 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Claremont Primary School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- job@claremont.manchester.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 0161 226 2066
We are an outward looking school, actively engaging and celebrating the diversity of our wider community. We provide a welcoming environment and implement a creative, enquiry based curriculum. We provide a range of enrichment activities and visits and ensure school is a physically secure, emotionally safe and a socially supportive environment. We offer opportunities for collaborative learning and development at all levels.
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