Teaching Assistant (Level 2) x2

Platt Bridge Community School, Wigan, Lancashire, WN2 5NG

16 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  7 February 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  20 January 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Early years, Key stage 1
• Working pattern: Part time: Contract Type: Permanent Contract Term: TTO Plus - Term time only plus weeks Hours per Week: 30.00 Weeks per Year: 39.000
• Contract type: Permanent
• Actual salary: Grade 3 - £24,027 - £24,790 (pro-rata)

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are seeking applications from exceptional individuals, with the highest aspirations and expectations for young people, to join our enthusiastic, dedicated and hardworking school team as a Teaching Assistant. Teaching Assistants are key positions within school, responsible for supporting the development of all pupils within their designated phase so that every child can leave school equipped for their next phase of education and to lead a happy and successful life.

Teaching Assistant work under the instruction/guidance of teaching/senior staff to undertake work/care/support/classroom administration, to enable access to learning for pupils and to assist the teacher in the management of pupils and the classroom. Work may be carried out in the classroom or outside the main teaching areas.

Successful candidates may be required to supervise groups of pupils undertaking activities in non-teaching situations, eg lunchtime for 30 minutes paid duty each day.

The desired candidate will be hardworking, honest, dependable and self-motivated in order to uphold the ethos, aims and values of our school.

We are looking for applicants with:-

• A L2 Teaching Assistant qualification as a minimum, with experience of working within a school;
• A willingness to work across the 2-11 primary range but initially roles are in Early Years;
• Effective communication skills and a commitment to acollaborative team approach;
• Excellent organisational skills;
• Energy, loyalty, passion and integrity;
• The desire and ability to provide a safe, caring, stimulating educational environment, both indoors and outdoors, at all times;
• An ambition to develop yourself through directed and self-directed CPD;
• High aspirations forall children, themselvesand a desire to raise standards;
• Experience of working with children of relevant age in a learning environment and with pupils with additional social and emotional needs.

For more information, please contact the school on 01942 487999.

What the school offers its staff

You’ll be joining a school team that offers:

• Pupils whose behaviour is excellent and who enjoy learning.
• An exciting and caring environment in which to work.
• A friendly and supportive staff who have high expectations of what can be achieved.
• An ambitious and supportive leadership team with a clear vision for the school.
• High quality support and professional opportunities.
• A Board of Trustees who are extremely supportive of the sole purpose to attain the highest standards in all areas.
• A genuine opportunity to make a difference.

Commitment to safeguarding

Community First Academy Trust are committed to rigorous safeguarding procedures and consistently promoting the welfare of children. All appointments will be subject to satisfactory Enhanced DBS Disclosures. Any offer of employment is subject to a satisfactory enhanced criminal record with barred list through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), medical clearance, references and verification of your qualifications satisfactory to the Trust.

Applying for the job

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About Platt Bridge Community School

• School type: Academy, ages 2 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 478 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Platt Bridge Community School website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: recruitment@atctrust.org.uk
• Phone number: 01942 487999
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/platt-bridge-community-school (opens in new tab)

Our school consists of like-minded individuals who focus relentlessly on their core purpose to advance education for public benefit.

Our charitable school trust has one single legal and moral purpose: to advance education in the public interest.

We believe that school trusts create the conditions for deep collaboration among teachers and leaders to improve the quality of education.

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