Teaching Assistant

Dauntsey Academy Primary School, Devizes, Wiltshire, SN10 4HY

11 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  6 January 2025

• Closing date

  2 December 2024 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  19 November 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £24,404.00 - £25,183.00 Annually (FTE) Term time. Pro rata.

Teaching Assistant job summary

Dauntsey Academy Primary School has an exciting opportunity for someone who would relish making a difference to the lives of our curious and happy learners. We are currently looking to recruit a Teaching Assistant to work with some of our more vulnerable pupils; joining our friendly, highly motivated and supportive team.

Dauntsey Academy is very proud of its ethos and approach to delivering an exciting curriculum. We are nestled in a beautiful setting in West Lavington, working together to ensure all our pupils have the same chance to explore, achieve and thrive whilst in our care.

Wellbeing and nurture is at the heart of what we do and if this excites and inspires you, please apply to join us.

All about the role:

Our pupils have clear ideas about who they feel would be best for the role:

• Someone smiley, friendly, kind and good at listening
• Someone good at tidying up
• Someone who can help us with our learning and make it fun

We feel that the successful candidate will:

• Have a calm, inclusive and positive attitude
• Be able to work collaboratively with other members of staff
• Be an excellent communicator, committed to being part of an effective team within the whole school community
• Experienced in working with primary aged children
• Be passionate, caring, creative and able to use their initiative
• Be self-motivated, reliable and resilient
• Have a creative approach to supporting levels of engagement
• Good record keeping skills
• As a Teaching Assistant you will be working with children and must be committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and young people and the school expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We are able to offer:

• Excellent facilities in an enviable location.
• A calm, purposeful working environment
• Delightfully happy and well behaved children.
• A commitment to your personal and professional development
• A committed and supportive team

This role will involve contact with children and the post holder will be engaged in regulated activity relevant to children and will be subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check before appointment is confirmed. We will only submit a DBS application to the relevant disclosure service when a position is accepted.

This Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow Safer Recruitment procedures and all interviews, regardless of role, will include questions about approaches to safeguarding. Our Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy is available on our website and follows all guidance in the most recent Keeping Children Safe in Education.

All posts involving direct contact with children are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. However, amendments to the Exception Order 1975 (2013 & 2020) provide that certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’. These are not subject to disclosure to employers and cannot be taken into account. Guidance and criteria on the filtering of these cautions and convictions can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.

Please note that by submitting an application, you acknowledge that we reserve the right to view any publicly available information published online (including social media platforms) as part of our shortlisting process, in line with current KCSIE guidelines.

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.

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Dauntsey Academy Primary School

• School type: Academy, Christian, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 197 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Dauntsey Academy Primary School website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/dauntsey-academy-primary-school (opens in new tab)

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