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Teaching Assistant (TA)

Orchard Academy, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK6 3HW

This job expired on 10 December 2024 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  10 December 2024 at 3pm

• Date listed

  11 September 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: 19440.38 - 20700.16

Teaching Assistant (TA) job summary

Your career #EMATters! We are currently recruiting for a Teaching Assistants who thinks beyond the classroom. We are an organisation that recognises and values its diverse workforce. Join us at EMAT to be part of a team that values innovation, inclusivity, and impact.

About EMAT

EMAT is an exciting, innovative, and growing organisation where we strive to do things differently, aligned with our core values and purpose: that every child deserves to be the best they can be. Our Trust was incorporated in July 2012 to establish, maintain, manage, and develop academies and free schools as world-class centres of excellence. We are a collaborative partnership that currently includes an all-through school in Northampton, a secondary school in Oundle, and five primary schools in Northamptonshire and Milton Keynes. By working for our Trust, you’ll be able to take advantage of a wealth of professional development and support opportunities, as well as a range of employee benefits.

These include:

• Continuous professional development and training opportunities.
• Career and leadership opportunities within our growing family of schools.
• A confidential 24-hour Employee Assistance Programme.
• Access to the Teachers’ Pension Scheme.
• A corporate eye care plan.
• Flu jabs for all staff.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Access to health and wellbeing benefits, including an online GP.
• Access to an employee lifestyle savings platform.
• Generous family leave.

About the School

Orchard is a three-form entry junior school on the Springfield Estate in Milton Keynes with capacity for 360 children across KS2, with a twenty-pupil place social communication department for pupils at both Orchard and Shepherdswell. As a school we are keen to develop talent and provide the necessary support in order that staff can achieve their aspirations and goals, and there are a wide range of learning opportunities to develop these skills.

General Roles and Responsibilities:

·        Undertake work and responsibilities in line with the Standards for Teaching Assistants

·        Be responsible and accountable for achieving the highest possible standards in work and conduct

·        Treat pupils with dignity, building relationships rooted in mutual respect, and at all times observing proper boundaries appropriate to a Teaching Assistant’s professional position

·        Work proactively and effectively in collaboration and partnership with learners, parents/carers, governors, other staff and external agencies in the best interests of pupils

·        Take responsibility for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people within the school

·        Promote the inclusion of all pupils, ensuring equal opportunities for all

·        Assist in the planning, review and delivery of the curriculum for small groups and individuals, including targeted support and interventions across the school

·        Complement the work of teachers by taking responsibility for learning activities, this may involve joint-planning with teachers, preparing and delivering learning activities for individuals and groups, or short term for whole classes

·        Contribute to the monitoring pupils and assessing, recording and reporting on pupils’ achievement, progress and development

·        A wide range of learning opportunities to develop your skills 

 

For more information or an informal conversation, please contact hrqueries@emat.uk.

 

A Note for Recruitment Agencies

We have a team of internal recruiters, and we advertise our vacancies to attract candidates and not agency suppliers. If we need agency assistance, then we will reach out to our trusted partners. Any speculative CVs we receive will not be accepted as an introduction.

EMAT reserves the right to withdraw this advert early if a suitable candidate is found.

EMAT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants will be required to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). References will be taken up before interviews are offered.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, or age.

EMAT encourage a “Speak Up” culture where colleagues are encouraged to raise any concerns relating to risk or wrongdoing. You will be responsible for ensuring that colleagues are supported where necessary to raise concerns without blame or recrimination and should pro-actively raise concerns should they come to your attention.

 

 

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.

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About Orchard Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 7 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 358 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 7 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Orchard Academy website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/orchard-academy (opens in new tab)

Orchard Academy, situated in Springfield Milton Keynes, is at the heart of the community. A large KS2 primary with a 3 form entry,

Orchard is a founding member of the East Midlands Academy Trust and shares leadership, teaching and administration with our neighbour, Shepherdswell Academy, who are also part of EMAT, allowing us to offer the pupils a continuing broad and balanced curriculum at both key stages 1 and 2.

Through the Orchard creed we encourage the boys and girls to celebrate diversity and respect others regardless of ability, gender, ethnicity or religion. We aim to sustain a happy, caring, supportive and positive learning community where each child can develop and extend their potential and achieve success.

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