Teaching Assistant - Walford Centre
Thomas Deacon Academy, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE1 2UW7 days remaining to apply
Start date details
January 2025
Closing date
9 December 2024 at 9am
Date listed
27 November 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Pathway 3, £20,846 - £22,231, (FTE £26,409 - £28,163) per annum
Teaching Assistant - Walford Centre job summary
Teaching Assistant - Walford Centre
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 33.75 hours, 39 weeks (term time plus one week)
Working pattern: Monday – Friday, 8.15am – 3.30pm
Salary: Pathway 3, £20,846 - £22,231, (FTE £26,409 - £28,163) per annum
Site: Thomas Deacon Academy
Closing date: 9th December
Start date: January 2025
Please note the trust may decide to withdraw the advert before the closing date or interview suitable candidates prior to the advert closing.
Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of young people?
Do you have the skills to support students in overcoming barriers to learning?
If so, we want you to join our team at the Walford Centre!
Your role:
As a Teaching Assistant within the Walford Centre at Thomas Deacon Academy, you will play a crucial role in supporting students overcome barriers to learning. Your excellent interpersonal and organisational skills will help you assess and address the unique requirements of each student, ensuring they can fully engage with their learning. You will work closely with subject teachers, clarify instructions, and adapt resources to meet individual needs. Your commitment to promoting literacy, numeracy, and safeguarding the welfare of all students will be essential. You will have GCSEs in Maths and English, effective communication skills, flexibility, reliability, punctuality, high levels of concentration, and attention to detail. Experience in a school or exams setting is desirable.
About us:
The Walford Centre at Thomas Deacon Academy is part of the school's Appropriate Provision which is committed to providing a supportive and inclusive environment for all students. This is a small provision that is part of the main TDA Academy which focuses upon bespoke support to ensure students are ready to access the main Academy and realign their past poor behaviour choices. It focuses on offering specialised support and resources to allow students to overcome barriers to learning ensuring they have the necessary tools and assistance to thrive academically and personally.
Thomas Deacon Academy is a vibrant and inclusive secondary school in Peterborough, rated ‘Good’ by Ofsted, with a strong commitment to excellence and innovation. At Thomas Deacon Academy, we believe in the power of courtesy, commitment, compassion, courage, curiosity, and confidence. These values are at the heart of everything we do, and we are looking for someone who embodies them in their work.
Why work for us?:
We are part of the Thomas Deacon Education Trust and we can offer you:
- Progression opportunities across the Trust
- Continuous development, e.g. training, coaching
- Access to one of the most generous pension schemes in the UK (LGPS & teachers’ pension scheme)
- Free flu vaccinations
- Cycle to work scheme
- Recommend a Friend Reward scheme
- Free & confidential Employee Assistance Programme
- Trained Mental health first aiders
- Collaborative working across schools in the Trust
Ready to transform lives through education? Apply now and make a difference!
TDET - Working together to transform lives through education
Thomas Deacon 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. The Academy will require the successful candidate to provide satisfactory references and undertake an Enhanced Check with the Disclosure and Barring Service.
At Thomas Deacon Education Trust, we are committed to equality of opportunity for all. We welcome applications from everyone, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation. Join us in fostering an inclusive and supportive environment where all contributions are valued.
If you have any questions regarding this post, please contact the HR Team on e-mail at hrteam@tdet.education
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.
About Thomas Deacon Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 7 to 19
- Education phase
- Through
- School size
- 2367 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 7 to 19
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Thomas Deacon Academy website (opens in new tab)
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