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  • Job start date

    4 November 2024

  • Closing date

    11 October 2024 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    20 September 2024

Job details

Job role

  • Teaching assistant

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Part time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£23,337.00 Annually (FTE) Kent Range 3 (£23,337.00 FTE) - 32.5 hours per week, 39 weeks per year (TTO +Inset days)

Teaching Assistant job summary

We are looking for a highly skilled, dedicated and enthusiastic Teaching Assistant to join our team at Tymberwood Academy . You need to be committed to providing children with exceptional learning opportunities in a fun and caring environment, committed to teamwork, have a can-do attitude with a good sense of humor and be prepared to go that extra mile.

Providing class support, you should be experienced in working with children and adapting and extending learning within a safe, stimulating and inclusive learning environment. Working with the class teacher, you will be responsible for providing excellent learning opportunities for all which may require structured small group or 1:1 activities to ensure the curriculum is accessed by all. You should have experience of delivering whole class learning and an ability to bring learning to life so that children have practical hands on learning experiences that foster a real love of learning.

We are looking for:

  • someone to provide excellent provision for our children and play an integral role in the development of our school

  • someone who is forward thinking and adaptable

  • someone who is relentless in securing academic and emotional progress for every child.


    For further information about the role come and visit our school! To book your visit or for an informal discussion, please contact the school office. School visits are encouraged but are by appointment only.

    Why work with us:

    There are over 60 schools within the Trust which means we can offer opportunities including:

    ▶️Collaboration across other REAch2 schools, both locally and nationally.

    ▶️ Specialist curriculum support and training from our Trust experts - providing a flightpath for professional development

    ▶️ A support package for staff wellbeing

    You’ll be working for a Trust with big ambitions for all our schools to be 'great'. We want to be national leaders in sustainability; to transform our teaching and learning through digital transformation and to ensure social justice is at the heart of what we do.

    Safeguarding, Safer Recruitment and Data Protection 

    At REAch2 we recognise that those who work in an academy are in a unique position in their care of children. The responsibility for all staff to safeguard pupils and promote their welfare, as stated in Section 175 of the Education Act (2002) is one that is central to our ethos, our policies and our actions. All children are deserving of the highest levels of care and safeguarding, regardless of their individual characteristics or circumstances, and we are committed to applying our policies to ensure effective levels of safeguarding and care are afforded to all our pupils.  

    We will seek to recruit the best applicant for the job based on the abilities, qualifications, experience as measured against the job description and person specification. The recruitment and selection of staff will be conducted in a professional, timely and responsive manner and in compliance with current employment legislation, and relevant safeguarding legislation and statutory guidance. An enhanced DBS disclosure will be requested for all successful candidates, including a Children's Barred List check if the role meets the criteria for regulated activity.

    For more information about our safer recruitment processes, please click here for our Safer Recruitment Policy.

    All information is stored securely, and any information supplied by unsuccessful candidates will be destroyed through a confidential waste system six months after the decision has been communicated, in accordance with our information and records retention policy. 

    The Trust ensures all applicant data is stored and processed appropriately. For further details on how your information will be managed during the recruitment process please refer to our Privacy Notice for Job Applications.

    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.

    Applying for the job

    This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

    CVs are not accepted.

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    About Tymberwood Academy

    School type
    Academy, ages 3 to 11
    Education phase
    View all Primaryjobs
    School size
    385 pupils enrolled
    Age range
    3 to 11

    Tymberwood Academy is an Ofsted rated ‘Good’ school as reported in February 2022. We take workload seriously and work collaboratively with staff to enable an effective work-life balance. As a school we are moving towards being sustainably great. With this in mind, we firmly believe that our children – with a whole variety of different strengths and skills - need to be cared for, need to be loved and need to know that you are fighting for them. Our staff believe that our pupils can go on and do any job or role in the future and essentially that anything is possible. Our staff go above and beyond to enable that to happen. As a forward thinking and progressive school we are a hub for professional development and opportunity where our staff voice matters and is valued. We encourage our teachers to elicit change and actively contribute to help shape our school.

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