Teaching Assistant (Year 2)
Westover Green Community School and Autism Centre, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA6 7HB15 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
23 February 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
7 February 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Actual salary
- Grade 3 SCP 5 - 6 (Actual salary SCP 5 £17,587.56)
What skills and experience we're looking for
What You’ll Bring to Futura
We are looking for a passionate Teaching Assistant who:
- Can build strong, positive relationships with children, acting as a role model and encouraging independence, confidence, and self-esteem.
- Supports pupils in engaging with learning, both in the classroom and in small groups, adapting to their individual needs and promoting inclusion.
- Assists in implementing individual education and behaviour plans, helping pupils develop key skills while providing feedback on progress.
- Works collaboratively with teachers, helping to prepare learning activities, support classroom organisation, and contribute to lesson planning.
- Communicates effectively with parents, carers, and other professionals to support pupils' development and wellbeing.
- Supervises pupils during non-classroom activities, including lunchtimes, school trips, and transitions, ensuring their safety and positive engagement.
What the school offers its staff
What We Offer to Support Your Growth
- Professional Growth: Continuous Professional Development (CPD), inset days, rotation and secondment opportunities, and leadership succession programmes.
- Wellbeing Support: Initiatives like ‘Wellbeing Moments,’ flexible working arrangements, and access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for mental health support.
- Comprehensive Benefits: Generous defined pension schemes, Health Cash-back Plan (covering dentist, physiotherapy appointments etc.), and multiple retail discount schemes.
- Sustainability Commitment: Reducing our carbon footprint through our Climate and Nature initiatives across all schools.
- Inclusive Culture: A collaborative environment where diversity is celebrated, helping staff bring their best selves to work and thrive in their roles.
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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About Westover Green Community School and Autism Centre
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 405 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
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- Email address
- bpattenden@futuralearning.co.uk
Westover Green Community School & Autism Centre caters for children between the ages of 4 and 11 and is set in the historic market town of Bridgwater, just a few miles off Junction 24 of the M5.
Our School Motto is “Opening the gates to learning” and we endeavour to realise this in all we do. We believe, in line with the philosophy of the national curriculum, that all children have equal entitlement to a broad and balanced curriculum.
MISSION STATEMENT
" To provide a safe, enjoyable and motivational environment where all children and adults are respected, accepted, valued and included, enabling children and adults, as individuals, to confidently and successfully achieve their full potential "
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