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Year Support Assistant

Queen Elizabeth School, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU2 9AG

This job expired on 15 July 2024 – see similar jobs

• Closing date

  15 July 2024 at 10am

• Date listed

  28 June 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Dependant on experience

Year Support Assistant job summary

Be part of our journey…

Since relaunching in September 2021 with a new name and a new ethos, Queen Elizabeth School is quickly establishing itself as a centre for excellence. We are on a mission to “empower our students to achieve academic excellence through aspiration and innovation”. With the support of a highly ambitious leadership team and surrounded by colleagues who are passionate about the whole student experience, and with our new sixth form, QE6 which opened in September 2023, now is a fantastic time to join our forward thinking school.

Whatever their role in the school, all of our colleagues share a passion for learning and working with the next generation.

Situated on the Hertfordshire/Bedfordshire border and close to the market town of Hitchin, the school also benefits from being within 5 minutes drive of idyllic countryside locations, yet being 5 minutes from the M1 and London Luton Airport.

We are now looking to appoint a Year Support Assistant to join our team. This is an essential role in the school to ensure that our high expectations regarding the progress and welfare of our students are met, including student behaviour, attendance and pastoral support.

Find out more about Queen Elizabeth School, from the voices of our school community here https://www.qesluton.co.uk/Choose-QES/.

We welcome visits from all prospective staff to Queen Elizabeth School. To arrange a visit or book a telephone conversation to discuss the role further, please contact hr@qesluton.co.uk

Key duties

Responsibility for:

• behaviour and attitudes to learning

• monitoring student progress and standards of attainment

• students’ achievement and welfare

• effective communication with students, parents and colleagues

• supporting the welfare of students by taking breaktime or other supervisory duties

The successful candidate will

• Treat students with dignity, building relationships rooted in mutual respect

• Share our values of ambition, integrity, determination and kindness

• Hold an absolute commitment to exceptional standards

• Be a consummate professional

• Be a team player with an understanding that excellence can only be achieved by working together

QES staff all benefit from

• Working in a state of the art building with outstanding IT, sporting and performance facilities

• Excellent opportunities for progression- we will always seek to promote from within in the first instance

• Outstanding professional development opportunities, both from our internal CPD programme and through our partnership organisations

• Season ticket loan

• Use of our on site fitness suite

• Bike to Work Scheme

• Opportunities to support extra curricular activities domestically and internationally

• Ample staff parking and excellent transport links

• Subsidised staff accommodation available

Start date: As soon as possible

Salary: Dependant on experience

Job Role: Permanent, Full-time, Term time only

Hours: Full time hours, 8.00am – 4pm Monday - Friday.

Recruitment Timeline:

Position advertised: 28 June 2024

Closing date for applications: 15 July 2024, 10.00am

Interviews: TBC

We reserve the right to interview and appoint a suitable candidate before the deadline date.

Safeguarding

Queen Elizabeth School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service. We are an equal opportunities employer.

The Department for Education (DfE) has set out statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ for schools and colleges on safeguarding.

Safeguarding is defined in paragraph 4 as: “Protecting children from maltreatment; preventing impairment of children’s health or development; ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care; and taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes.”

The definition of 'children' includes everyone under the age of 18.

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 Queen Elizabeth School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1186 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Queen Elizabeth School website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/queen-elizabeth-school-luton (opens in new tab)

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