Teaching Assistant Level 2 - Key Stage 4

Hilbre High School, Wirral, Merseyside, CH48 6EQ

Deadline is today

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  4 December 2023 at 9am

• Date listed

  21 November 2023

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: No, visa sponsorship not available
• Key stage: Key stage 4
• Working pattern:
  • Part time - 30 hours per week, 39 weeks per year Paid weeks per year 46.05 or 47.07
• Contract type: Permanent
• Actual salary: £17,584 to £17,973

What skills and experience we're looking for

Essential

• GCSE Maths and English Grade A*-C/9-4 or equivalent.

Desirable

• Level 2 Teaching Assistant qualification or equivalent, or relevant experience.

Essential

• Experience of working in a school environment or with young people.

Desirable

• Experience of working with students who have complex needs.

• Experience of supporting students with challenging behaviour.

Essential

• Proficient in the use of ICT.
• Ability to supervise and assist students.
• Knowledge of classroom roles and responsibilities.
• Display commitment to the protection and safeguarding of children and young people.

Desirable

• First aid qualification.
• Working knowledge of relevant policies/codes of practice and awareness of relevant legislation.

Essential

• Ability to work under pressure and determination to succeed.
• Have a patient and understanding attitude towards students with varying academic and emotional needs.
• Excellent communication skills.
• An ability to work as part of a team.
• Desire to involve themselves in the wider life of the school.
• Commitment to improvement and professional development.
• Patience, resilience and a sense of humour.

What the school offers its staff

In our most recent Ofsted inspection, in October 2021, we maintained our status as a ‘good’ school. We offer a friendly, supportive working environment, which values talented, committed staff and offers excellent professional development opportunities.

Commitment to safeguarding

Safeguarding requirements: Hilbre High School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. This role has been assessed as working in regulated activity and is subject to an Enhanced DBS plus Children’s Barred List Check. Any offer of employment will be subject to the receipt of a satisfactory Enhanced DBS disclosure with a child barred list check, receipt of references and successful completion of vetting procedures. It is an offence to apply for this role if candidates are barred from engaging in Regulated Activity relevant to children.

Applying for the job

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to schooloffice@hilbre.wirral.sch.uk

Skilled worker visa sponsorship is not available for this job.

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About Hilbre High School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1189 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Hilbre High School website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: schooloffice@hilbre.wirral.sch.uk
• Phone number: 0151 625 5996
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/hilbre-high-school (opens in new tab)

Hilbre is a hard-working, lively academy where we believe that learning is an enjoyable and rewarding experience for all our students. We pride ourselves in recognising the varied and individual needs of our students and the broad, balanced education we provide, both in and outside the classroom, ensures our students can leave school with the skills, knowledge and understanding necessary to contribute confidently in today’s ever changing world. At Hilbre High School Humanities College, you will find an 11-18 academy with just over one thousand students on roll. We are an academy which genuinely welcomes people into a partnership with a shared aim; to achieve the most we possibly can, both academically and socially for our students. We believe in success, progress, challenge and the enjoyment of learning and we constantly strive to ensure that all students achieve their very best. Indeed, our pledge is to ensure that every student, whatever their starting point, makes rapid and sustained progress through effective, high quality teaching, in order to achieve the best outcomes within a caring and supportive environment. Our academy has the advantage of being coeducational. This enables us to deliver the full range of curriculum opportunities within a more natural and rounded environment for the social development of our students.

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