14 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    ASAP

  • Closing date

    29 January 2025 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    14 January 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Teaching assistant

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Early years

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Fixed term

Full-time equivalent salary

18,495.11 - 20,027.12

Teaching Assistant Level 2 job summary

Prestolee Multi Academy Trust are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and effective Teaching Assistant Level 2 to join our team at Bowness Primary School. The ideal candidate will have demonstratable experience working as a Teaching Assistant, have knowledge and experience in SEN and the intimate care needs of children with SEN. They will also hold a relevant Teaching Assistant Level 2 qualification.


Who We Are

As a group of schools, Prestolee Trust has a shared vision. We act as one organisation and bring context to individual needs. Our schools are geographically close and yet serve diverse communities. The vision describes the future that speaks to that community.

 

The vision for Prestolee Multi Academy Trust is that our children are prepared for the next stage of education and life in modern Britain. This means children have access to a broad rich curriculum offer with a wide range of activities. We believe in an inherently strong core of English and Mathematics, together with strong specific academic foundation subjects focused on knowledge and skills.

 

We strive for excellence in quality first teaching. Career progression opportunities and development of knowledge and skills through CPD, networks and other professional programmes and training are key to our success. Our trust is relentlessly focused on improvement; in self, in others and in the organisation.

 

About You

 We are looking for a person who has: 

  • Proven outstanding experience/teaching practice as a Teaching Assistant Level 2
  • Excellent literacy, numeracy, and ICT skills 
  • Excellent skills in team working 
  • Excellent skills in working with children, particularly with SEN requirements
  • Experience in PMLD, moving/handling and intimate care needs of children with SEN 
  • Commitment, flexibility, and enthusiasm 
  • A desire for career development 
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills 


Our Offer 

  • A dynamic and developing Multi Academy Trust of schools with a SCITT for career development in teaching and learning. 
  • Opportunities across the Trust to widen skills, experience, and professional development in a variety of settings
  • Welcome, friendly, and inclusive schools within the Trust 
  • A committed Trust and School leadership and committed multi school teams
  • Well-motivated pupils 
  • A Trust committed to staff wellbeing and career development for all 

 

Closing date: Wednesday 29th January 2025 at 12pm

Interview/observation: week commencing 3rd February 2025

Start date: Monday 24th February 2025


This Trust is committed to safer recruitment practice and pre-employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. This post is subject to an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Services and a statutory Pre-Employment Health Check. 


This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. 

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.

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About Bowness Primary School

School type
Academy, ages 3 to 11
Education phase
Primary
School size
132 pupils enrolled
Age range
3 to 11

School location

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