Teaching Assistant Level 1 (Fixed term until 31 August 2025)
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy, Pudsey, West Yorkshire, LS28 7AZ9 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
9 December 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
27 November 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £24,027.00 - £25,183.00 Annually (FTE) Actual Salary £17,027 - £17,847 per annum
Teaching Assistant Level 1 (Fixed term until 31 August 2025) job summary
- Fixed Term until 31 August 2025
- Part Time, Term Time Only
- Monday to Friday, 31.25 hours Teaching Assistant including Lunchtime Cover
- Salary NJC Grade A1/B1, Scale Points 3-6, £24,027- £25,183 per annum
- Actual Salary £17,027 - £17,847 per annum
The Governors are looking for three highly motivated and inspirational Teaching Assistants to join our Catholic primary school at St Joseph’s Catholic Voluntary Academy Pudsey. We are looking for candidates who can motivate and inspire pupils in their learning and behaviour, with the expectation that you will support children on a 1:1 basis. We would particularly welcome applications from applicants who have experience of working with EYFS.
Experience of working with children with SEMH needs or as a 1:1 support worker is desirable but not essential.
We are looking for someone who:
- Is warm, friendly, and empathetic
- Has excellent English, maths and communication skills
- Understands how individual children learn to ensure rapid progress
- Is committed to high standards of attainment and behaviour
- Works effectively as part of a skilled team including outside agencies
- Someone who may want to develop skills necessary to enter into initial teacher training
- Is a practising Catholic or supportive of the Catholic ethos of the school
What we can offer you:
- A professional team of hardworking and supportive staff and senior leadership team
- Well behaved, caring children
- Strong and effective links with parents/carers and the local community
- Excellent links with Pudsey Children Services
- Support via the BWCAT learning mentor group
- A well set up bank of resources to support workload
- Employee discount scheme (offering cycle to work scheme, gym membership, money saving offers across hundreds of the UK’s favourite high-street and online retailers, home and electrical items)
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (Education Support)
- Generous pension contribution managed by the West Yorkshire Pension Fund
- A supportive organisation with the commitment to professional development and wellbeing
Visits to St Joseph’s Pudsey are warmly welcomed; please contact Lisa Beekharry, Office Manager on 0113 256 5407 to make an appointment.
The Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy for applications or withdraw the vacancy at any time at its absolute discretion.
Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to a satisfactory DBS enhanced disclosure certificate.
In line with KCSiE 2024, we will carry out an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted candidates. This may help identify any matters that are publicly available online, which we might want to explore with you at interview.
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
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy
- School type
- Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 326 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
School location
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