Teaching Assistant Level 3 Foundation Stage

Watercliffe Meadow Community Primary School, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S5 7HL

8 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  6 January 2025

• Closing date

  4 December 2024 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  25 November 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Early years
• Working pattern: Part time (Can be done as a job share): 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 39 weeks per year. We will consider applicants who wish to job share this role, providing suitable job share partners can be found within the recruitment process. This would involve working between two and a half days to three days per week, starting at 8.30am and working to at least 3.30pm. If you wish to discuss this further, please get in touch.
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £25584 - £27,711

What skills and experience we're looking for

Candidates should have:

• completed the Level 3 qualification or equivalent
• the ability to engage, inspire, motivate and build excellent relationships with children and staff
• good communication and organisational skills
• resilience, dedication and the ability to be pro-active and use your initiative
• supported SEN children in the primary sector
• experience working with, planning and teaching children in 1:1 and small group situations
• relevant training such as – SCERTS, attention autism, PECs, curiosity boxes, Team Teach (desirable but not essential)

What the school offers its staff

An exciting opportunity has arisen to appoint a Level 3 Teaching Assistant from January 2025 to join our successful, innovative and inclusive school. Watercliffe Meadow was judged as a “good” school with “outstanding features” by Ofsted in February 2020.

We are seeking to permanently appoint an experienced Level 3 Teaching Assistant to join our enthusiastic team to work in our Foundation Stage, to work with happy, motivated children and families who want to learn at Watercliffe Meadow.

Flexible working opportunities

We will consider applicants who wish to job share this role, providing suitable job share partners can be found within the recruitment process. This would involve working between two and a half days to three days per week, starting at 8.30am and working to at least 3.30pm. If you wish to discuss this further, please get in touch.

Further details about the role

We value our diverse workforce and aim to work together to make the most of our differences. We welcome applications from everyone. Watercliffe Meadow is located within the Burngreave Ward of Sheffield. We support an inclusive culture and diversity for our staff and students. We are committed to encouraging further growth from diverse groups. We currently have an under representation from BAME. As such, we particularly welcome applicants from this group.

Applications will be considered as they are received and we therefore urge candidates to submit an application as soon as possible. We reserve the right to close this vacancy before the specified closing date.

Commitment to safeguarding

Watercliffe Meadow is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety of children and young people and expects all staff to share in this commitment. We are an equal opportunities employer. The successful candidate will be required to complete an enhanced DBS prior to employment commencing.
Online checks will be carried out on all shortlisted candidates.

Applying for the job

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to rstone@watercliffe.sheffield.sch.uk

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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

Upload additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

TA L3 Recruitment Pack Dec 24.pdf - 730 KB (opens in new tab)

About Watercliffe Meadow Community Primary School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 497 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Watercliffe Meadow Community Primary School website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: rstone@watercliffe.sheffield.sch.uk
• Phone number: 0114 232 6603
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/watercliffe-meadow-community-primary-school (opens in new tab)

Watercliffe Meadow is an over-subscribed two form entry primary school with nursery, with 500 pupils on roll. Although we are a relatively large primary, many people refer to us as a big happy family.

Watercliffe Meadow opened in 2008, after the closure of Watermead and Busk Meadow infants and Shirecliffe Junior School. We have many long serving members of staff, with a third of them being with us from our first day of opening after having worked at the three schools that closed.

Our Headteacher is highly respected in Sheffield for his work with Learn Sheffield and the Local Authority and is supported by our Head of School, who has taught in Shirecliffe for over 28 years. They both were instrumental in the opening of Watercliffe Meadow.

We are very lucky to have a modern and well-resourced building with two MUGAs, a playing field/running track and two staff car parks. Unlike many schools, we have our own employed catering team.

We are proud to be a local authority maintained school with a supportive governing body.

Arranging a visit to Watercliffe Meadow Community Primary School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email rstone@watercliffe.sheffield.sch.uk.

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