Teaching Assistant
Pinderfields Hospital PRU, Wakefield, WF2 0LW13 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
2 December 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
8 November 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time, part time: 1 x 15 hrs per week - 12 noon to 3pm daily Monday to Friday and 1 x 30 hrs per week - 8.45am to 3.15pm daily Monday to Friday Term time only plus 5 INSET days
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- G5
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for someone:
- With experience of working with children with SEMH and ASD
- To help deliver an appropriate and outstanding curriculum
- To support young children aged 5-11 years old to the end of KS2, who have severe SEMH and ASD both with class based activities and over lunchtime
- To support the development of the Woodlands Centre provision with particular reference to young children with SEMH & ASD
- To promote and support the achievement of all children through work with officers, agencies, schools, families and children where SEMH and ASD are a factor
- To support assessment within the provision
- To participate as a team member in the operation, promotion, evaluation and development of the Woodlands Centre and to work collaborately
- To be an outstanding practitioner who provides stimulating learning opportunities and enjoys working with young children
What the school offers its staff
We will offer:
- A unique opportunity to develop your skills and work to ensure all young children with SEMH/ASD access appropriate education
- Experience which will extensively enhance your professional development
- A dedicated team of staff with experienced and supportive management who recognise and promote a positive work/life balance
- A high quality working environment with a calm, welcoming ethos
- An additional wellbeing day
Further details about the role
Woodlands is based at College Grove, Castleford WF10
PHPRU Woodlands Centre is a small specialist school for children who are 5 to 11 years old. We have up to 16 children. All children have profound social, emotional and mental health needs (SEMH). Many children have communication and interaction needs as well.
Children learn and gain skills to enable them to reach their full potential, this includes English and Maths. However, our curriculum also has a strong emphasis on developing emotional regulation and the skills to engage with learning in a nurturing environment. We provide:
- A specialist curriculum to meet children’s SEMH
- Specialist interventions outlined in their Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP)
- A high level of adult support
We are on the site of a mainstream school (Ackton Pastures). We have good links with the school which allows us to work together on things like school dinners or cleaning. However, we are a specialist setting that is fully separate from the school.
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
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to admin@hospitalschools.wakefield.sch.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Pinderfields Hospital PRU
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 2 to 19
- School size
- 91 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Pinderfields Hospital PRU website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- admin@hospitalschools.wakefield.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01924 298351
Pinderfields Hospital Pupil Referral Unit (PHPRU) provides educational opportunities for children and young people between 2 and 19 years with medical needs and /or SEN in a range of settings.
PHPRU is not a typical PRU, it works with the LA to support pupils who are currently medically unfit to attend in the short term and those in hospital. However, it also has a key role to play in providing early years assessment and specialist placements for pupils with EHC plans in partnership with the LA, and is involved in future developments of the offer across the district.
This results in a multi-site approach to meeting a range of SEND needs:
• Forest Wood Centre
• Early Years Assessment Centre
• Thornes Centre
• Woodlands Centre
• Limes Centre
• Hospital and Interim Tuition
• Education support for secondary -age students at Wrenthorpe Centre
• Bespoke support to other schools and academies through service level agreements
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