Teaching Assistant

Lavendon School, Olney, Buckinghamshire, MK46 4HA

16 days remaining to apply

Start date details
February 2025
Closing date
6 January 2025 at 9am
Date listed
19 December 2024

Job details

Job role: Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern: Part time
Contract type: Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary: £14,418.92 Annually (Actual) B1 ( £24,790 FTE)

Teaching Assistant job summary

Teaching Assistant

NJC Pay Scale B1, starting at £14,418.92 per annum (£24,790 full time equivalent)

Hours: 25 hours per week, 38 weeks per year

Lavendon School is part of the Inspiring Futures through Learning, Multi-Academy Trust. IFtL is committed to developing a family of schools whose purpose is to inspire the futures of us all through learning together.

We are looking for an experienced individual to join the team and provide high quality care and education that meets the needs of children in a school setting. We are looking for someone who is positive and a team player.

Aim and main purpose of the job (including but not limited to)

Supervise and provide particular support for pupils with special needs, ensuring their safety and access to learning activities.

Implement planned learning activities/teaching programmes as agreed with the teacher, adjusting activities according to pupils’ responses as appropriate.

Participate in planning and evaluation of learning activities with the teacher,

providing feedback to the teacher on pupil progress and behaviour.

Support special needs pupils in social and emotional well-being, reporting problems to the teacher as appropriate.

Assist in escorting and supervising pupils (or independently escort small groups) on educational visits and out of school activities

Attend to pupils’ personal needs and implement related personal programmes,

including social, medical needs, First Aid, physical, hygiene and welfare matters with appropriate training/support.

Please see the job description for further details

As part of the Inspiring Futures through Learning Multi Academy Trust, successful candidates will have full access to our staff benefits package, including a bespoke CPD package, enhanced Maternity/Paternity/Adoption Leave and Employee Assistance Programme. In addition, access to an Employee Benefits Scheme including discount on gym memberships, cinema tickets, retail discounts, cycle to work scheme and much more.

We invest heavily in professional development to enable our staff to flourish and to continually learn and develop. As part of the Inspiring Futures through Learning Multi Academy Trust, successful candidates will have full access to our staff benefits package including our Employee Assistance Programme, discount on gym membership, cinema tickets, cycle to work scheme and much more.

Our children and young people come from a wide range of backgrounds, and so do our colleagues. We aim to reflect and celebrate diversity in our workplace in order to create an inclusive culture that adds real value to our vision of inspiring the futures of us all through learning together.

Our commitment to ensuring equal opportunity and lifelong development is showcased in our 1:1 iPad initiative for learners and teaching colleagues across the schools in our trust. By harnessing the power of technology and collaboration, we aim to reshape and rethink what it means to be a learner into this digital age, and you can play a role in shaping our curriculum offer by joining us on this journey.

Inspiring Futures through Learning is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All employees are expected to share this commitment, to follow IFtL’s safeguarding policies and procedures, and to behave appropriately towards children at all times, both in work and in their personal lives.

All school-based posts are defined as Regulated Activity and therefore this post is subject to an Enhanced with Barred List Criminal Records Bureau check.

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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.