Teaching Care Assistant

Highfields Primary Academy, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, DN6 7JB

15 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  December 2024

• Closing date

  11 October 2024 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  19 September 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Early years, Key stage 1
• Working pattern: Part time: 27.5 hours a week, Monday to Friday
• Contract type: Fixed term - To 31/08/2024
• Full-time equivalent salary: £23,411 to 23,893
• Actual salary: 8095.48
• Pay scale: C4-6

What skills and experience we're looking for

As a Teaching / Care Assistant, you will provide one to one personal support for pupils with additional needs. You will provide special educational and/or medical support to ensure their successful engagement with and access to learning. You will need to maintain professional records and appropriate notes in relation to the individual pupil.

A good standard of written and numeracy skills • Experience of supporting a child with additional needs • Ability to support the medical and personal care needs of a child • Understanding of relevant policies/codes of practice • Understanding classroom roles and responsibilities and your own position within these • Good communication skills both oral and written • Ability to build trust with a pupil and their parents/carers • Experience of supporting and facilitating pupils learning and progress • Ability to use basic technology to support the role • Ability to build positive relationships with all stakeholders • Ability to work constructively as part of a team

What the school offers its staff

This is a fantastic opportunity to join an outstanding team within a high performing multi academy trust with exciting career prospects for successful applicants.

We offer an extensive range of opportunities, incentives and benefits with this post including:

• Holiday Entitlement: minimum 35 days(subject to pro rata if working part time and dependent upon salary and continuous service) including statutory Bank Holidays.
• Financial: offering unlimited access to a huge range of discounts on holidays, days out, retailer and cashback deals inc. Curry’s, John Lewis, Tesco and B&Q to name but a few.
• Lifestyle and Wellbeing :discounted & flexible gym memberships, eye care vouchers, cycle 2 work/Technology scheme, free annual flu jab and 24/7 access to a market leading Employee Assistance Programme providing expert information specialist advisors trained by Citizens Advice and access to professionally qualified counsellors accredited by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
• Motoring: access to an employee vehicle leasing scheme*,discounted vehicle repairs and discounts on car/van hire.
• Pension: excellent employer/employee contributory pension scheme with the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• Personal and professional: we offer a range of training and development opportunities for you to grow and develop.

*Subject to ensuring NMW is maintained.

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.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

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Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Highfields Primary Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 111 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Highfields Primary Academy website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: info@highfieldspa.org.uk
• Phone number: 01302 651037
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/highfields-primary-academy-doncaster (opens in new tab)

Highfields Primary Academy is a vibrant and caring primary school situated in Doncaster. Our teaching team is highly motivated and driven by a desire to raise standards and improve outcomes for all our children. Highfields is an area of high deprivation and many of our children struggle with early communication. At Highfields Primary we give the children a wide, language-rich curriculum which enriches their lives and enables them to set their own personal goals and achieve them through dedication and hard work. The commitment of the staff to deliver these ambitious aims creates a positive environment in which staff work collaboratively to support and discuss all aspect of the children’s learning in a creative and purposeful way. This ethos means that parents and children are welcomed into our school and positive attitudes are fostered by adults and children. Leaders mentor staff and model great practice in an open and encouraging way. As a result, there is a clear and ambitious vision of the school’s future which the whole school community work towards together.

Arranging a visit to Highfields Primary Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email info@highfieldspa.org.uk.

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