30 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    TBC

  • Closing date

    27 April 2024 at 9am

  • Date listed

    27 April 2023

Job details

Job role

  • Teaching assistant

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2

Working pattern

Contract type

Permanent

Actual salary

£17,952 - £20,764 per annum

What skills and experience we're looking for

Due to a further increase in pupil numbers, we have a number of exciting opportunities for ambitious, talented and committed Teaching Assistants to join our incredible team of dedicated staff.

Judged ‘Outstanding’ in the last three consecutive Ofsted inspections, we have been recognised, and pride ourselves on our innovative and creative approaches throughout our school.

We are looking for individual qualities such as motivation; aspiration; passion and commitment to professional development. You will be driven and ambitious and keen to learn from the highly skilled staff team around you. As an employee of Sherbourne Fields, you will be adaptable in your approach whilst playing a key role in supporting pupils with a wide range of additional need throughout their school day and beyond. You will be able to demonstrate a clear understanding of the school ethos - which embraces change and remains solution focused whilst ensuring children remain at the heart of our practice.

You will be committed to a quality of education that will facilitate the development of strategies and skills for successful learning, and the ability to use them in all aspects of life.

We particularly welcome applications from post graduate students looking to gain SEND experience as part of their longer term career journey, and Health Care professionals looking to change career.

What the school offers its staff

Work Pattern

35 hours per week

39 weeks term time only

Please complete the attached application form (also available from the school website – www.sherbournefields.co.uk)

Please email completed applications to office@sherbournefields.coventry.sch.uk

Applicants must possess GCSE Maths and English

(A – C/4 - 9 or equivalent), and be competent in the use of ICT.

We reserve the right to close the online vacancy when we are in receipt of sufficient applications.

Should you wish to apply for this post you are advised to complete and submit your application form as soon as possible.

Sherbourne Fields is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. A Full enhanced DBS check will be carried out for this post.

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

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to office@sherbournefields.coventry.sch.uk

Visas cannot be sponsored.
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About Sherbourne Fields School

School type
Special school, ages 2 to 19
School size
241 pupils enrolled
Age range
2 to 19

School location

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