Teaching Assistant
Oxted School, Oxted, Surrey, RH8 0AB23 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
31 January 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
6 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £24,332.00 - £26,471.00 Annually (FTE)
Teaching Assistant job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for a passionate, dedicated and motivated Teaching Assistant to join us at Oxted School. The successful candidate will support teachers in delivering and evaluating teaching materials to suit the particular requirements of students, including those with Special Educational Needs. You will be expected to provide reassurance to students in the classroom while encouraging independence at all times.
This is a term-time role: 36 hours per week / 39 weeks per year.
Support staff at THPT are highly valued, highly professional, and always have young people’s best interests at heart. Central to our ethos are the positive relationships and personalised approach which we take with all our students. As a member of our support staff team, you will be encouraged to be pro-active, take the initiative, and look for ways in which you can better serve students through your role.
THPT is also able to offer:
An opportunity to be part of a dynamic and developing organisation
An excellent benefit package to include Cycle to Work, Sainsbury’s Loyalty Discount and access to discount schemes
A fantastic Local Government Pension Scheme, including generous employer contributions
Rewards and Benefits Scheme that includes Loyalty and Service Awards
Full access to the Employee Assistance Programme from health assured
All adults employed by the Trust have a responsibility for data protection and have a duty to observe and follow the principles of the GDPR Regulations.
The Howard Partnership Trust welcomes applications from all, irrespective of gender, marital status, disability, race, age or sexual orientation.
All applicants must be able to provide evidence of their Right to Work in the UK prior to commencement of employment. As part of our need to comply with UK immigration rules, you will be required to provide Home Office stipulated documentation prior to interview.
Early applications are encouraged. We reserve the right to interview and appoint prior to the closing date of this advertisement.
As well as verification of identity, we ask all successful candidates to undertake an enhanced DBS disclosure. In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) guidance, we may also conduct an online search about any shortlisted candidates as part of our due diligence to identify any matters that might relate directly to our legal duty to meet safeguarding duties, in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE).
We really want you to shine as part of our application and selection process, so that you can truly perform at your best and feel comfortable. Our processes are extremely flexible, so please let us know what we can do so that you can be at your best throughout the application and selection stages. Our selection processes are flexible, so please let us know what we can do so that you can be at your best. Please contact the HR Team for an informal chat, so that we can help create the perfect environment for you for the assessment/selection process.
Safeguarding and Further Information
The successful candidate will be subject to a satisfactory enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
The Howard Partnership Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment
Due to the nature of this role, it will be necessary for the appropriate level of criminal record disclosure to be undertaken. In making your application, it is essential you disclose whether you have any pending charges, convictions, bind-overs or cautions and, if so, for which offences. This post will be exempt from the provisions of Section 4 (2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Therefore, applicants are not entitled to withhold information about convictions which for other purposes are ‘spent’ under the provision of the Act, and, in the event of the employment being taken up; any failure to disclose such convictions will result in dismissal or disciplinary action. The fact that a pending charge, conviction, bind-over or caution has been recorded against you will not necessarily debar you from consideration for this appointment.
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
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Oxted School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1708 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Oxted School website (opens in new tab)
School location
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