Teaching Assistant
Thomas Keble School, Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL6 7DY14 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 January 2025
Closing date
14 November 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
23 October 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: 30 hours per week, Mon - Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Grade F (Pts 6-12) £16,198 - £ 17,912; £23,893 - £26,421 pa FTE (pay award pending)
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and committed qualified Teaching Assistant to work with our KS3 and KS4 pupils, within our supportive and experienced team. A recognised qualification of NVQ 3 (or the willingness to complete one) or above is essential as well as good communication skills and experience of working with children.
The successful candidate will work under the supervision of the SENDCO and provide individual and group support for those pupils with Education Health Care Plans. In keeping with the grade for this post you will be expected to liaise with staff and assist pupils to access the curriculum, considering their individual needs.
We look to employ people with a genuine passion for supporting pupils who experience additional barriers to their learning, to enable them to feel fulfilled and succeed to their full potential academically and socially. We will support the new member of our team with appropriate CPD to engage and support pupils. This CPD may include supporting different areas of need, behaviour management and emotional literacy.
What the school offers its staff
You will join a friendly team of staff, who are dedicated to ensuring that all learners reach their full potential. In our recent Ofsted, July 2023, the Inspection Team said:
"Thomas Keble continues to be a Good School."
“Leaders have created a nurturingenvironment which supports pupils to learn and achieve well.”
“Pupils’ behaviouris calm and friendlyand disruption to learning is rare.”
“Pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) are well supported”
“Pupils feel happy and safe at school.”
This post includes membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme: Minimum of 27% Employers Pension contribution at current rates.
Commitment to safeguarding
Thomas Keble School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all staff, Trustees, volunteers and visitors to share this commitment. Our aim is to ensure child protection concerns and referrals are handled sensitively, professionally and in ways that support specific needs of the individual child. Through providing a caring, safe and stimulating environment we aim to foster an atmosphere of trust, respect and security. Our staff form a part of a wider safeguarding system for children and will work together with children’s services, the police, health services and other agencies.
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About Thomas Keble School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 707 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Thomas Keble School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@thomaskeble.gloucs.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01452 770301
Thomas Keble is a very successful 11 - 16 comprehensive school, located in an area of outstanding natural beauty in the Cotswolds. As a school community we work hard and go the extra mile for our student body, who in return , are warm, welcoming and well-motivated. We are proud of our consistent approach that delivers very positive behaviour and strong discipline which allows us to enjoy learning and teaching in a a first class atmosphere of mutual respect.
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