Teaching Assistant Level 2

Lime Academy Watergall, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE3 8NX

16 days remaining to apply

Closing date
30 November 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
6 November 2024

Job details

Job role: Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
Subjects: Teaching Assistant, Learning Support Assistant
Working pattern: Part time
Contract type: Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary: £23,893.00 - £25,119.00 Annually (FTE) NJC Points 6 -9, 32.5 hours per week, 39 weeks (term time plus 1 week inset)

Teaching Assistant Level 2 job summary

Lime Trust is a Multi Academy Trust formed of 8 schools over 10 locations across Peterborough and the London Boroughs of Havering and Waltham Forest. We have grown to include four primary schools and four all-through special schools, with 2400 pupils and over 700 employees. In our academies we strive to ensure that:

- Learners are safe and enjoy learning

- Everyone feels included, respected, and valued

- An ambitious curriculum develops our learners for the challenges of life and adulthood

- Employee potential is recognised and invested in

The Trust’s vision is to provide high quality education for pupils through school-to-school collaboration, Trust direction, high challenge and high support. Our values of Respect, Equity, Self-worth, Partnership, Enjoyment, Communication and Trust are core to all we do.

We passionately believe in promoting the well-being of our teams and have a wide range of benefits and systems to support our staff, you can read more about this in the attached recruitment brochure.

Overview of the role:

We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic and highly motivated individual who is an ambitious passionate professional. You should be somebody who can add value to our school in striving to help deliver personalised learning that prepares our learners for the next stage in their life, and you must be able to:

- - Work under the direction of the class teacher to support learners with a range of complex physical, medical and learning needs to access learning by implementing activities and interventions designed to meet their personal needs

- - Manage behaviour in line with school policy

- - Provide general support to the class teacher in the management and organisation of the classroom

- - Assist the teacher in creating and maintaining a purposeful, orderly and supportive learning environment

- - Promote the inclusion of all learners, ensuring they have equal opportunities to learn and develop

- - Build and maintain successful relationships with learners, treating them with respect and consideration

- - Work together with families and other agencies to ensure every learner is valued, challenged and supported

- - Have the highest expectation that every learner will make sustained academic and personal progress

- - Be responsible for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people within the school

The postholder will be part of our school support function and play a large part in delivering a high-quality education to the learners who attend our schools.

Applications will be reviewed as they are submitted, therefore you may be invited for interview before the closing date.

Visits to our schools are warmly welcomed. Please contact the school office on office.watergall@limetrust.org to discuss the role further or to arrange a visit.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Applicants must be willing to undergo Child Protection screening, including checks with past employers and an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS check). References will be taken up before

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.