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Teaching Assistant - Fixed Term

Elstow School, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK42 9GP

This job expired on 1 December 2023 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  January 2024

• Closing date

  1 December 2023 at 9am

• Date listed

  16 November 2023

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £23,037.00 - £23,414.00 Annually (Actual) Advantage Schools Support Staff Scale 3-4

Teaching Assistant - Fixed Term job summary

Fixed Term (until August 2024) 35 hours per week, Term Time Only (including 5 Training Days) (39 weeks per year). Monday-Friday 8.15am – 3.45pm (including 30 minutes unpaid lunch break) – FTE 0.8666 (39 weeks per year)

Required for January 2024

We are seeking an inspirational, dedicated and passionate Teaching Assistant to join our thriving school, the successful candidate will join our highly effective team and share our values of aspiration, honesty and respect.

Duties and Responsibilities:

To work collaboratively with colleagues as part of a professional team, in particular the class teacher, the Special Educational Needs Co-Ordinator (SENDCo) and other teaching assistants, working at all times within the school’s policies and procedures

Working within the overall plan set by the class teacher or SENDCo to assist in devising and extending educational activities and in preparation of the curriculum.  This may include contributing to the development and implementation of Individual Provision Plans (IPPs) and Personal and Pastoral Support Plans. 

To promote and support the inclusion of all pupils in the learning activities in which they are involved.

To help assess and systematically record pupils’ progress and achievements, using the results of this monitoring in further support work. 

The successful applicant will join our staff working under the instruction and guidance of experienced teaching staff, to undertake educational activities and attend to the educational, personal and social needs of pupils in order to support their learning and development whilst ensuring their safety.

We are a primary school, where teachers and students know and look out for each other. Our school leaders maintain a highly visible role and teaching a knowledge rich curriculum is a priority.

For more details please look at the Job Description and Person Specification. 

Closing Date: 09.00, Friday 1 December 2023 although we reserve the right to close the position and interview early should a suitable candidate apply.

Safeguarding children enrolled at the school is of paramount importance, and we are fully committed to the protection and safe care of our students. The successful applicants will be required to undertake appropriate checks as well as providing proof of your right to work in the UK.

Commitment to safeguarding

Safeguarding children enrolled at the School is of paramount importance, and we are fully committed to the protection and safe care of our students. The successful applicants will be required to undertake appropriate checks as well as providing proof of your right to work in the UK.

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About Elstow School

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 410 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Elstow School website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/elstow-school-bedford (opens in new tab)

In 2017, Elstow School was proud to join Bedford Free School and become part of an exceptional offer to families in Bedford.

Elstow School offers a truly enriched and academic curriculum. We really do believe that our pupils can go on to achieve extraordinary things.

We take our values of We Care, We Share, We do our best, very seriously. They underpin our routines, our curriculum, and what we strive to develop in our pupils.

We work hard on our culture in which the highest expectations and aspirations surround all of our pupils, delivering on our families’ demand for excellent educational opportunities.

We deliver a knowledge-based curriculum to enable our children to go on to excel at secondary school and beyond. We make sure that the latest research informed practice guides our teaching development and this in turn means that the lessons are coherent.

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