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Teaching Assistant (Early Years)

Leigh Academy Cherry Orchard, Ebbsfleet, Kent, DA10 1AD

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• Start date details

  January 2023

• Closing date

  10 October 2022 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  22 September 2022

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Early years
• Working pattern: Full time: 32.5 hours per week (8.30am - 3.30pm, Monday - Friday), Term Time + 1 week inset
• Contract type: Fixed term - July 2023
• Full-time equivalent salary: Actual salary £15,706 per annum (£20,789 full time equivalent)

Teaching Assistant (Early Years) job summary

Cherry Orchard Primary Academy has afantastic opportunityto appoint aTeaching Assistantto join and support our classes within our highly successful academy that opened in 2017. This role is ideal for those who genuinely have a passion for helping children within a primary setting and our successful candidate will be based in Reception. The working basis for the successful candidatewill be on a fixed term contract until July 2023in thefirst instance, 32.5hours per week (8.30am - 3.30pm, Monday - Friday) during Term Time + 1 week inset.We offer a wonderful working environment with the friendlieststaff and pupils!

There is also the opportunity to work additional hours, if you are available, in our twice-weekly After School Provision (3.30pm - 6.00pm).

The role is offered on a maternity cover basis in the first instance, with every intention to support you to secure substantive employment at COPA or the wider organisation thereafter.

What does the role involve?The main aim of this role is to support our teachers to deliver academic excellence, day in, day out, with professionalism and enthusiasm. This will involve providing a comprehensive support service to the Academy including:

• Assisting students with their educational and social development, on an individual and group basis
• Providing support for individual students inside and outside the classroom to enable them to fully participate in activities
• Assisting teachers with the maintenance of student records
• Building and maintaining successful relationships with students, whilst treating them with respect and consideration
• Provide expertise to deliver a personalised curriculum for each pupil’s learning
• Work together with families and other agencies to ensure every pupil is valued, challenged and supported
• Have the highest expectation that every pupil will make sustained academic and personal progress

Each and every member of staff, regardless of their position or seniority, is expected to participate in the overall running of the school and act as a positive role model for our students.In and out of the classroom you will encourage and promote positive behaviour and effectively manage any situation that threatens to impact the progress of other students.

Teaching Assistant life at Cherry Orchard Primary Academy: Being a Teaching Assistant at Cherry Orchard Primary Academy is a great opportunity to work with really experienced staff and amazing pupils.Don’t just take our word for it...click here​​​​​​​to find out more from some of our existing TAs!

We are looking for someone who demonstrates the following:

• Have high expectations of teaching and learning
• To be a positive role model
• To contribute to the positive ethos of the school
• Be able to work collaboratively with a range of children and adults
• Be keen to develop as a professional
• Previous, recent experience in a similar education setting
• Being independent and able to work under pressure

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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 Leigh Academy Cherry Orchard

• School type: Academy, ages 2 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 449 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Leigh Academy Cherry Orchard website
• Email address: talent@latrust.org.uk
• Phone number: 01634412200
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/cherry-orchard-primary-academy

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