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Teaching Assistant

Walbottle Academy, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear, NE15 9TP

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Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
17 April 2024 at 9am
Date listed
25 March 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: 35 Hours, 39 Weeks
Contract type: Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary: £25,545.00 - £26,421.00
Actual salary: £21,349.06 - £22,081.17
Pay scale: SCP 10-12

What skills and experience we're looking for

Experience of working in a school environment
Experience of using Microsoft Office packages, SIMS, databases and web technologies

Excellent communication and listening skills
Ability to respect and maintain confidentiality
ICT literate with a working ability to use key IT software to present work to a high standard
Ability to relate to students in a pleasant the sympathetic manner and to recognise potential child safeguarding issues
Efficient and effective organisational skills
Excellent customer service skills and ability to respond quickly as circumstances dictate
Ability to work effectively as part of a team, understanding Academy roles and responsibilities and your own position within these
Ability to adapt own approach in accordance with pupils needs
Advanced understanding of national curriculum and other basic learning programmes/techniques
Experience of resources preparation to support learning programmes

What the school offers its staff

Northern Education Trust offers:

The opportunity to work and progress across the family of schools, should you wish in the future;
The chance to apply for leadership roles in the Deeps structure taking on a whole school leadership project;
The support and expertise of Director of Subjects.
A full and detailed programme of support and development for all;
A further comprehensive programme of professional development, including leadership, provided through the NET Staff College.

Employee benefits

Free flu vaccinations
Free onsite parking
Employee discounts such as competitively priced car leasing
Access to various discount sites

Further details about the role

Post:Teaching Assistant

Contract Type:Permanent

Salary:SCP 10- 12, £25,545.00 - £26,421.00 FTE (£21,349.06 - £22,081.17 Pro rata salary)

Salary amounts quoted are from the 1 September to 31 August and therefore if you commence employment part way through the academic year they are subject to an equated salary adjustment

Working Type:Full Time (35 Hours, 39 Weeks) paid weeks 45.942

Base:Walbottle Academy, Hexham Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE15 9TP

Please note: the post holder will be engaging in regulated activity, working mainly or wholly with children. This position is exempt from the rehabilitation of offender’s act 1974. It is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

Northern Education Trust (NET) is a charitable education Trust with a good track record for school improvement. The Trust sponsors 26 academies; 14 secondary and 12 primaries across the North of England in twelve Local Authority regions.

As the largest academy within Northern Education Trust, staff at Walbottle Academy describe it as a sleeping giant. Despite having only joined Northern Education Trust in 2020, Walbottle Academy has seen rapid school improvement throughout. The huge impact of the Trust on the academy has resulted in systematic changes, structural alterations and enhanced leadership that has all worked together to drive phenomenal positive changes for both students and staff. Through the sharing of the Trust’s vision and values, Walbottle Academy’s students and staff have been united through a consistent, outcomes focused approach to teaching and learning that has helped progression to continue.

Northern Education Trust offers:

The opportunity to work and progress across the family of schools, should you wish in the future;
The chance to apply for leadership roles in the Deeps structure taking on a whole school leadership project;
The support and expertise of Director of Subjects.
A full and detailed programme of support and development for all;
A further comprehensive programme of professional development, including leadership, provided through the NET Staff College.

Employee benefits

Free flu vaccinations
Free onsite parking
Employee discounts such as competitively priced car leasing
Access to various discount sites

In accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2022, an online search will be completed on all shortlisted applicants prior to interview. Any relevant information will be discussed further with the applicant during the interview process.

The Trust is committed to safer recruitment practice and pre-employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. All posts are subject to enhanced disclosure and barring service checks. We expect all adults to share our commitment to safeguarding and the health and wellbeing of our pupils.

For more information, please contact Sophie Martin, Business Manager, at s.martin@northerneducationtrust.org

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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