Teaching Assistant
Garsington Church of England Primary School, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX44 9EWThis job expired on 18 December 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
January 2025
Closing date
18 December 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
9 December 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
- £24,404.00 - £24,790.00 Annually (FTE) £10,786.40 Actual Salary based on 19.5 hours per week, term time only
Teaching Assistant job summary
We are looking to appoint a Teaching Assistant
Fixed Term Contract - 06 January 2025 to 21 April 2025
Hours: 19.5 hours a week. (Two full days 8.30 am - 15.15 pm (45 minutes for lunch unpaid) & three mornings 8.30 am - 12.15 pm
What skills / experience are required
We are looking for someone with the following qualities:
Keen to learn and the ability to act with initiative
A resilient ‘can-do’ attitude
Kind and caring
A commitment to inclusivity and excellence
Relational and a team player
The ability to be a positive role-model
What we can offer / about our school
As a medium-sized school situated within a multi-academy trust, candidates will benefit from excellent support from a strong school-based Senior Leadership Team. Across the River Learning Trust, there are exceptional opportunities for professional networking and personal development. Our Red Kite Values: Responsibility, Enthusiasm, Determination, Kindness, Independence, Teamwork, Enrichment.
Our School Vision: Nurturing everyone to flourish in a community where all can believe and achieve (The Parable of the Sower Matthew 13:1-23)
Visitors comment on the warm atmosphere in the school. Our children are friendly, enthusiastic, and welcoming. They strive to do their best and enjoy attending school. We offer candidates the opportunity to join our supportive and motivated team of staff and governors with excellent opportunities for professional development.
Education has the power to change lives, communities and society for the better. At RLT we believe that we can achieve more for our pupils, trainees, staff and communities by working together rather than alone. Schools in RLT are united by a common belief in the benefits of working together, and by our commitment to shared principles.
OUR VISION is for our schools and SCITT to improve rapidly, continuously and sustainably: to be better faster together.
OUR ‘WHY?’ is that children and young people ‘only get one go’ in school and therefore as part of RLT we aim to ensure the best possible ‘go’ for our pupils.
OUR ‘HOW?’ is through the highest support and challenge for our schools and each other, underpinned by our principles.
Our employees benefit from a wide variety of support including extensive continuing professional learning and development opportunities, wellbeing and staff networks and access to Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (TPS and LGPS) for all staff. For more information on what it is like to work for the Trust, and the benefits you could access, please see our “Working in RLT” guide.
This role includes regulated activity relevant to children.
The school reserves the right to consider and interview candidates ahead of the closing date if appropriate. An offer may be made to an exceptional candidate in this instance.
If you would like to have a confidential conversation with the Headteacher Z Darchambaud, about the role, prior to application, then please email zdarchambaud@garsingtonprimary.org or telephone 01865 361263
The River Learning Trust and Garsington School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. The Trust is required to conduct a variety of checks and online searches about you as part of their recruitment process in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. It is an offence to apply for certain roles within schools if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
For all RLT Safer Recruitment Documentation candidates should click on the following link RLT Safer Recruitment Documents for Candidates. Please see our website for up to date policies including our Child Protection and Behaviour Policies.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. For further guidance for applicants click on this link List of offences that are not filtered
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.
About Garsington Church of England Primary School
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 205 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
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