Teaching Assistant
Rose Hill Primary School, Oxford, OX4 4SF11 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2024
Closing date
11 July 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
29 June 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time, full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £23,114.00 - £23,500.00 Annually (FTE) Grade 4 - Actual wage is £17,023- £17307 per year.
Teaching Assistant job summary
Rose Hill Primary School is a friendly and welcoming school on the southern outskirts of Oxford City Centre. We serve a diverse community of families from various socio-economic and cultural backgrounds. We pride ourselves on our school values and sense of community that foster a love for learning.
Education has the power to improve lives, communities, and society. At RLT, we believe that working together rather than alone can achieve more for our pupils, trainees, staff, and communities. Schools in RLT are united by a common belief in the benefits of working together and by our commitment to shared principles.
We are looking for an excellent Teaching Assistant with vision and a passion for bringing out the best in all children and can make a real difference in our school. Specifically, we would like someone who has the following qualities:- Calmness
- Empathy
- Enthusiasm
- Flexibility
- Initiative
Visitors comment on the warm atmosphere in the school. Our children are friendly, enthusiastic and welcoming. They strive to do their best and enjoy attending school. We offer candidates the opportunity to join our supportive and motivated team of staff and governors with excellent opportunities for professional development.
Our school is part of the River Learning Trust. Our collective vision is to be a Trust where pupils and staff thrive in schools that demonstrate a commitment to excellence, everyone's learning, and respectful relationships.
Interviews may be offered before the closing date to the right candidate.
The River Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. All staff must ensure that the highest priority is following the guidance and regulations to safeguard children and young people. The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check. Employment will also be conditional on receiving at least two acceptable references (one from the current/latest employer) and evidence of the formal qualifications required for the role. The River Learning Trust is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from various backgrounds to represent diversity in line with our schools’ community. It is an offence to apply for certain roles within schools if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. You should contact the school if unsure if this role includes regulated activity relevant to children.
For all RLT Safer Recruitment Documentation, candidates should click on the following link RLT Safer Recruitment Documents for Candidates
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. For further guidance for applicants click on the this link List of offences that are not filtered.
Our staff are expected to maintain high standards of ethics and behaviour, within and outside school, by not undermining fundamental British values including democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect, and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.
What benefits does the Trust offer to its employees?
- Annual pay increase for support staff (in line with grade boundaries)
- A Defined Benefit Pension Scheme with favourable terms for all employees
- Moving from the public sector? Those without a break in service can be reassured that RLT will recognise their continuous service.
- Employee centred and family friendly policies and practises that support you in and beyond your workplace.
- Offering flexible working wherever we can, in order to support the work life balance of our employees.
- Enhanced sick pay, maternity leave, paternity leave and parental leave.
- Competitive holiday entitlement for support staff (minimum 24 days rising to 32 day plus bank holidays per annum - dependent on grade of role and length of service)
- Cycle to work scheme
- Flexibility
- Enthusiasm
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
Using the application form
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
About Rose Hill Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- View all Primaryjobs
- School size
- 288 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Rose Hill Primary School website (opens in new tab)
Rose Hill is an enjoyable and interesting place to work with a brilliant cultural mix and a broad, child-focused curriculum.
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