Teaching Assistant – General (Special School) Level 2
Horton Lodge Community Special School, Leek, Staffordshire, ST13 8RB5 days remaining to apply
Job start date
20 January 2025
Closing date
9 December 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
3 December 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Part time (Can be done as a job share): Full time: Monday - Friday 08:45 – 16:00 Part time: Monday – Friday 09:15-14:45
Contract type
- Fixed term - Until 18th July 2025 (with a view to becoming extending)
Actual salary
- Actual 32.5 hours: £18,909 - £19,209 / 25 hours: £14,546 - £14,776
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you a Teaching Assistant or Learning Support Assistant looking for an exciting challenge?
Horton Lodge School are recruiting now for teaching assistants to support our wonderful pupils to reach their highest potential. Horton Lodge is a primary age special school which caters for pupils with a range of complex special needs and disabilities. These include physical disabilities and cognition and learning needs. Many of our pupils have others needs including communication and interaction, sensory impairments and medical needs.
The successful candidate will be required to:
- Have experience of, or demonstrate a good understanding of, working with children with disabilities.
- Be able to relate well to children and adults.
- Have high expectations for all pupils.
- Work well on own initiative and as part of a wider team.
- Contribute to wider school life.
What the school offers its staff
We are offering the opportunity to work in our innovative school in a beautiful setting with pupils who are happy and enthusiastic about learning.
Our staff team are central to everything we do and so we’ll make sure you’re well supported. This is a school community where working together is at the heart of our mission.
Flexible working opportunities
- Full time (32.5 hours, Monday to Friday 08:45-16:00)
- Part-time (25 hours, Monday to Friday 09:15-14:45)
- Want flexibility? You could apply to join our bank staff.
- We will accept applications for anyone wishing to job share.
Commitment to safeguarding
Horton Lodge is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
This position is subject to a criminal records check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) which will require you to disclose details of all unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions in your application form.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to bloor.l@hortonlodge.staffs.sch.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Horton Lodge Community Special School
- School type
- Special school, ages 2 to 11
- School size
- 60 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- bloor.l@hortonlodge.staffs.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01538 306214
Horton Lodge Community Primary School is a maintained special school for children aged 2-11 years with physical disabilities, associated learning difficulties and a range of complex needs including communication, sensory, and health. Horton Lodge is a small and friendly school with incredibly passionate staff who are constantly striving for the very best for our pupils.
We are offering the opportunity to work in our innovative school in a beautiful setting with wonderful pupils who are happy and enthusiastic about learning. We have a skilled and highly dedicated staff team and a very supportive Governing Body. Appropriate training and support will be offered to the successful candidate to ensure they are successful in their duties.
We are looking for a candidate with the following:
• High professional standards and expectations
• Excellent teaching and classroom practice
• Knowledge of curriculum developments, assessment procedures and educational initiatives within a specialist SEND setting
• The ability to lead a team of support staff and to inspire, challenge and motivate others across the school
• Commitment to making a positive contribution to the wider life and ethos of the school.
Arranging a visit to Horton Lodge Community Special School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email bloor.l@hortonlodge.staffs.sch.uk.
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