Teaching Assistant
Admiral Lord Nelson School, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO3 5XT8 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
22 November 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
8 November 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 hours per week/ 40 weeks per year (term time only plus 1 week) Monday to Thursday 8am-4pm, Friday 8am-3.30pm
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £23,152 - £24,362
What skills and experience we're looking for
Do you believe that students deserve the very best education? Do you want to work with enthusiastic, dedicated colleagues who are committed to our students? This role is for those who like a challenge, working with young people and enjoy doing something different every day.
‘The role is very rewarding and fulfilling. Every day is different, and you will constantly learn and be challenged.’ Deborah De Caen
If this challenge appeals to you, please visit our website to find out more about the role.
In June 2022, OFSTED agreed the school continues to be a good school, the inspectors were incredibly impressed with the high quality of both our safeguarding and our extensive curriculum offer here, both in academic lessons and beyond lessons in our personal development curriculum. We were thrilled to see how much the inspectors valued our inclusive approach to education and our commitment to being ambitious for every child, ensuring that they are well supported to be successful in their learning at school and in their preparation for adulthood. In June 2019, our school won the highly prestigious TES Award for Creative School of the Year in recognition of our commitment to creativity across all aspects of our curriculum.
Salterns Academy Trust is a learning community where every member of staff understands the difference they can make to our students’ outcomes.
If you have an interest in using your skills in this area, then please complete an application form and return it to us. Applicants must have GCSE A*-C or equivalent in English and Mathematics.
Key Purposes:
- To support the learning and care of students across all areas of the curriculum through appropriate interventions that empower students to be able to raise their own achievement and academic progress.
- To provide Emotional Literacy interventions for individual students or small groups.
- To cover the Medical Room and Inclusion Room in the absence of the Inclusion Room Manager or Medical Safeguarding Support Worker, including covering their daily 30 minute breaks.
- To deliver cover lessons in the absence of the teacher.
What the school offers its staff
Admiral Lord Nelson has a proven track record for providing a route into teaching for those with suitable skills and qualifications. We are fully committed to training and developing successful candidates and welcome applications from those with or without prior experience.
Admiral Lord Nelson School Employee Benefits:
- Excellent CPD opportunities and career progression
- Employer contribution to the Local Government or Teacher Pension Scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Opportunity to sign up to the bike2work scheme
- Free parking
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.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@alns.co.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Admiral Lord Nelson School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1212 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Admiral Lord Nelson School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@alns.co.uk
- Phone number
- 02392364536
Always oversubscribed, we are expanding our school so that more local families can experience the excellent education offered here at Admiral Lord Nelson School for over two decades! Therefore, we are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic Science teacher who works well in a team. We are looking for a specialist with strong subject knowledge, who quickly builds relationships with students and breaks down barriers to learning. We want a teacher who inspires children to achieve their potential and loves to see their students experiencing the joy of success every day in their learning!
Salterns Academy Trust is a learning community where every member of staff understands the difference they can make to our students’ outcomes, both academically and to their personal development. Our commitment to being a UNICEF Rights Respecting School is at the heart of our inclusive ethos and curriculum, with mutually respectful relationships forming the foundation of our happy, successful school. At Admiral Lord Nelson School, we work collegiately with our partner school, Trafalgar School in the pursuit of excellence in Science education so that we are significantly improving the life chances of all of our young people in Portsmouth.
We have a national reputation for being a truly inclusive school with excellent standards and principled curriculum design, having a very high Ebacc entry. Our deep-rooted and longstanding commitment to being a UNICEF Rights Respecting School led to us being the only school invited to a garden party with all the Soccer Aid celebrities hosted by the Prime Minister at 10 Downing Street and we have recently been reaccredited with UNICEF RRS Gold Award status in recognition of our ambassadorial work. We are equally passionate about promoting creativity across all aspects of our curriculum, for which we were the first school in England to hold a Triple Artsmark Platinum Award and were designated the TES Creative School of the Year for 2019. This is a genuinely exciting school to be part of, morally driven by our core values of Inclusivity, Wellbeing and High Expectations; we really do value our staff and place the voice of our incredible students at the heart of all we do!
Arranging a visit to Admiral Lord Nelson School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@alns.co.uk.
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