Teaching Assistant
Stanchester Academy, Stoke-sub-Hamdon, Somerset, TA14 6UG14 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
29 November 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
6 November 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern
- Part time: 27.5 days per week, 39 weeks per year.
Contract type
- Permanent
Actual salary
- £14,408.02 per annum
What skills and experience we're looking for
At Stanchester Academy we aim to provide a rich and varied education for all of our students. We believe that ensuring students realise their full potential depends upon a continuous drive for excellence by our staff. Our aim at Stanchester Academy is to develop ambitious learners who are knowledgeable and literate.
We are seeking to appoint a Teaching Assistant whose role will include supporting students with learning within the classroom and through targeted interventions. The successful applicant will need to be flexible and able to use their own initiative to help provide the best outcomes for students.
The ideal candidate will have excellent literacy skills. They will have experience of working with students who have additional needs; have good behaviour management skills and a willingness to help students achieve and enable them to be the best they can. Experience of supporting pupils with mental health difficulties would also be valuable.
All applications must be fully completed; incomplete applications will not be considered. Please note we do not accept CVs.
Closing date: Midnight, Friday 29th November 2024.
What the school offers its staff
We believe in hiring for potential and this means that we value individuals for the knowledge skills and experience that they have developed in every aspect of their lives. If you don’t feel that you meet all of the criteria listed in the person specification, we would still encourage you to apply.
We care about our staff and provide a number of benefits in addition to salary including a positive and supportive working environment, employer pension contribution of at least 23%, generous annual leave entitlement for all-year round staff, on-site gyms, free parking, access to a retail discounts platform and Employee Assistance Programme. Helping you achieve a good work life balance is important to us. Lots of our colleagues work flexibly including part time hours and/or job shares and we are happy to discuss these opportunities with you.
We truly believe that diversity of thought, culture, background and perspective secure the best outcomes for our students. We strive to build teams that represent our local communities and welcome applications from individuals who identify as members of an under-represented group and in particular individuals who identify as BAME, disabled or LGBT. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
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About Stanchester Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 791 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Stanchester Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@btc-trust.org
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