Teaching Assistant
Water Lane Primary Academy, Harlow, Essex, CM19 5RDDeadline is tomorrow
Start date details
As soon as possible, Applications considered on receipt
Closing date
10 May 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
26 April 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Part time, term time: 35 hours per week, working hours: 8am to 4pm daily
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £26,873 - £28,779
Pay scale
- NJC E&W SCP 13-17
What skills and experience we're looking for
Water Lane Primary Academy is an Ofsted rated ‘Good’ school and we are currently seeking two Teaching Assistants to work in Key Stage 1 or Key Stage 2 providing help and support to our amazing children. The teaching assistant role is vital to the school and involves supporting children with a variety of needs including Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCP’s).
Successful candidates should have:
- Experience of working with and caring for children in KS1/KS2
- Experience of working with children with special educational needs.
- High expectations of students in terms of learning, achievement and behaviour
- Enthusiasm and dedication to developing innovative approaches to learning, teaching, mentoring and guidance
- A commitment to promoting and fostering good relationships between children and with parents and colleagues
- Experience of working with children in a friendly, busy environment
- Level 2 qualification in play work/childcare
- A current food hygiene certificate (desirable)
- Paediatric first aid qualification (desirable)
- Knowledge of child safeguarding procedures
You should be:
- Forward thinking and willing to adapt to the changing needs of the school
- Able to promote the warm, caring and friendly ethos of the school to pupils, parents and the public
- Able to perform under pressure
- Confident to use your own initiative when required
- Have excellent communication skills
- Have the ability to build effective relationships with students, parents and other staff
- The ability to relate in a firm and friendly way with a wide range of personalities
- The ability to use initiative
- Be willing to undertake direction and guidance
- Have a good understanding of behaviour management strategies
- Be able to work as part of a team
What the school offers its staff
- The chance to be part of a Multi-Academy Trust that genuinely cares about YOU
- The chance to work with a supportive family of schools (REAch2 trust) who share the same passion for primary education.
- The chance to work with a supportive team.
- An excellent CPD training programme with REAch2 and beyond.
- A tenacious and courageous senior leadership team who care fervently about inclusion and promote creativity and thinking outside of the box
- An active school community with supportive parents;
- An award winning learning environment;
- Excellent professional development opportunities;
- A supportive working culture that focuses on positive learning behaviour and high expectations for all children;
- Fun-loving, energetic and enthusiastic pupils (and staff).
- Proactive parents waiting to join us on our journey to excellence
- Membership of a Local Government Pension Scheme LGPS,
- As part of REAch2 employee benefits we also offer an eye care scheme, access to an Employee Assistance Programme for you and your immediate family and membership of ‘perks at work’ – which includes discounts on holidays, shopping, family days out and much more.
Further details about the role
Commitment to safeguarding
REAch2 is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all adults working in or with our schools to share this commitment. Enclosed in our application pack is a copy of our safer recruitment policy, which outlines the steps we take to ensure that we attract the most suitable, candidates, and to help deter, reject or identify people who might abuse children or are otherwise unsuited to working with them. We encourage all potential candidates to read this policy carefully in order to fully understand what is expected of you in our recruitment process.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Water Lane Primary Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- View all Primaryjobs
- School size
- 194 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Water Lane Primary Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- admin@waterlane.essex.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01279 417410
Water Lane is tucked away in a lovely, leafy part of Harlow town. We have very large grounds and our school building offers excellent, fit-for-purpose classrooms, a communal IT hub area, a library, two performance halls and a design and technology kitchen for our children. Our school is part of the Reach2 Academy Trust and as such we receive excellent support and CPD at all levels. Our motto is 'enrichment beyond the classroom' and we live up to it by providing our pupils with exceptional and unusual learning experiences. This is done via our broad and engaging curriculum as well through our our 11b411, Visible Learning and Forest School offer.
Arranging a visit to Water Lane Primary Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email admin@waterlane.essex.sch.uk.
School location
Similar jobs nearby
Learning Support Assistant - Apprentice
Abbotsweld Primary Academy
Partridge Road, Harlow, Essex, CM18 6TE
Quick Apply
High Beech CofE Primary School
Mott Street, Loughton, Essex, IG10 4AP
British Sign Language (BSL) Teacher
Brimsdown Primary School
Green Street, Enfield, Middlesex, EN3 7NA
Get a job alert when similar jobs are listed
Find more school jobs in Harlow and Essex, Southend and Thurrock