Teaching Assistant

Alverton Primary School, Penzance, Cornwall, TR18 4QD

12 days remaining to apply

Start date details
September 2024
Closing date
17 July 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
5 July 2024

Job details

Job role: Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage: Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern: Part time: 26.25 hours per week/43.699 weeks per year
Contract type: Fixed term - Until 31.08.2025
Pay scale: TPAT Point 4

What skills and experience we're looking for

The successful applicant must:

▪ have the ability to work as part of our team;

▪ maintain, form and develop positive and strong professional relationships within the learning community as a whole;

▪ show a high level of commitment to, and enthusiasm for, the role;

▪ be able to empathise with the needs of the children;

▪ be able to support pupils with strategies to help them communicate, develop within their play and become independent learners;

▪ have energy, flexibility and drive;

▪ have high expectations for themselves and their pupils.

What the school offers its staff

Whatever the needs of a child, we aim to ensure that our pupils grow, feel safe, have fun and enjoy success. We want our pupils’ time at Alverton to be memorable and to encourage them to become lifelong learners. We actively safeguard and promote pupils’ welfare and we want everyone in our school community to feel a sense of pride and ownership in what we achieve together in providing the best possible learning opportunities for our pupils.

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.