Teaching Assistant: Primary
Harris Academy Chobham, London, E20 1BDThis job expired on 9 October 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
9 October 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
1 October 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time: 38 weeks per year, 37.5 hours per week; actual salary £24,383.15
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £29,001
Pay scale
- Grade 2 Point 3 (Inner London)
Additional allowances
Performance & Loyalty Bonus + Pension Scheme (LGPS) + Harris Wellbeing Cash Plan + Additional Harris Benefits
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking to appoint a Teaching Assistant at Harris Academy Chobham to support individuals and groups of children to enable access to learning, contributing to the development and maintenance of a purposeful, nurturing learning environment. We would like to hear from you if you have:
- Qualifications to degree level or equivalent
- Some knowledge of strategies in working with young people with challenging behaviours
- Knowledge of some of the social issues facing students from disadvantaged backgrounds
- Awareness of Health and Safety issues in the workplace.
- Experience of working directly with young people in an education or training environment, supporting the learning of students.
- Experience of establishing and maintaining positive working relationships with a range of stakeholders, at all levels.
- Experience of managing and being responsible for own workload.
For a full job description and person specification, please download the Job Pack.
What the school offers its staff
Chobham Academy is always on the lookout for inspirational and influential staff. Most of all, we are on the lookout for potential colleagues who like our students and want to help them succeed. In order to help our staff have the best possible experience and achieve a proper work- life balance, we have put into place a range of measures to benefit both our teaching and students services colleagues.
We place high emphasis on staff wellbeing at Chobham. This helps colleagues to be happier and more effective in their work. Staff are regularly consulted about their wellbeing and the outcomes of these consultations have a direct and rapid impact upon the Academy's approach to supporting staff wellbeing.
Our people are at the heart of our success. We have developed a strong culture of collaboration and best practice, with professional development and career planning at its centre. We invest in our staff with support, coaching, mentoring, and a wide range of top-quality training programmes delivered at every level to senior leadership.We look for talented individuals who share our vision for creating exceptional places of learning, and are committed to ensuring that every child in London has access to the best possible education.In addition to the opportunities for career progression, training and development, we also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package which includes our Harris Allowance for teachers on MPS/UPS, a Performance and Loyalty Bonus, Pension Scheme, a Wellbeing Cash Plan and many other benefits.
Further details about the role
As Teaching Assistant, your responsibilities will include:
- Supervising and supporting identified children in 1:1, group or whole class situations, ensuring their safety and access to learning
- Assisting in the development of appropriate resources, schemes of work and teaching strategies, working with the teacher to ensure the provision supports each identified child's learning needs
- Assisting in evaluating identified children's progress through agreed assessment activities
- Providing detailed and regular feedback to teachers on children's achievement, progress and needs
- Leading small group sessions and interventions as appropriate
Commitment to safeguarding
The Harris Federation and all our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, references, an online search, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed.
About Harris Academy Chobham
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 18
- Education phase
- Through
- School size
- 2056 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Harris Academy Chobham website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- info@chobhamacademy.org.uk
- Phone number
- 0203 747 6060
Chobham Academy opened in September 2013 as part of the Harris Federation. Our 3-18 academy is a world class educational legacy of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Situated within the East Village complex, the academy serves the community newly established in 2,800 new homes, along with existing communities in Newham and Waltham Forest. Chobham Academy is judged "Outstanding" in every category by Ofsted.
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