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Teaching Assistant

Manor Primary School, Ivybridge, Ivybridge, Devon, PL21 9BG

This job expired on 1 March 2025 – see similar jobs

Closing date
1 March 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
11 November 2024

Job details

Job role: Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern: Part time
Contract type: Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary: £6,787.00 - £6,893.00 Annually (Actual) NJC Grade B

Teaching Assistant job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join Manor Primary School and Westcountry Schools Trust. We are a dynamic organisation with our students and staff at our heart. We are looking to appoint a teaching assistant to join a committed, supportive and hardworking team who work together to provide a caring, inclusive environment where there is a strong ethos of achievement for all.

This post is initially to work within our Communication and Interaction Resource Base. Scale point B3 - B4, 12.5 hours per week, term time only, Monday to Friday. This post is fixed term until the end of the summer term 2025.

We would like someone who is keen to support children’s learning as part of a flexible and hardworking team. Suitable candidates will have a very good standard of English and maths, have excellent communication skills, be able to use their initiative and be computer literate. Additionally, candidates will have a very good understanding of inclusion and be able to sensitively support children with communication, interaction and learning needs. You will be required to support learning and deliver interventions either in small groups or on a 1-1 basis, following specific plans. You will also be required to assist in recording pupil assessments and providing general classroom support.

The successful candidate will need:

Excellent communication skills with a high standard of spoken and written English
Excellent mathematical understanding
Successful experience of working in a primary school with children who have a variety of needs, particularly Autism.
A commitment to supporting pupils in ensuring the achievement of high standards
A flexible, hard-working disposition with excellent initiative
A willingness to be part of a team, and to be involved in the wider aspects of school life

We can offer you:

A friendly, supportive staff team
Well-behaved, enthusiastic children
A great learning environment
Support for your continued professional development

Westcountry Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post will be subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure and provide at least two written references, requested prior to interview. Information about out key policies is available at: https://www.westst.org.uk/our-policies (this includes our DBS Policy, Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy, and Recruitment and Selection Policy).

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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