Teaching Assistant Level 4 - temporary post
Prospect House Specialist Support Primary School, MANCHESTER, Greater Manchester, M9 8LT19 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
5 January 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
13 December 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Fixed term - One year
Full-time equivalent salary
- The starting pro-rata salary is £27,623 and the full time equivalent is £32,115
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 Prospect House Primary Specialist Support School.
The successful candidates should have suitable experience to be able to support children from EYFS to Year 6 (Ages 3 - 11).
This is a Grade 6, temporary position for 1 year, working 35 hours per week term time only plus 5 training days. The starting pro-rata salary is £27,623 and the full time equivalent is £32,115.
Main purpose of the job:
To complement the professional work of teachers by taking responsibility for agreed learning activities across school.This may involve planning, preparing and delivering learning programmes and support to individual students, small groups and on a short-term basis to whole classes. Under the guidance of a teacher, provide support in addressing the needs of pupils who require particular help to overcome barriers to learning.
Key responsibilities:
- The post holder will support and deliver teaching and learning across the school. The successful applicant must be able to work effectively with the whole school community including pupils, parents, governors and staff.
- 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.
- Contribute to whole school curriculum development and action planning in collaboration with the senior curriculum lead in school
- 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
Working for us
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
- We’re happy to talk flexible working where possible to help employees achieve a healthy work life balance.
The closing date for applications is Sunday 5th January 2025 and interviews will commence shortly after this date.
Applying to work for us
Applications will only be accepted on the TES application form and references will be applied for at the shortlisting stage.Applications may not be considered if they are incomplete, you must provide information on all employment since leaving full time education and an explanation for any gaps. We cannot accept CV's.We encourage early applications and reserve the right to close this vacancy before the planned closing date.
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.Whilst we offer flexibility where possible, we acknowledge that certain roles require a specific environment or on-site presence to meet operational requirements.
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 and disability confident 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.
If you would prefer to request an application pack by email or post, or should you require any additional support in completing your application, please feel free to contact us on 0161 527 7953 or via e-mail at jobs@prospere.org.uk
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
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About Prospect House Specialist Support Primary School
- School type
- Free School, ages 3 to 11
- School size
- 125 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- jobs@prospere.org.uk
Prospect House is a new free special primary school which opened temporarily on the Grange School site in September 2020. In June of 2022, the school community moved into the permanent school site in Higher Blackley North Manchester. The school is the first school in the Trust to be open north of the city offering places for children with very significant learning needs and other associated additional needs, aged 3 – 11 years old. The brand new purpose built site offers specialist facilities including a state-of-the-art hydropool including changing room to pool hoisting, ASC friendly classrooms and corridors, Food Technology Room, Library, Immersive Learning Room, Sensory Regulation Room, Parent Room, Pets as Therapy Dogs (Alfie and Ovie) and two KuneKune Pigs (Sebastian and Dolores).
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