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Teaching Assistant Level 2

Arboretum Primary School, Derby, Derbyshire, DE23 8GP

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• Job start date

  1 September 2024

• Closing date

  24 June 2024 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  11 June 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Full time: 35 hours per week
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Support Staff Band E pts 10-14

What skills and experience we're looking for

Is your passion supporting primary age children with varied ability levels? Are you looking for an exciting new role within a large, popular and thriving Inner City school? If so, and you can demonstrate that you are passionate about maximising our children’s learning potential, then this role could be for you.

This is an exciting role for the right person to join our large, friendly and incredibly dedicated team of teaching assistants, supporting teaching staff and pupils across our School. We require a qualified and experienced teaching assistant who ideally has recent experience within Early Years, KS1 and KS2 phases with a strong working knowledge of phase curriculums.

You will be assisting with supervision of the pupils in the classroom, in groups and 1:1 when required. You will ideally have experience of working with children with physical and educational difficulties. You will be able to demonstrate resilience and calm in stressful situations, focussing on solutions with patience, kindness and empathy. The successful candidate must hold an appropriate Level 3 qualification.

What the school offers its staff

We can offer you delightful children and a friendly and supportive staff.

You will receive regular CPD, and opportunities for further training.

Local Government Pension Scheme

Further details about the role

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare any cautions, convictions, reprimands and final warnings that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013 and 2020).

We warmly invite prospective candidates to visit the school to find out more about us and the role. To register your interest, call the school office on (01332) 291140 or email jobs@arboretum.derby.sch.uk . Please also take a few minutes to watch our school video on our Welcome page of our website www.arboretum.derby.sch.uk to get a true flavour of Arboretum Primary School.

For application details, please see attached, or go to Join Our Team on the About Us menu of our website at: www.arboretum.derby.sch.uk where you will find job details and application forms. Please complete both the DDAT Support Staff application form and the Monitoring form. Note that the correct forms must be completed, and that CVs or other methods of application will not be accepted.

Applications should be emailed to jobs@arboretum.derby.sch.uk

Commitment to safeguarding

DDAT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to satisfactory references, online checks, completion of a probationary period, pre-employment and Disclosure Barring Service checks. The possession of a criminal record will not necessarily prevent an applicant from obtaining this post, as all cases are judged individually according to the nature of the role and information provided.

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About Arboretum Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 2 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 640 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Arboretum Primary School website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: jobs@arboretum.derby.sch.uk
• Phone number: 01332291140
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/arboretum-primary-school (opens in new tab)

We are a large 635 place primary (which includes 20 children in our 2 year old unit and 78 in our 3 year old nursery), with a rich ethnic mix of delightful and well-behaved children. Our modern school has recently been refurbished and extensively extended and sits in large attractive grounds. We pride ourselves on our caring ethos and the value we place in our dedicated and friendly staff teams. We are a popular school, and have a waiting list for most year groups.

Arranging a visit to Arboretum Primary School

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