Teaching Assistant

Parley First School, Ferndown, Dorset, BH22 8QE

19 days remaining to apply

Job start date
24 February 2025
Closing date
3 February 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
7 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: £12,691.00 Annually (Actual) Based on less than 5 years continuous service

Teaching Assistant job summary

Salary Scale: Grade D Point 5 FTE £24,790 p.a (£12.85 per hr) 43.9 paid weeks per year based on less than 5 years service

Term Time Only - 22.5hrs per week, Monday to Friday 8:30 to 1pm

The role requires a skilled individual who would be able to be flexible and creative in their approach to working with children.

The successful candidate will need to:

- be a willing learner experienced in working with primary aged children

- demonstrate the ability to understand children’s learning and behavioural needs and adapt accordingly

- hold a relevant qualification, or be willing to undertake relevant training

- demonstrate, through practice, their knowledge and understanding of complex communication needs and appropriate planning, monitoring and assessment to support those needs

- We are keen to develop our Forest School opportunities within the school so forest school qualification would be desirable but not essential

It’s the staff in our academies who make our schools vibrant places of learning - who do all they can to make sure our children become confident individuals, successful learners and responsible citizens. Our staff want to make a real difference to the lives of the children they work with and are learners themselves who relish professional development opportunities.  

Working in a Castleman Academy Trust school you'll be working with other forward thinkers, who see possibilities and are optimistic. You'll have the support of like-minded colleagues and together we'll ensure everyone has a great work life balance. Being part of the Castleman Academy Trust means there are a whole host of opportunities for you to develop and flourish. 

We are looking for a Teaching Assistant to join us at Parley First School from 24th February 2025. Parley First School believe our purpose is to ‘prepare children for a life well lived’.

We are looking for people who-

Are passionate about learning as learning is at the heart of everything we do
Want to inspire young learners to be the best they can be
Believe teamwork is vital to be successful
Lead by example
Have an eye for details that matter
Are solution focused
Are prepared to take their turn in taking the lead
Are intuitive and positive thinking
Take their job seriously but not themselves
Notice a job needs doing and get it done
Have a real desire to join the Castleman Trust and help build an inspiring learning community where all thrive and are successful

We can offer you:-

Excellent CPD opportunities
Eligibility to join the Local Government Pension Scheme
Free access to the Employee Assistance Programme
Cycle to Work Scheme

If you would like to be a part of this exciting journey, we would like to hear from you.

The Castleman Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

The successful candidate will be required to demonstrate that they meet the essential elements of the person specification and will be subject to pre-employment checks including an Enhanced DBS Check, Child Barred List check, satisfactory references and a health check and, where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants.

An online check will also be conducted on all shortlisted applicants. This check will form part of a safeguarding check, and the search will purely be based on whether an individual is suitable to work with children. As care must be taken to avoid unconscious bias and any risk of discrimination, a person who will not be on the appointment panel will conduct the search and will only share information if and when findings are relevant and of concern.

This role is UK based and your Right to Work will need to be established as part of the appointment process

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (2013 and 2020)) provide that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. The Ministry of Justice guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide via https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974 .

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.