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Teaching Assistant - Maternity Cover

The Hill Primary Academy, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S63 0DS

This job expired on 6 October 2024 – see similar jobs

• Job start date

  4 November 2024

• Closing date

  6 October 2024 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  23 September 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time, full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £23,893.00 Annually (FTE) £18000 annual pro rata

Teaching Assistant - Maternity Cover job summary

About this Role

The Hill Primary Academy have an exciting opportunity for Teaching Assistant to join their team on a fixed term contract to cover Maternity. The role is 32.5 hours per week starting at 08:30 to 15:30 daily Monday to Friday during term time.

The Teaching Assistant will support the teacher and children to ensure that all children make excellent progress in all areas of learning from their starting points so they are ready for the next stage of their education.

This role will also include some working with a child on a 1:1 basis and a background in SEN would be helpful,

We are looking for individuals who are:

• Passionate about working with children and young people and as part of a successful team
• Committed to ensuring that each individual child is nurtured and developed to their full potential.
• An ambitious and enthusiastic professional willing to contribute to the wider life of the school
• to join a creative and progressive learning community that will invest in your future.

Our ideal candidate will be:

• Kind and caring towards all children
• Fun and likes to be provide a fun practice!
• Punctual and professional
• Able to use own initiative
• Willing to learn and invest time in self-development.

About us

The Hill primary academy is set in the heart of Thurnscoe between Barnsley and Rotherham. With over 400 pupils aged between 3 – 11 years

Astrea Academy Trust are fully committed to being diverse and inclusive workforce where together we can embrace each other’s unique individuality, background and heritage - we believe that by reflecting and representing the communities and people we serve, we will better and further the life chances of our pupils.

In return, we can offer you:

• A creative , happy and supportive working environment with a strong sense of team
• A school with ambitious culture built on shared values and high expectations
• An opportunity to become part of a school community where children are at the heart of all we do
• Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Continued professional development and training opportunities
• Free on-site parking.

Interested in applying?

If this is something, you are interested in take a look at the Applicant Brief to find out more about the role to apply.

Interviews will be on the 11th October 2024 and the role will start on the 4th November 2024

Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to satisfactory background checks including references and enhanced DBS checks.

To find out more about the school please also look at the information on the school website https://www.astreathehill.org

Commitment to safeguarding

Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and staff. Every child should feel safe and should be protected from any form of child abuse. We have robust policies and procedures that support our commitment to Safeguarding, this includes our Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy. The in-house Safeguarding teams at each Academy work in partnership with families and safeguarding partners to ensure the safety of children is paramount. We are committed to ensuring that all staff access regular, contextual safeguarding training to meet the needs of the local community.

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About The Hill Primary Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 384 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: The Hill Primary Academy website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-hill-primary-academy (opens in new tab)

The Hill Primary Academy aims to provide a curriculum that is broad, balanced, relevant and differentiated to provide for varied abilities. Barriers to learning are removed and we provide suitable learning challenges that respond to diverse needs. This encompasses a variety of exciting, first-hand experiences to enable children to acquire appropriate skills, knowledge and understanding preparing them for today’s world. Through the provision of a stimulating environment, children will develop to their full potential academically, socially and physically.

The framework for the children’s learning is provided by the National Curriculum which sets out the core subjects of Maths, English and Science along with ICT, PE, History, Geography, Design and Technology, Art, Music, Religious Education and MFL. We also teach Citizenship, Personal, Social and Health Education attaching great importance to the development of social skills. The curriculum encourages children to develop self-discipline and responsibility and to work collaboratively with others.

Great emphasis is placed on learning the basic skills of English, Communication and Maths. As well as teaching these lessons separately, we believe that a creative thematic curriculum where areas of learning are linked motivates children to learn more effectively and develop personal skills transferrable across lessons and useful in wider life.

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