Teaching Assistant/Year Co-ordinator

St Richard's Catholic College, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, TN40 1SE

Deadline is tomorrow

• Job start date

  1 September 2023

• Closing date

  6 June 2023 at 5pm

• Date listed

  12 May 2023

Job details

• Job role:
  • Learning support, cover supervisor or tutor
• Working pattern:
  • Full time - Monday to Friday, term time only
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: Single Status

What skills and experience we're looking for

Experience of working as a Teaching Assistant (or equivalent) supporting pupils in a classroom environment, including those with special educational needs

Experience of using Information Technology to support pupils in the classroom

Ability to take a lead role in co-ordinating reviews of pupils’ progress, including liaising with other agencies as appropriate

Ability to produce accurate and up-to-date records and reports as required

Ability to undertake observations and assessments of pupils including those with special educational needs

Ability to differentiate learning resources to meet the complex needs of the pupils

What the school offers its staff

• We are a happy, thriving school community where respect for one another is key.
• Ours is a caring school. Visitors always comment on the calm, friendly and warm atmosphere of our school
• Facilities are excellent as well as vibrant.
• In spite of being a coastal school, we achieve strong outcomes for all groups of pupils.
• The staff are fantastic as are the pupils, parents and Governors.
• Your induction to the school will be first class, ensuring that you feel valued and a key contributor very early on.
• Enrichment is a huge strength of the school.
• You will be supported to develop your career here at St Richard’s.
• We have a strong programme of staff wellbeing/social events such as yoga sessions, sports activities, country walks, sketchbook circle, Christmas cake baking and decorating, Christmas decorations making and staff choir.
• We offer sports activities, weekend walks for the family and other staff events. We have so many activities as people genuinely care about each other and organise activities for the benefit of their colleagues.
• Bexhill is a lovely place in which to live and work with Hastings, Eastbourne and Brighton on the doorstep.

Commitment to safeguarding

St Richard's is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its pupils and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Applying for the job

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@strichardscc.com

Upload additional documents

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About St Richard's Catholic College

• School type: Local authority maintained school, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1043 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: St Richard's Catholic College website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: recruitment@strichardscc.com
• Phone number: 01424 731070
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-richard-s-catholic-college (opens in new tab)

St Richard’s is a co-educational Catholic school offering an inclusive Christian education to pupils of all abilities from the ages of 11 to 16 years. It is our aim to encourage, support and develop every pupil in our care academically, socially and spiritually. All children are unique and precious individuals with different talents and aspirations, and our efforts are directed into ensuring that they feel both valued and challenged. We have high academic standards at St Richard's, as our GCSE results consistently testify. We expect our pupils to work hard, behave well, dress smartly and pursue excellence in all that they do inside and outside of the classroom. We also aim to provide a happy, caring and safe environment in which pupils can learn and develop into rounded, responsible and confident members of the community. Our efforts have not gone unnoticed. We are a Specialist Science College with High performing Specialist School status. We have a Prince’s Teaching Institute Art Mark, Leading Edge status, Fairtrade Fair Achiever Award status, an Artsmark Gold Award, a Space Education Quality Mark, Green Flag Eco-Schools Award and Investors in Careers at the highest level. Our last Diocesan Inspection (November 2018) and interim inspection (2021) graded the school Outstanding. During the academic year 2018-19, the SSAT awarded the school Exceptional Education Awards at Transforming Level in: ‘Engagement with Key Stakeholders’, ‘Climate for Learning’ and ‘Leadership through Moral Purpose’. In 2019-20, the SSAT awarded the school two further Exceptional Education Awards at Transforming Level in ‘Professional Development’ and a ‘Variety of Teaching Approaches’. In 2020-21, the SSAT awarded the school another Exceptional Education Award at Transforming level in Wellbeing. An OFSTED inspection in October 2021 graded the school outstanding in ‘Behaviour and Attitudes’, ‘Personal Development’ and ‘Leadership and Management’.

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