Teaching Assistant Part Time
Stopsley Community Primary School, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU2 7UG14 days remaining to apply
Start date details
January 2025
Closing date
18 December 2024 at 3pm
Date listed
3 December 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £24,404.00 Annually (Actual) L2 (SCP 4-5) £24,404 FTE (£7,517 pro rata annual salary)
Teaching Assistant Part Time job summary
This is an amazing school and a great place to work. We believe in professionally growing staff so it might be that your career starts here. We have a rare opportunity to appoint a highly motivated person to join our successful team as a KS1 Teaching Assistant. This post would suit either someone with experience or a post graduate.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and talented person to work in our highly successful year 2 team for two days a week. This is a wonderful opportunity for an ambitious and hard-working individual to support teaching and learning, working with a range of children with different backgrounds, abilities and needs. You would support in all subjects and would be guided by our brilliant teachers. If you want to enjoy your job, are passionate about education and success and want to work with children, then we would love to hear from you.
Candidates will need to:
- Have some experience or knowledge of working with children
- Be able to communicate well with pupils, colleagues and parents
- Have patience and calmness and be proactive in dealing with challenges
- Have gained at least a 4 or above (or the equivalent of) in GCSE English and maths
As a school, we offer the following benefits:
- Wonderful children who are well behaved and keen to learn
- A professional and supportive work environment
- An original well-being package with paid leave of absence during term time (highly rare in schools)
- An exciting curriculum, with global learning at the heart, which enables children to become #changemakers
- Regular training programme for Teaching Assistants
- Rewarding career progression opportunities
- A positive working atmosphere (a good work-life balance; well-being opportunities)
- Our own well-being team who look after you daily
Hours: 13.5 hours per week. Thursday and Friday 8.30am - 3.45pm (term-time only).
L2 (SCP 4-5) £24,404 FTE (£7,517 pro rata annual salary).
Stopsley is a top school in Luton with a real 'can do' attitude amongst everyone who works here. You are welcome to come and see for yourself or call us for an informal chat.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and expect all members of staff to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be required to apply for an enhanced DBS check. We welcome applications regardless of age, gender, ethnicity or religion.
To apply for the post, please complete the application form via the advert or on our school website. If preferred, you may email your application directly to the Headteacher, Richard Fordham, at: head@stopsley.primaryluton.co.uk
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 Stopsley Community Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 462 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
Stopsley Community Primary School and Nursery is a thriving and active school in Luton that provides a secure, happy and stimulating environment in which children are able to fulfil their potential.
Children only get one go at life. We do everything that we can to make sure that the children who come to our school get the very best. We give them the very best teaching, the best learning, the best resources, the best support and the best opportunities that they can have. Every child matters to us and we make sure that they can all really go places.
We pride ourselves at Stopsley on success. Our children all achieve well. We are passionate about sport, music, art and drama as well as providing a variety of learning experiences which enable our children to make choices, solve problems, become independent learners and set their own high standards. Our children are inspired. They aspire to make something special of themselves and they work incredibly hard - taking risks and always showing a growth mindset.
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