Teaching Assistant Level 4 - SEND Specialist
Manchester Enterprise Academy, Wythenshawe, Greater Manchester, M22 9RHThis job expired on 8 December 2023 – see similar jobs
Start date details
Once all pre-employment checks are completed
Closing date
8 December 2023 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
28 November 2023
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern
- Full time: Permanent post working 35 hours per week (8:30am-4:10pm) term time only plus 5 INSET days
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Starting pro-rata salary is £23,114 and full time equivalent salary is £26,873
Pay scale
- Grade 5
What skills and experience we're looking for
We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Teaching Assistant Level 4 to join our fantastic team at Manchester Enterprise Academy. The role is to work within the Engage department which provides additional support for pupils who have SEND or who require support that is in additional to the core school offer. You will be required to work in collaboration with the SENCO and wider Engage team to ensure appropriate provision is in place for identified pupils. The successful candidates will be the main lead for a base where you will organise the delivery of teacher planned programmes of work or the delivery of individual or bespoke planning for pupils who access the base. The role includes working with individuals/small groups of pupils on agreed interventions. The ability to develop productive working relationships with pupils, families and the wider school community is essential.
This is a Grade 5, permanent post working 35 hours per week (8:30am-4:10pm) term time only plus 5 INSET days. The starting pro-rata salary is £23,114, full time equivalent salary is £26,873.
Main purpose of the job:
- To complement the professional work of teachers by taking responsibility for agreed learning activities. This may involve planning, preparing and delivering learning programmes and support to individual pupils, small groups and on a short-term basis to whole classes.
- Responsibility for the management and development of a specialist area in school or across a department, and/or leading and deploying teaching assistants in addressing the needs of pupils who require help to overcome barriers to learning.
Key relationships:
- Work in collaboration with teaching colleagues to co-ordinate and plan schemes of work to be used by teaching assistants undertaking specified teaching work.
- Contribute to Senior Management Team or Departmental Management Team.
- Line management, supervision of support staff, including implementation of performance management procedures.
What the school offers its staff
Great schools thrive because of the great people in them.
We pride ourselves in being a great place to work, providing a supportive culture with opportunities to grow and develop your career, achieve a healthy work life balance and to be recognised for the great work you do. All schools in the Trust have signed up to the education staff wellbeing charter as a declaration of support to the wellbeing and mental health of everyone that works at Prospere Learning Trust.
Prospere Learning Trust offers a variety of employee benefits, including;
a commitment to continuous professional development for all colleagues
membership of Bupa Level 1 Health Plan which allows employees to claim money back for a range of health expenses such as prescriptions and dental treatments
access to counselling, financial, legal and personal advice provided through either our free Bupa or Health Assured Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) including confidential 24-hour support
access to Cyclescheme
Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) contributions and Teacher Pension Scheme (TPS) contributions
a range of policies which demonstrate our respect for your time and priorities outside work, including flexible working
Further details about the role
Applying to work for us
Please note that guidance in Keeping Children Safe in Education 2022 requires us to carry out an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted candidates. This to enable us to identify any incidents or issues which have happened and are publicly available online which we might want to explore at interview. Once shortlisting has taken place, this search will be carried out for all candidates who will attend an interview.
All applicants must be permitted to work in the UK and hold a relevant work permit where necessary. This is not a role in which the Trust sponsors a visa application. If you have lived or worked outside of the UK in the last 5 years, the Trust will also require additional information in order to comply with safer recruitment requirements. Any job offer will be conditional on the satisfactory completion of the necessary pre-employment checks including receipt of satisfactory references.
Safeguarding Children
All schools within the Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.
Equality Statement
At Prospere Learning Trust we are committed to creating a community of belonging. This means we continually celebrate the diverse communities within our schools and the communities we serve. As an equal opportunity employer, we positively welcome applications from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.
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.
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About Manchester Enterprise Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1247 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Manchester Enterprise Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- jobs@prospere.org.uk
Manchester Enterprise Academy (MEA) opened in 2009 and is proud to be part of the Prospere Learning Trust.
Our campus now has two teaching buildings, which incorporate a Theatre, Art, Fashion and Dance studios and new Science laboratories. There is also a new £1million multi-sport facility which includes a full-size 3G rugby and football pitch and other redeveloped sports facilities. We also have a new cafe and dining facilities, two Food Technology rooms and recently refurbished ICT, Business and Modern Foreign Language classrooms.
In order to deliver our vision of a fantastic future for all our students, it is important that they achieve the best academic results possible. Our vision of a “Fantastic Future for All Our Students” is easy to understand, but complex to achieve, as the future evolves so rapidly around us. Students have to adapt in order to build themselves a secure and resilient future. We focus relentlessly on the MEA Way, of Safe, Respectful and Ready. The business partners who lead the Trust help us to complement academic achievement with the other skills that employers demand of their staff. Enterprising, entrepreneurial and networking skills, team working, presenting information and project management are all part of our Fantastic Futures curriculum and, allied to our Pastoral Pledges and aligned to our outstanding Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural (SMSC) provision.
We work incredibly hard to attract the best teachers and our teacher training provision is graded outstanding by Manchester University. We believe that our teachers’ expertise needs to inspire our students by allowing them to shape and craft exciting learning experiences. Our teaching model emphasises excellent classroom dynamics between staff and students. Exams are a serious business, learning is an emotional journey – students who enjoy learning perform far better than those who are uninspired.
Beyond the classroom, as well as having a range of sports teams and experiences, we expect our students to take part in at least two enrichment activities per week. We offer break and after school clubs linked to our curriculum area and there is something for everyone on each day. We also open from 7.45 for Breakfast Club offering a longer school day and flexibility for all families.
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