Teaching Assistant - LKS2 - fixed term 1 year contract
Edith Moorhouse Primary School, Carterton, Oxfordshire, OX18 3HP9 days remaining to apply
Start date details
25th November 2024 - or sooner if available
Closing date
17 October 2024 at 10am
Date listed
4 October 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £14,404.20 - £14,644.75 Annually (Actual)
Teaching Assistant - LKS2 - fixed term 1 year contract job summary
Teaching Assistant :
Grade 4 (from £11.98 per hour)
Monday to Friday 8.45am to 3.00pm - 27.5 hours per week, term-time only
This role is fixed term for 1 year until 31st August 2025
Edith Moorhouse primary school in Carterton serves a wonderful and supportive community, consisting of service and non-service families. We can offer you a school that continually seeks new ways to improve the delivery of the curriculum. Reach for the stars is the school motto which represents the heart of the school and our desire to always demonstrate aspiration and resilience.
Duties of the role will include:
- Supervise and provide particular support for pupils, including those with special needs, ensuring their safety and access to learning activities
- Assist with the development and implementation of Individual Education/Behaviour Plans and personal care programmes
- Establish constructive relationships with pupils, parents/carers, promoting inclusion and acceptance.
- Encourage pupils to interact with others and engage in activities led by the teacher
- Provide feedback to pupils in relation to progress and achievement under guidance of the teacher
- Create and maintain a purposeful, orderly and supportive environment, in accordance with lesson plans
- Assist with the planning of learning activities and use strategies, in liaison with the teacher, to support pupils to achieve learning objectives
- Monitor pupils’ responses to learning activities and accurately record achievement/progress as directed
- Promote good pupil behaviour, dealing promptly with conflict and incidents in line with established policy and encourage pupils to take responsibility for their own behaviour
- Support the use of ICT in learning activities and develop pupils’ competence and independence in its use
- Prepare, maintain and use equipment/resources required to meet the lesson plans/relevant learning activity and assist pupils in their use.
- Be aware of and comply with policies and procedures relating to child protection, health, safety and security, confidentiality and data protection, reporting all concerns to an appropriate person
- Contribute to the overall ethos/work/aims of the school and attend and participate in relevant meetings as required.
- Participate in training and other learning activities and performance development as required.
- Accompany teaching staff and pupils on visits, trips and out of school activities as required and take responsibility for a group under the supervision of the teacher
- Half an hour lunch cover to be provided within the contract
Experience
- Working with or caring for children of relevant age
- Working with children with SEND preferable
Qualifications
Good mathematical and English communication skills
At least NVQ 2 for Teaching Assistants or equivalent qualifications or experience desirable
Training in the relevant learning strategies e.g. literacy
First aid training/training as appropriate
Knowledge & Skills
Effective use of ICT to support learning
Understanding of relevant policies/codes of practice and awareness of relevant legislation
General understanding of national/EYFS curriculum and other basic learning programmes/strategies
Basic understanding of child development and learning
Previous work with SEN children desirable
Ability to self-evaluate learning needs and actively seek learning opportunities
Ability to relate well to children and adults
Work constructively as part of a team, understanding classroom roles and responsibilities and your own position within these
Education has the power to change lives, communities and society for the better. At RLT we believe that we can achieve more for our pupils, trainees, staff and communities by working together rather than alone. Schools in RLT are united by a common belief in the benefits of working together, and by our commitment to shared principles.
OUR VISION is for our schools and SCITT to improve rapidly, continuously and sustainably: to be better faster together.
OUR ‘WHY?’ is that children and young people ‘only get one go’ in school and therefore as part of RLT we aim to ensure the best possible ‘go’ for our pupils.
OUR ‘HOW?’ is through the highest support and challenge for our schools and each other, underpinned by our principles.
Our employees benefit from a wide variety of support including extensive continuing professional learning and development opportunities, wellbeing and staff networks and access to Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (TPS and LGPS) for all staff. For more information on what it is like to work for the Trust, and the benefits you could access, please see our “Working in RLT” guide.
This role includes regulated activity relevant to children.
The school reserves the right to consider and interview candidates ahead of the closing date if appropriate. An offer may be made to an exceptional candidate in this instance.
The River Learning Trust and Edith Moorhouse Primary School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. The Trust is required to conduct a variety of checks and online searches about you as part of their recruitment process in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. It is an offence to apply for certain roles within schools if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
For all RLT Safer Recruitment Documentation candidates should click on the following link RLT Safer Recruitment Documents for Candidates. Please see our website for up to date policies including our Child Protection and Behaviour Policies.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. For further guidance for applicants click on this link List of offences that are not filtered
Commitment to safeguarding
The River Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. All staff must ensure that the highest priority is given to following the guidance and regulations to safeguard children and young people. The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check. Employment will also be conditional on the receipt of at least two acceptable references (one from current/latest employer) and evidence of the formal qualifications required for the role.
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.
About Edith Moorhouse Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- View all Primaryjobs
- School size
- 355 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
We are a popular primary school in the Oxfordshire town of Carterton, close to RAF Brize Norton. Visitors to our school often comment on the calm and friendly atmosphere, and our children are happy and enjoy their learning. As a school we have worked really hard over the past few years to build a strong and committed team with the capacity to improve the outcomes for our pupils. We are proud to be an academy as part of The River Learning Trust. We feel very strongly that our school team, along with the wider family of the River Learning Trust, is what makes our school successful.
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