Teaching Assistant in KS2

Collingwood Primary School, Hull, East Yorkshire, HU3 1AW

5 days remaining to apply

Job start date
1 September 2024
Closing date
5 July 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
24 June 2024

Job details

Job role: Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage: Key stage 2
Working pattern: Part time, term time: 30 hours per week, term-time only
Contract type: Fixed term - 12 months - until 31st August 2025
Full-time equivalent salary: £23,500 - £24,294 FTE
Actual salary: £15,948.34 (actual starting salary)
Pay scale: Grade 4, Point 5 to 7 (NJC)

What skills and experience we're looking for

Collingwood Primary School are seeking to appoint a hardworking, highly motivated and committed Teaching Assistant to join our strong, supportive and friendly team. We are particularly interested in applications from candidates experienced at working with children in KS2.

Collingwood Primary School is part of the Hull Collaborative Academy Trust and is a dynamic learning community which welcomes all. We work in close partnership with parents and the wider community to nurture and support all our children to become healthy, independent, successful and caring citizens in a multicultural and fast-changing world.

Our community is a place of safety where firm boundaries guide and support; where care and respect build self-esteem and self-belief; and where high expectations create a gateway to lifelong learning, soaring aspirations and brighter futures. We work restoratively to create and sustain a vibrant, diverse, high-achieving, multi-cultural inner-city learning community.

The role will include:

Supporting children in groups and 1:1
Delivering maths, writing and phonics intervention as required
Taking part in regular performance management and supervision.
Participating in reflection, dialogue and problem- solving discussions with small groups of staff.
Making optimum use of observations to plan effective learning sequences for the child/children
Working closely with the class teacher to support learning and admin tasks
Effective use of ICT

What the school offers its staff

Applicants must:

promote and safeguard the welfare of children;
ensure high expectations for children’s learning are maintained through responding to children’s individual needs during child-initiated play;

have excellent interpersonal skills
be committed to working effectively and restoratively with colleagues; volunteers, parents, children and visitors;
be highly motivated, enthusiastic and supportive team players;
Full and relevant Level 2 (NVQ level 2 equivalent)
GCSE Maths & English A-C grades

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.