Teaching Assistant with MDSA
Christ The King Catholic School, Amesbury, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP4 7LX15 days remaining to apply
Start date details
January 2025
Closing date
6 January 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
20 November 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time, full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £23,114.00 - £23,893.00 Annually (Actual) Grade D (30 Hours) Grade B (2.5 Hours)
Teaching Assistant with MDSA job summary
Teaching Assistant with MDSA role
Start Date: January 2025
Closing Date: 06 January 2025
Interview Date: 13 January 2025
Salary Range: TA role Grade D / Midday supervisor Grade B
Hours: 32.5 Fixed Term until Aug 25 and 32.5 Permanent
Responsible to: Headteacher/Senior Leadership Team
Christ the King Catholic School are seeking to employ a dedicated Teaching Assistant with an MDSA role to join our dedicated, passionate and caring team.We have two positions available one full time fixed term until Aug 25 one full time permanentboth commencing in January 2025. Our small and friendly school welcomes applications from candidates of all faiths and none, who are enthusiastic about working in a school where children are at the heart of all we do and our vision is rooted in the Catholic values of respect, resilience, stewardship, curiosity, forgiveness and love.
Skills and Experience:
- Knowledge of how to incorporate visual and concrete resources into planning to support learning (use of total communication) would be of use.
- Ability to take responsibility for creating a spiralised curriculum incorporating opportunities to revisit learning regularly.
- Experience of Emotional Literacy or Mental Health needs within children.
- Ability to work in a team to support and create the best experience for children to enable them to meet their full potential.
- Be flexible to do a range of tasks and to use own initiative when required.
- Good literacy and numeracy skills (GCSE or ‘O’ Level Grade C or above or equivalent).
- Work within, and act upon, the advice of class teacher and SENDCo.
- Have experience of working with children.
- Be an excellent communicator and team player.
- Work within our school’s rigorous safeguarding policies and procedures.
- Remain calm, confidential and professional in all situations.
Willing to work well as part of a dedicated team of both MDSAs and Teaching assistants to support lunch time play as well as undertaking supervisory activities. These activites would include:
- Leading children’s games and play so that they become more physically active during our lunch hour.
- Encouraging children to include each other in play
- Supporting the school’s Sports Leaders to facilitate play with their peers
- Helping children to resolve disagreements independently
- Addressing incidents of poor behaviour choices
- Familiar with the need to safeguard children and understand its importance.
- Willing to support the Catholic ethos of the school.
In addition, there may also be times where the post holder may need to carry out a variety of supervisory duties that will include:
- Setting up / clearing away the lunch hall.
- Clear spillages and cleaning the floor.
- Helping children with their lunches e.g cutting food.
- Encouraging children to eat their lunches
- Minor first aid incidents
- Other tasks as specified by the school’s leadership team or senior MDSA
We can offer you:
- The support needed to continue your own professional development.
- The opportunity to work with a close-knit, enthusiastic and hard-working team of staff who are committed to providing the very best for each individual in their care.
- The opportunity to inspire our caring and highly-motivated children through engaging learning .
Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to close advert if a suitable candidate is found.
Visits to our school are warmly welcomed and encouraged. Please contact the school directly on 01980 622039 to arrange an appointment.
For a full application pack please contact the office on recruitment@thedcet.com
The Dunstan Catholic Educational Trust (DCET) is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children. All staff are expected to share this commitment. The post is subject to an enhanced disclosure application and satisfactory references.
Commitment to safeguarding
Christ the King Catholic School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and equal opportunities in employment and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
All applicants will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service check before appointment is confirmed.
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 Christ The King Catholic School, Amesbury
- School type
- Academy, Catholic, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 117 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
At Christ the King you will find a supportive and inclusive team of staff who have excellent relationships with each other and the children in our school. Our school values are rooted in kindness and care through showing love for one another, an ethos that you will get an immediate sense of as soon as you walk through the school doors. Working at Christ the King allows our staff to not only have a community facing role where we strive to build and sustain positive relationships, but the majority of our roles are term-time only, which suit those seeking to find the balance between work and family life.
Our school is proud to be part of The Dunstan Catholic Educational Trust (DCET), a multi-academy trust of Catholic schools across Clifton Diocese. This valuable partnership allows our school and staff the support and professional development opportunities of working collaboratively across a community of schools, whilst maintaining our own distinct school identity.
Although we are Catholic School, we welcome applications from all members of the community - of all faiths and none. We do ask that those who work in our school support our Christian values.
Practically, Christ the King has excellent access situated in the heart of Amesbury, with links to both the A303 and A345: commutes by car from Salisbury or Andover take no more than 20minutes.
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