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Teaching Assistant

Tuxford Academy, Newark, Nottinghamshire, NG22 0JH

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• Job start date

  1 September 2024

• Closing date

  23 June 2024 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  7 June 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: Part time, term time: 26 hours per week
• Contract type: Permanent
• Actual salary: £14,103 - £15,586

What skills and experience we're looking for

The opportunity

A fantastic chance to work in a busy, friendly academy where teamwork and wellbeing are embedded in our culture. This role would give you the opportunity to use your expertise to help support those students who find the classroom environment a tough place. It’s a chance to make a difference.

The successful candidate will:

• Have the resolve to make a real difference to the lives of students
• Be a committed team player
• Be committed to the academy’s ethos of high expectations.

Essential

• Experience of working with young people in a classroom environment
• Highly effective verbal, written, and visual communication skills

• Ability to be flexible and adjust to changes in a dynamic environment

Desirable

• Experience of working with young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities
• A thorough and practical understanding of issues related to improving students’ progress and ensuring equality of opportunity both in and out of the classroom

What the school offers its staff

Our employee benefits

At Diverse Academies, you’ll find yourself in a vibrant, inclusive and supportive environment, where everyone can grow, progress and achieve a fulfilling career. We offer a fantastic range of rewards and benefits, challenging and interesting work, and opportunities to achieve your potential.

In return you will benefit from:

• Enrolment into the Local Government Pension Scheme with an employer contribution of at least 14%
• ExcellentContinuous Professional Development (CPD) opportunitiescovering technical, leadership and coaching skills via the trust’s Diverse Association for Professional Learning.
• Full support and induction.
• A strong and caring ethos among staff and students.
• Networking opportunities across Diverse Academies.
• Salary sacrifice opportunities such as car, cycle and technology schemes.
• Staff discounts and offers on gym membership, holidays, days out, cinema tickets, restaurants and top online shopping sites including instant voucher codes.
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme – emotional, financial and legal support to both you and your family by a team of qualified professionals.
• Health and Wellbeing delivered through our occupational health provider, eyecare vouchers for a free eye test and contribution towards glasses for display screen equipment users.

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 Tuxford Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1483 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Tuxford Academy website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: shall@tuxford-ac.org.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/tuxford-academy (opens in new tab)

Tuxford Academy is a wonderful place of learning. Following Ofsted’s inspection under the new framework, in which schools are judged in different ways to previously, our students, parents and carers can all be assured that their school is one in which every student has the opportunity to thrive.

The combination of high quality educational standards, strong values and extracurricular opportunities makes places at our academy sought after across the county.

Students, staff, parents and governors have all contributed to this success. Expectations are high, community spirit within the academy is excellent and examination results continue to exceed expectations.

‘Excellence through teamwork’

Fantastic outcomes are achieved at Tuxford by focusing on the key elements of any outstanding academy:

- high quality teaching and learning
- high standards of behaviour and uniform
- a clear focus on achievement
- building an outstanding community spirit within and beyond the academy
- high quality leadership and management in every aspect of the academy’s work

Arranging a visit to Tuxford Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email shall@tuxford-ac.org.uk.

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