Teaching Assistants - one part time and one full time
Pencalenick School, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 1TEThis job expired on 14 April 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible following successful interview
Closing date
14 April 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
18 March 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time, part time: Permanent variable, 31.25 hours per week, 39 working weeks per year plus holidays (45.4506 paid weeks per year). 31.25 hours: Monday to Friday 8:30am – 3.15pm. Actual salary: £17,374.16 per annum. 18.75 hours: Wednesday to Friday 8:30am – 3.15pm. Actual salary: £10,425.10 per annum.
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £23,600
What skills and experience we're looking for
Please note that these roles are based at Falmouth ARB within Falmouth Primary Academy, Jubilee Road, Falmouth, TR11 2BB.
We are looking for someone with initiative and a willingness to become an active member of our friendly and professional ARB, where meeting the learning potential of our students is our highest priority. The successful candidate will be required to work alongside class teachers and teaching assistants and to follow any recommendations/guidance from multi agency teams. Experience of supporting students with complex and multiple learning needs or disabilities is a must, along with the confidence to manage emotional or behavioural difficulty.
The successful candidate will have:
- A minimum of two years relevant experience working with children, preferably in an educational setting
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- A good understanding of safeguarding children
- High quality planning, annotation and recording skills
- An ability to work on their own initiative and be self-motivated.
What the school offers its staff
In return, as well as your salary, the following benefits would form part of your total reward:
- 37 days paid holiday (including bank holidays) from start of employment with the Trust
- Local Government or Teachers Pensions Scheme with generous employer contributions and Death in Service benefits
- Employees Assistance Programme to support staff wellbeing
- Discounts on new O2 phone contracts and access to ‘Extra Special’, the Trust’s employee benefits and perks hub, which included hundreds of retailer discounts and wellbeing portal
- Discounted gym memberships with Better Leisure
- SmartTech (ability to purchase electrical goods and pay back via salary)
- Travel Accounts (soon to be launched, ability to purchase holidays and pay back via salary)
- Simply Health Optimise Health Plan (providing opportunity for staff and their children to claim back healthcare costs, such as: Optician, Dentist, Osteopath, Physiotherapist, Chiropodist, Consultant fees, prescription charges)
- Occupational Health Support – including a 24/7 Thrive App
- Long Service Awards Vouchers
- Learning & Development/CPD opportunities
- Emergency Leave days
- Bike 2 Work Scheme
- Microsoft Office 365 Licences, you are able to use your work account to use excel, word and office packages on your home computer
- Eye Test Reimbursements
- First Aid & Fire Warden Allowances
Commitment to safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding children and the successful applicant will be required to undertake an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Applicants should also be aware that an online search will be undertaken for all shortlisted candidates.
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About Pencalenick School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 16
- School size
- 177 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Pencalenick School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- admin@pencalenick.org
- Phone number
- 01872520385
Pencalenick School is a vibrant and progressive SEN school based in Cornwall providing high quality education and support for pupils aged 11-16 with complex learning difficulties and disabilities. Pencalenick School also has the benefit of four outreach Area Resource Bases (ARBs) which are based within mainstream schools at Budehaven, Brannel, Falmouth and Mount Charles. Two of our ARBs offer primary provision and two offer secondary provision.
Pencalenick School and the ARBs are members of the Special Partnership Trust, an ambitious and inspiring collaboration of specialist provision in Cornwall, with a focus on excellence in learning for everyone.
Arranging a visit to Pencalenick School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email admin@pencalenick.org.
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