Teaching Assistant Level 1 (suitable candidate may be appointed TA2 in BASE)
Woodlands Secondary School, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU3 3SP15 days remaining to apply
Start date details
March 2025
Closing date
20 January 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
2 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £18,549.00 - £20,284.00 Annually (Actual)
Teaching Assistant Level 1 (suitable candidate may be appointed TA2 in BASE) 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 people. We advise interested parties to ensure they have looked at the school website and our Facebook Page - Official Woodlands Secondary School, in order to get a flavour of our school.
Benefits of working at Woodlands Secondary School
An extensive induction training programme over a 12 month period. The training programme covers: safeguarding
Free access to Employee Assistance provided by Spectrum - this is confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days per week
Enhanced pension, employers’ contribution and death in service payment
Opportunities to progress and develop your career
Free tea and coffee
Access to our on site cafe 3 days per week - sit in or take away, Loyalty cards available.
Opportunity to be entered into a half termly draw to win a cafe voucher - based on good attendance
Access to onsite gym
Discounted membership rates at Active Luton
Free eye tests and contribution towards glasses (for those who work on computers)
Application form
When completing the letter of application, please ensure you address all the points in the essential column on the person specification when answering the questions. Please do not use the assistance of AI (artificial intelligence) to generate your answers. Please refer to your own understanding and experiences to answer the questions.
Closing Date
The closing date for applications is 20th January 2025
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 prior to face to face interviews in the week beginning 20th July. Interviews will be on Monday 27th January 2025.
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment.
Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
This post meets the definition of ‘Regulated Activity’ as defined in the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (as amended).
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.
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 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)
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.
School location
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