Teaching Assistant
Meopham School, Gravesend, Kent, DA13 0AHThis job expired on 1 November 2021 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 December 2021
Closing date
1 November 2021 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
14 October 2021
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 30 hours a week, Term Time only
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £18,338 (SAT 3)
Actual salary
- £12,460 pro rata
Teaching Assistant job summary
Permanent, Term time position.
30 hours per week.
We are currently looking for a Teaching Assistant to work in our dynamic SEN department. As a Teaching Assistant, you will be supporting our pupils, with SEN, both inside and outside of the classroom, to support their progress and exceed their potential. You will work closely with class teachers and our Operational SENCO on a daily basis, as well as lead on intervention sessions during advisory periods. Good levels of literacy and numeracy are essential.
Meopham school is situated in a beautiful village location. Our staff love working in our warm friendly, family environment.
The school is unique in that it has all the benefits of a small school rural setting, with the advantages of working as part of a larger Trust. Meopham school is the highest performing non-selective school in Kent. We invite you to be a significant part of our future success.
Further information about the job
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.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Meopham School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 957 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Meopham School website
- Email address
- jennifer.browne@swale.at
- Phone number
- 01474 814646
We are an 11-18 school located in the beautiful village of Meopham, taking students from the surrounding villages and also from Gravesend, which is close by via public transport. We are very proud to be able to offer these young people a dynamic and forward-thinking school that embraces modernity, whilst also providing the tranquility and natural beauty of a traditional village setting. We believe that all young people - regardless of background - should be able to benefit from an education in such a setting.
As part of Swale Academies Trust, we benefit from a collaborative network of nine secondary schools in Kent and East Sussex, and as such, there are a range of professional development and further career progression opportunities available, including the full range of National Professional Qualifications.
We’re a supportive, friendly, approachable team who all work together because we all believe in the same thing: that our job, as educators, is to make the world - and its future - a better place. If you believe in the same thing too, then we warmly welcome you to come and take a look at what our school has to offer.
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