Teaching Assistant

Restormel Academy, St Austell, Cornwall, PL25 4TJ

9 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  12 July 2024 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  26 September 2023

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 2, Key stage 3
• Working pattern: Part time: 32.5 hrs per week, term time only Mon – Fri.
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £23,114 - £23,893
• Actual salary: £17,312 - £17,895
• Pay scale: NJC 4-6

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are looking to appoint anoutstanding and committed Teaching Assistant who embodies our Trust values; candidates who have diverse experience, as well as a passion for working with young people with additional needs.

Our ideal candidate will have excellent teamwork and communication skills, boundless patience and resilience and the ability and enthusiasm to make a difference with pupils who have a range of social, emotional and mental health needs.

For a full list of duties, please see the job description.

Wave is dedicated to the safeguarding of children and Safer Recruitment Procedures will be followed. The position requires a satisfactory enhanced DBS check and online check.

To apply please use our application form available on our website Vacancies - Wave MAT. We may close this vacancy early as we review applications as they are received, to ensure you are considered for this role please do not wait for the deadline to submit your application.

For any general questions contact us here or email us at recruitment@waveedu.org

What the school offers its staff

• Pension Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Counselling
• Occupational Health Services
• Professional Development & Training
• Salary depending on experience
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Tech Scheme
• Free Will Writing Benefit
• Health & Wellbeing Champion
• Company sick pay dependent on service
• Free refreshments in workplaces

Further details about the role

Wave are an established and successful Multi Academy Trust, comprising of Alternative Provision Academies (APAs), Medical Academies (including Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust’s child and adolescent mental health unit ‘Sowenna’) and a Special Academy.

We provide education for vulnerable pupils aged 4 – 19 across Devon and Cornwall. The Trust has a national reputation for the delivery of outstanding pupil outcomes including enabling pupils to access the most appropriate education setting and transition to employment, training and higher or further education. The Trust educates over 1000 pupils and employs over 350 members of staff.

We Aim To

• Provide a balanced and broad curriculum that promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils and prepares them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of adult life.
• Give access to the National Curriculum; provide opportunities for external accreditation, and, for those pupils with specific learning difficulties, effective and personalised programmes.
• Ensure all pupils are supported to develop positive attitudes towards themselves and others. Promoting emotional well-being and self-esteem; helping our pupils to recognise their potential and work positively within their community.
• We will respect all pupils and encourage them to become active participants in their own learning, develop confidence, independence, self-esteem and express their needs and desires.
• Seek effective and positive working relationships with pupils’ families, schools and other agencies.
• Enable effective outcomes for our pupils.

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

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Apply for the job by following the link below

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RES009_Job Ad_ TA Restormel 12.07.pdf - 242 KB (opens in new tab)

Teaching Assistant JD and Role Specification.1.pdf - 211 KB (opens in new tab)

About Restormel Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 5 to 16
• School size: 15 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 5 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Restormel Academy website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: recruitment@waveedu.org
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/restormel-alternative-provision-academy (opens in new tab)

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