Teaching Assistant
The Skipton Academy, Skipton, North Yorkshire, BD23 1UQThis job expired on 8 February 2023 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
8 February 2023 at 1:11pm
Date listed
2 December 2022
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern
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- Pattern of hours: Monday – Friday 8.30am – 4.30pm with half an hour unpaid lunch break each day and an early finish of 4.00pm one afternoon each week. Term time only, plus 5 days
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Scale Pay Point 5-6
What skills and experience we're looking for
Key Accountabilities:
1. To work in partnership with class teachers to enable students to access the curriculum.
2. Be aware of and support difference and ensure all pupils have equal access to opportunities to learn and develop.
3. To promote a positive learning environment in the classroom and encourage students to achieve their personal best.
4. Promote and support the inclusion of all students, including those with specific needs, both in learning activities and within the classroom.
5. Assess students’ responses to learning tasks and where appropriate, modify methods to meet individual and/or group needs.
6. Use positive behaviour management strategies, in line with the school’s policy and procedures, to contribute to a purposeful learning environment and encourage students to interact and work co-operatively with others
7. To be a role model for our students and be sensitive and responsive to students’ needs.
8. To communicate with the SENCO of any concerns about a student’s learning.
9. To link with a curriculum area, attending curriculum meetings and feedback to the inclusive learning department.
10. To be responsible, when appropriate, for the mobility, medical and hygiene needs of the students within established policies and practices
11. To keep appropriate records of students’ performance and support as required.
12. To support students in the use of technology in the class to enable and facilitate access to the curriculum.
13. To attend departmental meetings.
14. To carry out administrative support as required.
15. To regularly update yourself with students’ needs.
What the school offers its staff
In return for your commitment we can offer:
- the opportunity to make a real difference students with ‘highly positive attitudes to learning’
- personalised CPD with a strong commitment to professional growth and developing individual career paths
- a very calm and orderly school with high expectations and an ethos of trust and care
- a committed and established staff and a supportive leadership team, parents and Governors
- a location on the edge of the beautiful Yorkshire Dales
Commitment to safeguarding
Moorlands Learning Trust is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to the protection and safeguarding of children and young people in our recruitment procedures and in all our work across and beyond school. The school adheres to statutory guidelines in respect to safe recruitment. All persons employed by the school, in any capacity, will undergo an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, and confirmation of employment is subject to a successful outcome. All teaching staff members recruited by the school have their eligibility to teach checked with the DfE.
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About The Skipton Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 474 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- The Skipton Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- v.okeefe@theskiptonacademy.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01756 792965
The Skipton Academy is a vibrant 11-16 comprehensive school which is rapidly growing and expanding in size; pupil numbers have increased recently to such a degree that we now need to expand our staffing across a range of subject areas.
We are committed to our ethos of “Belong Challenge Inspire” and this has been key to the improvements in every aspect of the school. Our dedicated staff are fully committed to this ethos and have bought into a common goal and support each other to make The Skipton Academy a vibrant and positive place to work.
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