Teaching Assistant (Visual Impairment Support)
Sandringham School, St Albans, Hertfordshire, AL4 9NXThis job expired on 20 January 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
April 2025
Closing date
20 January 2025 at 9am
Date listed
6 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £17,552.00 - £18,383.00 Annually (Actual) H4 pro rata, up to 30 hours per week, term time only, full time salary £25,889 - £27,115
Teaching Assistant (Visual Impairment Support) job summary
Up to 30 hours per week, Monday to Friday (start at 8:00am), term time only (38 weeks)
Salary: H4 pro rata, FTE annual salary £25,889 - £27,115
Actual salary: £17,552 - £18,383 (based on 30 hours per week)
Start date: April 2025, fixed term until July 2025
We are looking to recruit a Teaching Assistant to support students with visual impairment within and outside of the classroom, delivering targeted support, as well as helping to support the further development of intervention strategies, such as guided reading. The right candidate will enjoy working with a team to support with the planning and implementation of support and intervention programmes, work with external agencies and support the SENDCO with daily co-ordination and support of specific students with Visual impairment. Training and on-going support will be provided. The teaching assistant role is also suitable for those who wish to experience the classroom before embarking upon a teacher-training qualification. This post is explicitly linked to High Needs Funding (HNF) and is therefore initially fixed term until July 2025. You may refer to the job description for more information about the role.
The successful candidate will:
- have professional integrity
- have excellent attention to detail
- have the ability to work well within a team
- be dedicated to support the teaching and learning of students
- promote Sandringham’s ethos and values
Sandringham School is part of the Ambition Education Trust (AET). The Ambition Education Trust (AET) consists of ten schools in Hertfordshire; three primary, one nursery and infants’, one juniors and five secondary. Our Trust launched in September 2024 following the amalgamation of two established Multi Academy Trusts (MATs), Alban Academies Trust and Atlas Multi Academy Trust. As a member of the AET, we are able to maximise opportunities for rewarding careers and opportunities for personal and professional development throughout our wider organisation. Sandringham, School also leads the Alban Teaching School Hub and is also a designated Computing Hub.
Application deadline: 9am on Monday, 20th January 2025
Prospective candidates are encouraged to submit their applications as soon as possible as the school reserves the right to close the advert should we feel able to appoint an appropriate candidate.
Ambition Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointment to a post at AET is subject to a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check, as well as other pre-appointment checks including an online check, as outlined in Keeping Children Safe in Education.
We are committed to the aim of ensuring that everyone who applies to work for us receives fair treatment and we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of age, disability, race, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership and caring status. We expect all our staff to demonstrate a commitment to advancing equality of opportunity and fostering good relations.
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.
About Sandringham School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1767 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Sandringham School website (opens in new tab)
Sandringham is a co-educational academy school, based in St. Albans, Hertfordshire. Sandringham is a non-selective school with over 1600 students, including nearly 450 in the thriving sixth form. Our aim is simple – to be 'World Class' where our students receive the best education possible in a state school.
We believe that every child can succeed in life if challenged and inspired appropriately. A strong academic curriculum supported by outstanding extra-curricular provision helps Sandringham students develop as individuals with the necessary skills to be successful in adult life. Our ethos is summed up by our motto: 'Everybody can be somebody'
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