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Teaching Assistant Level 1

CHS South, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M21 7SX

This job expired on 16 April 2023 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  16 April 2023 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  27 March 2023

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
• Working pattern: Full time: Full Time, Permanent
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: Grade 2

What skills and experience we're looking for

We currently have an exciting opportunity for Teaching Assistant Level 1 to join our fantastic team at CHS South starting as soon as possible.

This is a Grade 2, permanent post working 30 hours per week term time only plus 5 INSET days. The starting pro-rata salary is £15,153. The full time equivalent is £20,623.

Main purpose of the job:

To support access to learning and provide general support for the school in the management of pupils and resources, as directed by senior staff.

To work collaboratively with all staff and parents in order to support pupil wellbeing and to promote the five outcomes of Every Child Matters

Key relationships:

All members of staff (Teaching, Safeguarding team, Pastoral team, SENCO, SLT), students, governors, and parents.

The application closing date is Sunday 16th April 2023 with interviews to take place thereafter.

Applying to work for us

Applications will only be accepted on the TES application form and references will be applied for at the shortlisting stage.Applications may not be considered if they are incomplete. We cannot accept CV's.We encourage early applications, please note that interviews may be held at any stage after applications are received and we reserve the right to close the vacancy before the specified closing date if we receive a high volume of suitable applicants.

Safeguarding Children

All schools within the Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.

What the school offers its staff

About CHS South

CHS South, a Prospere Learning Trust school, is an 11-16 eight-form entry, mixed, comprehensive school opened in conjunction with Chorlton High School. Our school provides a full capacity of 1200 in our brand new building which opened in September 2021.

Our school intent:

CREATIVE:An education where imagination, curiosity and resilience enable us to ignite our learning.

HAPPY:A shared belief that optimism, empathy and responsibility are the foundations for a respectful, safe and inclusive community.

SUCCESSFUL:Individuals who are ready to learn, practise being reflective, and are motivated to become champions.

Please follow this link to see information about our school and site:https://www.chssouth.org.uk/about-us/location-and-facilities. Further information about our school and our offer can also be found in the candidate brochure below.

Working for us:

Great schools thrive because of the great people in them.

Prospere Learning Trust offers a variety of employee benefits, including;

• a commitment to continuous professional development for all colleagues
• membership to Bupa Level 1 Health Plan which allows employees to claim money back for a range of health expenses such as prescriptions and dental treatments
• access to counselling, financial, legal and personal advice provided through either our free Bupa or Health Assured Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) including confidential 24 hour support
• Cyclescheme access
• Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) contributions and Teacher Pension Scheme (TPS) contributions

Equality Statement

At Prospere Learning Trust we are committed to creating a community of belonging. This means we continually celebrate the diverse communities within our schools and the communities we serve. As an equal opportunity employer, we positively welcome applications from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.

Further details about the role

Please note that new guidance in Keeping Children Safe in Education 2022 requires us to carry out an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted candidates. This to enable us to identify any incidents or issues which have happened and are publicly available online which we might want to explore at interview. Once shortlisting has taken place, this search will be carried out for all candidates who will attend an interview.

All applicants must be permitted to work in the UK and hold a relevant work permit where necessary. This is not a role in which the Trust sponsors a visa application.Unless applicants make clear on their application form that they have the right to work in the UK by responding to the relevant question and providing their National Insurance Number, we are unable to consider their application and, due to the high volume of applications, may be unable to enter into correspondence with them. We expect applicants to provide this confirmation in order for their application to be considered, otherwise they will not be eligible for the vacancy. If you have lived or worked outside of the UK in the last 5 years, the Trust will also require additional information in order to comply with safer recruitment requirements. Any job offer will be conditional on the satisfactory completion of the necessary pre-employment checks and receipt of satisfactory references.

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.

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About CHS South

• School type: Free School, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1024 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: CHS South website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: jobs@prospere.org.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/chs-south (opens in new tab)

Welcome to CHS South, our new 11-16 eight-form entry, mixed, comprehensive school opened in conjunction with Chorlton High School. Our school provides a full capacity of 1200 in our brand new building which opened in September 2021. Please follow this link to see information about our school and site: https://www.chssouth.org.uk/about-us/location-and-facilities

CHS South was opened in September 2018 to allow more young people in our community to access the successful model developed at our oversubscribed sister school, Chorlton High School. This model ensures we provide an education built on the values of offering every young person we encounter the skills needed to craft a creative, happy & successful future. These values are articulated in our school intent below:

CREATIVE: An education where imagination, curiosity and resilience enable us to ignite our learning.

HAPPY: A shared belief that optimism, empathy and responsibility are the foundations for a respectful, safe and inclusive community.

SUCCESSFUL: Individuals who are ready to learn, practise being reflective, and are motivated to become champions.

We also ensure the young people at CHS South have access to a broad and forward thinking enrichment curriculum. We are well positioned to offer a diverse and engaging sports curriculum through our fantastic relationships with the vast array of sports providers in our community. Furthermore our expertise and understanding of the creative arts, an industry growing faster in our local community than anywhere in the UK outside London, ensures our young people are provided with the opportunities to develop and hone their skills in order to become the next generation of creative trailblazers.

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