45 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    TBC

  • Closing date

    5 January 2025 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    23 October 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

£30,033.00 - £31,926.00 Annually (FTE) NJC Points 12-16, 32.5 hours per week, 39 weeks (term time only, plus 1 week inset)

Teaching Assistant Level 3 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 to work with the teaching and learning team and the Senior Leadership Team to support our learners, promote best practice, and contribute to the aims and ethos of the Trust and its schools.

Candidates should be ambitious and passionate professionals, who will add value to our school in striving to help deliver personalised learning that prepares our learners for the next stage in their life, and who can:

- - Lead the class in the absence of the class teacher for short periods

- - 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

- - Provide expertise to deliver a personalised curriculum for each learner’s learning

- - 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 successful candidate will be responsible for creating a positive and safe learning environment to nurture learners’ development. Our aim is to provide our learners with the best possible opportunities to succeed with future goals and aspirations in all areas of their life including social, emotional, physical and communication. We strive to ensure our learners reach their full potential to allow them to actively participate in the wider community and to prepare them for adult life.

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

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

Applications will be reviewed as submitted and candidates could be called for interview prior to the closing date.

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 appointment.

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.

CVs are not accepted.

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About Lime Academy Forest Approach

School type
Academy, ages 2 to 19
School size
129 pupils enrolled
Age range
2 to 19

School location

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