Teaching Assistant - Level 1
Heap Bridge Village Primary School, Bury, Lancashire, BL9 7JP14 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
27 February 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
12 February 2025
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: 30 hours per week Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £23,656 - £24,404
Actual salary
- £16,595 - £17,119
What skills and experience we're looking for
- To possess or be willing to work towards GCSE English and Maths or Level 2 Literacy and Numeracy
- To possess or be willing to work towards Level 2 QCF in Teaching and Learning
- To possess or be willing to work towards a full or emergency Paediatric First Aid certificate withing 3 months of starting work.
- Willingness to undertake appointed person certificate in first aid administration.
- Level 2 certificate Supporting the Wider Curriculum
- Ability to work effectively within a team environment, understanding classroom roles and responsibilities.
- Ability to build effective working relationships with all pupils and colleagues.
- Ability to promote a positive ethos and role model positive attributes.
- Good personal numeracy and literacy skills.
- Awareness and basic understanding of school curriculum.
- Basic awareness of inclusion, especially withing a school setting.
- Experience of working with and/or caring for children.
To work towards demonstrating:
- High expectation of all pupils; respect for their social, cultural, linguistic, religious and ethnic backgrounds; and commitment to raising their education achievements.
- Ability to build and maintain successful relationships with pupils, treat them consistently, with respect and consideration, and demonstrate concern for their development as learners.
- Demonstrate and promote the positive value, attitudes and behaviour you expect from the pupils with whom you work.
- Ability to liaise sensitively and effectively with parents and carers, recognising role in pupils’ learning.
- Ability to improve your own practice through observations, evaluation and discussion with colleagues.
- Understanding of basic technology – photocopier, use of computer i.e. Microsoft & Google environments/apps (TEAMs, Google Drive etc.)
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- Ability to attend occasions meetings out of school hours when required.
- Assisting pupils in line with moving and handling guidelines when toileting, feeding and transferring.
- Providing hygiene care to pupils
- Lifting and carrying equipment as required.
What the school offers its staff
At Heap Bridge Village Primary School, we aspire to ensure that each and every one of our pupils develops in to a positive, proactive learner who is proud of their achievements and well prepared for a successful life. Delivered through a vibrant curriculum, we believe that learning should be enjoyable, purposeful and challenging. We will equip pupils with the skills and dispositions they need for lifelong learning, teach them the importance of being proactive, taking ownership of their own futures and ensuring they develop the highest expectations for themselves in their pursuit of excellence. We will do this within a safe and supportive environment of mutual understanding, positive relationships, respect and tolerance. Regardless of any barriers to learning, we will ensure that we work in partnership with school stakeholders to ensure that every child in our school can be proud of what they achieve.
Values:
The core values and aims which underpin our vision for the school are:
- BE POSITIVE:To enable children to develop positive attitudes in life, developing independence and resilience. To respect individual differences, and to be sympathetic to the needs of others. To create a happy, safe and nurturing environment instilling the fundamental values of respect and tolerance.
- BE PROACTIVE:To ensure children develop intellectually, morally, socially, emotionally and physically in to well-rounded citizens and ready for the next stage of their life. To feel empowered in taking ownership of their own continuous learning.
- BE PROUD:To ensure everyone values their own achievements and feel a sense of pride in their continuous pursuit of excellence. To work in partnership with parents and other stakeholders in celebrating the strengths of the school (and school community) providing opportunities for children to fully develop their potential.
Further details about the role
To act as a responsible adult and assist with the supervision, personal care, welfare and keeping safe of individuals and/or groups of children and their environment under the direction/instruction of teaching and/or senior staff, inclusive of assisting with resources and basic classroom management techniques to support their learning.
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.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to applications@hltrust.co.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Heap Bridge Village Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 5 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- Up to 175 pupils
- Age range
- 5 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- hr@hltrust.co.uk
Arranging a visit to Heap Bridge Village Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@hltrust.co.uk.
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