Teaching Assistant
The Priory School, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, SG5 2URThis job expired on 12 November 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
12 November 2024 at 9am
Date listed
1 November 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time: Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- H6
What skills and experience we're looking for
The successful candidate will:
- have a good understanding of the SEN code of practice
- have knowledge of the process of learning and effective pedagogy
- be an innovative and creative thinker
- be solutions focussed in their approach to challenges
- demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- show enthusiasm, common sense and good humour
- embody the school’s values of Responsibility, Respect and Resilience
- have the desire to progress further in their career
- have the ability to make a difference to staff and students.
What the school offers its staff
We will provide you with the right balance of support, challenge and stimulation for both job satisfaction and career development.
The Priory School:
- is oversubscribed
- has happy, disciplined students who are eager to achieve their best
- has a well-qualified, hard-working and committed staff who enjoy working at the school
- all students have a Chromebook
- promotes learning outside the classroom though our TPS Award and DofE programme
- has Specialist Resource Provision hub for students with SLCN & ASD
- is committed to innovation and excellence
- actively promotes staff wellbeing
- works in a well-established and successful sixth form consortium
- is situated on a modern, attractive greenbelt campus in Hitchin with excellent transport links to London, Cambridge and beyond
Further details about the role
The Priory School is a thriving learning community, which seeks to appoint two teaching assistants. A highly inclusive school, we have 20% of our intake on the SEN register with 28 students currently with EHCPs.
We are in our second year of enrolling students into our Specialist Resource Provision (SRP) Hub. The Hub caters for 20 students that have EHCPs with speech, language and communication, including Autism, as their main presenting need.
Teaching assistants will work with students allocated to the SRP and identified other students on the SEN register. We are keen to appoint new colleagues who have the relevant experience or are willing to undertake the necessary qualifications to support the life chances of these young people.
Commitment to safeguarding
The Priory School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and visitors to share this commitment. Appointment to this post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS) as well as other pre-appointment checks outlined in Keeping Children Safe in Education (September 2024).
To help us meet our high standards and aspirations of a fully diverse and inclusive workplace, we strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from all backgrounds to apply and to join us.
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About The Priory School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1231 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- The Priory School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- emma.sangster@priory.herts.sch.uk
The Priory School is a vibrant and inclusive Foundation School, which is both rooted in and actively involved in its local community.
This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious and innovative leader who is keen to take their professional next step and will be proud to lead this uniquely placed, co-educational school.
The Priory School is located on the edge of Hitchin, a highly sought-after market town with excellent local amenities and transport links. It boasts a brand new sixth form centre, a funded specialist SEND unit and a spacious 27-acre site with great sports facilities.
As a Foundation school, we work closely with our local educational authority. We deliver a broad and varied subject curriculum (encompassing the National curriculum), but in addition also deliver a wide ranging, extra-curricular offering.
The Priory School is a genuinely welcoming working environment, with a supportive and experienced dedicated staff team.
We aim to provide our students with an excellent standard of education, focused on both progress and attainment, whilst promoting the core values of responsibility, respect, and resilience.
Our vision is to empower every student to develop and meet their aspirations, to be self-confident, inspirational and active members of their community. We believe in developing happy, well rounded, focussed and resilient individuals.
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