Teaching Assistant
Oxford Spires Academy, Oxford, OX4 2AUThis job expired on 19 April 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
19 April 2024 at 1pm
Date listed
4 April 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £23,114.00 - £23,500.00 Annually (FTE) £17,526.82-£17,819.51 Actual Salary
Teaching Assistant job summary
Oxford Spires Academy is seeking to recruit a passionate and caring Teaching Assistant with excellent communication, literacy and numeracy skills to join a committed team of educational professionals.
In this role you will be working closely with the teachers and SEN school staff to improve outcomes, you will enable access to the curriculum and to facilitate full inclusion for a young person or groups of young people with special needs.
Previous experience of working within SEN department is desirable but training will be given. However, a proven ability to work positively in a team setting, including listening and taking into account the views of others, and actively sharing information is essential.
In this exciting and varied role, it is essential that you have empathy with the young people and be sympathetic to their needs whilst understanding the importance of high expectations so that they can achieve of their best in all aspects of school life.
The hours will be 08:30 - 15:30 Monday to Friday (with 30 minutes lunch) 32.5 hours per week. The role is term time only plus 5 inset days per year.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and require all staff and volunteers to share and demonstrate this commitment. The successful candidate will have to meet the requirements of the person specification and will be subject to the relevant pre-employment checks which will, where applicable, include a health check, an enhanced DBS check, the Children’s Barred List check and satisfactory references.
It is an offence for an individual who has been disqualified from working with children to knowingly apply for, offer to do, accept, or do any work in a ‘regulated activity’. The position advertised is a ‘regulated activity’. Anthem will undertake a basic online check for all shortlisted candidates.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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.
About Oxford Spires Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1345 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Oxford Spires Academy website (opens in new tab)
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