Teaching Assistant
The Skipton Academy, Skipton, North Yorkshire, BD23 1UQThis job expired on 17 April 2023 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
17 April 2023 at 9am
Date listed
21 March 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: Pattern of hours: Monday – Friday 8.30am – 4.30pm with half an hour unpaid lunch break each day and an early finish of 4.00pm one afternoon each week. Term time only, plus 5 days
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Salary scale point 5 (range 5-6)
What skills and experience we're looking for
- Some experience of secondary school-age children
- Understanding of children’s needs and problems
- Successful experience of motivating, coaching and encouraging students to achieve more
- Aware of requirements under Health & Safety regulations
- Knowledge of First Aid procedures
- Evidence of the ability to work cooperatively with multi-disciplinary professionals, governors and other agencies
- Experience of working in a high-pressured environment
- Experience of managing own workload to meet conflicting demands and deadlines to ensure completion of tasks
- Defusing difficult situations in a calm manner
- Presenting yourself effectively
- ICT competence or ECDL level or equivalent
- Experience of working in a school-based environment
- Experience of e-learning including mobile technologies
What the school offers its staff
- the opportunity to make a real difference
- students with ‘highly positive attitudes to learning’
- personalised CPD with a strong commitment to professional growth and developing individual career paths
- a very calm and orderly school with high expectations and an ethos of trust and care
- a committed and established staff and a supportive leadership team, parents and Governors
- a location on the edge of the beautiful Yorkshire Dales
Commitment to safeguarding
Moorlands Learning Trust is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to the protection and safeguarding of children and young people in our recruitment procedures and in all our work across and beyond school. The school adheres to statutory guidelines in respect to safe recruitment. All persons employed by the school, in any capacity, will undergo an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, and confirmation of employment is subject to a successful outcome. All teaching staff members recruited by the school have their eligibility to teach checked with the DfE.
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About The Skipton Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 474 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- The Skipton Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- v.okeefe@theskiptonacademy.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01756 792965
The Skipton Academy is a vibrant 11-16 comprehensive school which is rapidly growing and expanding in size; pupil numbers have increased recently to such a degree that we now need to expand our staffing across a range of subject areas.
We are committed to our ethos of “Belong Challenge Inspire” and this has been key to the improvements in every aspect of the school. Our dedicated staff are fully committed to this ethos and have bought into a common goal and support each other to make The Skipton Academy a vibrant and positive place to work.
Arranging a visit to The Skipton Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email v.okeefe@theskiptonacademy.co.uk.
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