Teaching Assistant
Waverley Junior Academy, Rotherham, S60 8DDThis job expired on 3 February 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
3 February 2025 at 9am
Date listed
22 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £17,472.00 - £17,749.00 Annually (Actual) NJC Band D £24,790 - £25,183 FTE. The salary will increase by an equivalent of 5 days of pay if the appointee has 5 years or more continuous service with the Local Authority. The role is for 30 hours per week.
Teaching Assistant job summary
Waverley Junior Academy are committed to making a real difference to the lives of our young people and providing outstanding learning and enrichment opportunities for them throughout their time with us. To be able to achieve this, we need to have a team of dedicated and outstanding staff, who will contribute to our exceptional learning community.
We are seeking to appoint ambitious and enthusiastic Teaching Assistant, who will work with colleagues to support the learning and teaching of children in Waverley Junior Academy. The post-holder will support access to learning for pupils by assisting the teacher, including the preparation of resources, implementing agreed work programmes both within and outside of the classroom, and provide general support in the classroom across all key stages.
This role may be attractive to those who may already have experience of/or working with children in any setting and who may therefore have relevant skills and knowledge they wish to develop, or those who wish to commence their career in a Teaching Assistant role in a school environment.
Under the guidance of others, the Teaching Assistant will:
- Promote and support pupil access to the curriculum
- Support children in their learning
- Work with pupils individually or in groups
- Model and promote positive values, attitudes and behaviour
- Complete observations of their key worker children
- Encourage pupils to interact and work co-operatively with others, and to engage in classroom activities
- Encourage pupil to act independently as appropriate
This role is permanent for 30 hours per week. This includes 2 out of 5 INSET days each academic year as directed, with availability to work any or all of remaining 3 INSET days at short notice should the need arise, and for which additional payment will be made.
The role is based at Waverley Junior Academy but may, on occasion, involve working at other academies within the trust.
Further information about the job
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 Waverley Junior Academy
- School type
- Free School, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 533 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Waverley Junior Academy website
School location
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