Teaching Assistant (SEN) x 7 posts
High Well School, Pontefract, West Yorkshire, WF8 2DD16 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
28 February 2025 at 3pm
Date listed
7 February 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern
- Full time: 34 hours per week, term time plus 5 INSET days.
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- G5 SCP 7-11, FTE £ 24,294 - £ 25,979 (Actual £19,147-£20,475)
What skills and experience we're looking for
In our successful candidates, we are looking for people who can demonstrate:
§ Good communication skills along with the ability to work as part of a team or independently using your own initiative.
§ Initiative to organise all teaching equipment, is in safe working order and secure at all times.
§ Ability to provide general support with learning activities
§ Skills in supporting the positive management of behaviour, interventions and reward.
If you are successful in your application, you will join a good school on its journey to its next level of development. There are no two days the same at High Well School where every day is exciting and where you will be utilising the excellent support systems in place. Class sizes in High Well are around ten pupils, with highly talented and experienced teaching and support staff for every group to ensure pupils develop secure relationships with staff and enable personalised planning and delivery.
The successful candidates will be joining a school that offers many other personal benefits including:
§ A positive, friendly and professional working environment.
§ An opportunity to work with an amazing group of young people.
§ Bespoke and comprehensive induction package for new staff followed up with outstanding CPD.
§ A subsidised Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
§ A talented and supportive Senior Leadership Team and dedicated Governing Body.
§ A supportive environment in which your talents will be encouraged, nurtured and rewarded.
If you like the idea of working with a talented school team, we would love to hear from you right now!
What the school offers its staff
§ A positive, friendly and professional working environment.
§ An opportunity to work with an amazing group of young people.
§ Bespoke and comprehensive induction package for new staff followed up with outstanding CPD.
§ A subsidised Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
§ A talented and supportive Senior Leadership Team and dedicated Governing Body.
§ A supportive environment in which your talents will be encouraged, nurtured and rewarded.
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@highwell.org.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About High Well School
- School type
- Special school, ages 9 to 16
- School size
- 106 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 9 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- High Well School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- admin@highwell.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01924572100
High Well School is a Special School which caters for a minimum of seventy 9-16 year olds with an Education Health & Care Plan for severe and profound social, emotional and mental health needs as well as other learning difficulties. The School meets the needs of some of Wakefield’s most complex and vulnerable young people.
High Well endeavours to provide a nurturing environment with personalised support and specialist teaching to enable our pupils to re-engage in learning, develop their social and emotional skills and leave with not only appropriate qualifications but the skills required to succeed in life after school. This is reflected in our vision of ‘Preparing for Positive Futures’.
Arranging a visit to High Well School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email admin@highwell.org.uk.
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