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Teaching Assistant Level 1

Woodlands Secondary School, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU3 3SP

This job expired on 5 June 2024 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  ASAP or September 2024

• Closing date

  5 June 2024 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  16 May 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £17,863.00 - £18,260.00 Annually (Actual) Term time plus inset days (39 weeks per year)

Teaching Assistant Level 1 job summary

Our Teaching Assistants (TAs) play a vital role working alongside our class teachers to support our amazing students to fulfil their potential and to develop their independence skills.

Staff may work with individual students or small groups to assist them to access our broad balanced, fun, relevant and functional curriculum. Our students have a range of learning difficulties and needs, including some physical or sensory needs and sometimes students present with some challenging behaviours.

Promoting good communication skills is a key element of the role; good spoken and written English skills are essential.

Some of our students require additional support and assistance; this may mean assisting students with personal care, helping to implement physiotherapy programmes or supporting students to understand and regulate their emotions and behaviours.

TAs supervise the students at lunch time and break times and play a key role in ensuring that the students are safeguarded and their welfare promoted.

Working in a special school is a unique and privileged opportunity for the right person. We advise interested parties to ensure they have looked at the school website and our Facebook page, in order to get a flavour of our school. (FB page - Official Woodlands Secondary School)

Application form

When completing the letter of application, please ensure you address all the points in the essential column on the person specification. To help we have included some questions which should be answered to show your understanding and your experience in the highlighted areas.

Please DO NOT USE AI (Artificial Intelligence) to generate your answers.

Closing Date

The closing date for applications is Wednesday 5th June 2024

Interviews

We will invite successful candidates into school to spend a day in classes as part of the interview process.

These visits will take place on the week beginning 10th June 2024

Interviews will take place on Friday 14th June 2024

At Woodlands School we are committed to safeguarding our students and promoting their welfare.

Because of the nature of this job, it will be necessary for an enhanced DBS check to be undertaken. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare all unspent cautions and convictions; and also any adult cautions (simple or conditional), and spent convictions that are not protected as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020). A person’s criminal record will not in itself prevent a person from being appointed to this post. Applicants will not be refused posts because of offences which are not relevant to, and do not place them at or make them a risk in, the role for which they are applying. However in the event of the employment being taken up, any failure to disclose such offence, as detailed above, will result in dismissal or disciplinary action by the Authority.

IT IS AN OFFENCE TO APPLY FOR A ROLE WORKING IN REGULATED ACTIVITY IF YOU ARE BARRED FROM WORKING WITH CHILDREN

PLEASE REFER TO ATTACHED POLICIES - Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy - Recruitment of Ex-Offenders Policy

Commitment to safeguarding

Woodlands Secondary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all its children.

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About Woodlands Secondary School

• School type: Special school, ages 11 to 18
• School size: 262 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Woodlands Secondary School website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/woodlands-secondary-school (opens in new tab)

Woodlands is a large secondary special school located in the north of Luton. Our mission statement is to 'Empower our young people to become successful adults.'

Our students have severe or profound learning difficulties, some have additional learning needs.

We have developed and refined our ambitious curriculum offer to meet the needs of the different cohorts of learners to ensure that learning is interesting, relevant and functional.

We have great facilities on site and aim to enrich learning by accessing the community and applying learning beyond the classroom.

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