Teaching Assistant

Consett Academy, Consett, County Durham, DH8 6LZ

26 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  January 2025

• Closing date

  5 November 2024 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  8 October 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £13,020.00 - £14,160.00 Annually (Actual) Actual salary based on working 22 hours per week term time + 1 week

Teaching Assistant job summary

Teaching Assistant
Grade 3
Part time 22 hours per week
Monday, Thursday & Friday
(Based on working 22 hours per week, Term Time + 1 Week)

This is an exciting opportunity for enthusiastic practitioners to join Consett Academy and work with us as part of the team who rapidly transforms the school to one that offers outstanding provision and is school of choice in its community.

Starting January 2025, we wish to appoint a Teaching Assistant to join our existing Inclusion team. The purpose of the post is to carry out a range of duties that enable students with learning needs to fully access standard and differentiated curriculum activities. The post holders will work closely with all other members of the Inclusion team and teachers to promote high standards of inclusion and learning opportunities.

The core purpose of this role is to:

Plan and deliver a selection of interventions to small groups of students

Work with class teachers to raise the learning and attainment of students

Promote students’ independence, self-esteem and social inclusion

Provide support to students, individually or in groups, so they can access the curriculum, take part in learning and experience a sense of achievement

Duties will include:

Contribute to effective assessment and planning by supporting the monitoring, recording and reporting of pupil performance and progress as appropriate to the level of the role

Use allocated time to devise clearly structured activities that interest and motivate learners and advance their learning

To provide cover when for colleagues when required

Provide high quality learning resources for all students though the use of adaptations and differentiation

Liaise with parents/carers/outside agencies where appropriate

Communicate their knowledge and understanding of students to other school staff and education, health and social care professionals, so that informed decision making can take place on intervention and provision

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.

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Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Consett Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1577 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Consett Academy website (opens in new tab)
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