Teaching Assistant
Durham Trinity School & Sports College, Durham, DH1 5WBThis job expired on 23 February 2024
Job start date
15 April 2024
Closing date
23 February 2024 at 3pm
Date listed
6 February 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2, Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Part time: 32.5 hours per week, 40 weeks 6.5 hours per week, 40 weeks
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £23,500 to £24,702
What skills and experience we're looking for
3 Teaching Assistants Required from 15 April 2024 (or as soon as possible after this date). The Governors are seeking to appoint highly motivated, committed and experienced Teaching Assistants who will play a key role in providing support for pupils with special educational needs. The successful candidate will support the Class Teacher in the teaching and welfare of pupils.
There are 3 posts:
2 x 32.5 hours per week (Monday-Friday)
1 x 6.5 hours per week (Monday)
Please state on the application form which posts you are applying for.
We are looking for candidates who:
- Have experience in caring for children with special educational needs
- Demonstrate excellent behaviour management skills
- Can work as a part of a team, learning with and from other colleagues
- Enjoy working independently and with initiative
- Can work effectively with children either individually or in small groups to enable them to achieve their best
- Are highly organised and has good time management skills
- Are flexible, proactive and resourceful
- Demonstrate good English and Mathematics skills (GCSE Grade 9-4 (old grade A-C) or equivalent/higher)
- Have excellent communication skills, both oral and written Understands confidentiality and safeguarding procedures
Application forms and further details are attached and completed application forms should be returned to Durham Trinity School & Sports College, Dunholme Close, Aykley Heads, Durham, DH1 5WB.
An enhanced DBS check and pre-occupational health check are an essential part of the selection and recruitment process.
Only fully completed Durham County Council Support Staff Application forms will be accepted and must be returned by 5.00pm on Friday 23 February 2024.
What the school offers its staff
Durham County Council is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We want to develop a more diverse workforce and we positively welcome applications from all sections of the community.
Applicants with disabilities will be invited for interview if the essential job criteria are met.
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.
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About Durham Trinity School & Sports College
- School type
- Special school, ages 2 to 19
- School size
- 246 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 19
- Ofsted report
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- Email address
- alison.jefferson@durhamtrinity.net
Generic all-age Local Authority Maintained Special School
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