Teaching Assistant
Coppice Academy, Newcastle, Staffordshire, ST5 2EYThis job expired on 14 June 2023 – see similar jobs
Start date details
Sept 2023
Closing date
14 June 2023 at 5pm
Date listed
25 May 2023
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern
- Full time: 37
Contract type
- Fixed term - Fixed Term Contract to 22 July 2024 with possibility of extension dependant on funding
Full-time equivalent salary
- SET Grade 5 Scale Points 16 - 20 £21,968 - £23,194 FTE salary per annum,
Pay scale
- Actual Salary: pro rata salary £18,166 - £19,180 per annum
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you committed to making a difference? Someone who has high expectations of students and colleagues? Excited about teaching and learning?
We are looking to appoint a person like you who is an enthusiastic and highly motivated Teaching Assistant. We need a professional and enthusiastic person to work with our staff and students across the school.
You will demonstrate a caring and supportive approach, be highly motivated and be an excellent team player who aspires to high standards. You will provide direct support to students to help raise their confidence and attainment in subjects both at KS3 and KS4.
Our forward thinking Principal is looking to appoint motivated colleagues in a range of areas. The Coppice is proud to be part of Shaw Education Trust which is a growing, multi-academy trust based in Staffordshire. As part of the trust, our new colleagues will benefit from high quality professional development and will be supported in their career progression by our new and inspiring leadership team. You will be an outstanding teaching assistant willing to embrace and develop our collective values and ethics. In return your efforts will be recognised and rewarded and your contribution valued and celebrated by our whole school community. Our sole aim is to enable every one of our children to thrive and reach their potential as well as enjoying their time at the Coppice.
What the school offers its staff
Learning, Achieving and Growing Together is our mission statement. We believe in the abilities of our students and their successes never cease to amaze us and make us proud.
The ethos of the school encourages students to have a can-do approach that supports them to build resilience and confidence in a safe environment.
We reward and applaud positive achievements at all levels and encourage students to have a positive attitude to changes and challenges. We believe passionately in the value of an inclusive engaging education that includes various pathways and training along with diverse educational environments and methods which allow all our young people to achieve their potential to become successful and rounded citizens of the future.
SHAW EDUCATION TRUST was established in 2014 and is sponsored by Shaw Trust and is a growing group of dynamically awesome academies providing education to children of all ages and abilities. Staff across our team of schools are dedicated to ensuring that every child has the opportunity to be successful, whatever their starting point in life. Unlike other MATs, we don’t enforce a curriculum for all our schools to follow. Instead, we support each individual school to offer a programme that enables our students to deepen their knowledge, develop their skills, sparks their imagination and fires their curiosity.
Shaw Education Trust offer the following benefits with your Teaching or Support Staff employment:
- An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (Support Staff) / Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff)
- Access to health and wellbeing support via Occupational Health
- Cycle to work scheme
- Access to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help you grow, contribute and flourish in your role and in the Trust.
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.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Coppice Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- School size
- 112 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Coppice Academy website
- Email address
- natalie.turner@shaw-education.org.uk
At Coppice Academy every student plays their part in making ours a unique learning environment. Each young person has talents which we recognise and encourage, relationships and friendships to develop, challenges to overcome and a bright future ahead of them to look forward to.
Our team of highly trained, enthusiastic staff provide each student with an exciting, individualised learning programme which engages, motivates and fosters a love of learning. Students are continually supported and encouraged to become the best they can be; academically and personally.
Well-equipped classrooms, excellent quality of care and cohesive multi agency working ensure that the diverse needs of all our students can be met. We provide opportunities to learn in the community and develop vocational skills to empower students to become meaningful contributors to society.
Our mission is ‘Learning, Achieving and Growing Together’. We believe in the abilities of our students and their successes never cease to amaze us and make us proud. Students leave Coppice Academy ready for the next phase of their lives; going on to Further Education, college, employment, independent living and university.
Arranging a visit to Coppice Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email natalie.turner@shaw-education.org.uk.
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