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Teaching Assistant

Queen Katharine Academy, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE4 6HX

This job expired on 6 October 2023 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  6 October 2023 at 9am

• Date listed

  6 September 2023

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subjects: Teaching Assistant, Learning Support Assistant
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Pathway 3, Point 9-13 £17,370 - £18,683 (FTE £23,194.00- £24,948.00)

Teaching Assistant job summary

Teaching
Assistant

Hours: 32.5
hours per week 8.30am-3.30pm (with 30 minutes unpaid lunch)

39 weeks per annum (term time
plus one week)

Salary: Pathway
3, Point 9-13 £17,370 - £18,683 (FTE £23,194.00- £24,948.00)

Site: Queen
Katharine Academy

Closing
date: 9am Friday 6th October 2023

Start: ASAP

 

Please note – Thomas Deacon
Education Trust withhold the right to withdraw the advert and/or interview
suitable candidates before the specified closing date.

 Queen Katharine Academy is a rapidly expanding
Academy in Peterborough.  We are looking
to appoint a teaching assistant who wants to make a difference to our students
and join our enthusiastic, hard-working and committed Special Educational Needs
and Disabilities team.

 The school caters for students with a range of
Special Educational Needs and Disabilities, including those with Educational
and Health Care Plans.

 Your role will be to work with students in the
classroom and to work with small groups, supporting them to access learning
activities to meet their needs.  You will
also be required to support students in providing personal and intimate care as
some of our students need assistance with everyday activities.

 The department is well resourced and includes
fantastic practitioners.  We are looking
to appoint a colleague who shares our vision and determination to help every
student achieve their potential.

 The successful candidate must:

• Be willing to undertake personal care training or is
trained and has experience

• Be a team player

• Be pro-active

• Show initiative

• Adopt a consistent approach to all students

• Be flexible

The ability
to establish mutually respectful and supportive relationships with our students
is essential to the role of a Teaching Assistant. The role will be challenging
but rewarding and experience of working with students of secondary school age
would be an advantage although not essential. We would consider personality and
commitment of the utmost importance. Full training will be given.

 This is an excellent opportunity to join a
school within one of the most well-regarded Trusts in the eastern region. The
school has a great history of success and a bright and exciting future.   We are
looking for an ambitious and dynamic teaching assistant as we enter the next
stage of our development and growth.

 Collaboration, educational research and
professional development are at the core of how the schools within Thomas
Deacon Education Trust work together. With a clear focus on colleagues at all
levels, the Trust is well placed to provide great opportunities.

 At Queen
Katharine Academy, you will be given effective support to develop as an
outstanding TA.

The Trust
offers:

·        
Excellent
salary package.

·        
Fantastic
training/CPD opportunities in a friendly supportive environment.

·        
Opportunity
for progression across Thomas Deacon Education Trust.

·        
Use
of Academy facilities (including a gym and onsite car parking).

·        
An
engaging, creative and welcoming environment to learners who take pride in
their school.

·        
An
inclusive and collaborative approach.

·        
A
talented, highly motivated, committed and professional team of colleagues, both
within the school and across the trust.

·        
An
actively supportive Local Academy Committee and Trust leadership.

 Thomas Deacon Education 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 Academy will require the successful
candidate to provide satisfactory references and undertake an Enhanced Check
with the Disclosure and Barring Service.

 If you have
any questions regarding this post or would like to arrange a visit please
contact the HR Team on e-mail hrteam@tdet.education.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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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.

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About Queen Katharine Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1685 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Queen Katharine Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/queen-katharine-academy

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