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Skill Specific Teaching Assistant to work within our Inclusion Hub (The Pod)
Salary Scale: Grade D Point 5
£12.18 per hour
Actual Salary: £16,710 based on less than 5 years continuous service – (FTE £23,500)
Term Time only: 38 weeks (43.9 paid weeks per year) – 31.25 hrs per week, 8.30 – 3.15 Monday-Friday.
Temporary Fixed term from September 2024 until August 2025
We have an exciting opportunity for a highly skilled, dedicated and effective Teaching Assistant to support children with complex communication needs in all ages across Years R – 4.
The post will involve working within our Inclusion Hub as part of our mainstream school. You would work alongside a Lead Teacher, a HLTA and additional teaching assistants in a stimulating and varied environment.
The successful candidate will be a skilled individual who would be able to be flexible and creative in their approach to working with children.
The successful candidate will need to:
- be a willing learner experienced in working with primary aged children
- demonstrate the ability to understand children’s learning and behavioural needs and adapt accordingly.
- hold a relevant qualification, or be willing to undertake relevant training
- demonstrate, through practice, their knowledge and understanding of complex communication needs and appropriate planning, monitoring and assessment to support those needs.
- We are keen to develop our Forest School opportunities within the school so forest school qualification would be desirable but not essential.
We have high expectations of all staff and visits to the school are warmly welcomed. For further information to support the application please visit www.parley.dorset.sch.uk.
Parley First School is part of the Castleman Academy Trust – a Trust which prides itself on putting children first and puts its values of Respect, Independence, Creativity and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do.
It is the staff in our academies who make our schools vibrant places of learning, who do all they can to make sure our children become confident individuals, successful learners and responsible citizens. Our staff want to make a real difference to the lives of the children they work with and are learners themselves who relish professional development opportunities.
Working in a Castleman Academy Trust school you will be working with other forward thinkers, who see possibilities and are optimistic. You will have the support of like-minded colleagues and together we will ensure everyone has a great work life balance. Being part of the Castleman Academy Trust means there are a whole host of opportunities for you to develop and flourish.
Parley First School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people; this is a commitment which we expect all staff and volunteers to share.
Closing date for applications: 3rd May 2024
Interviews: 15th May 2024
If you wish to apply, please complete an online application form and send to: office@parley.dorset.sch.uk before the above closing date.
If you do not hear from us by 9th May then please assume your application has been unsuccessful but we would like to thank you very much for taking the time to apply.
The Castleman Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
The successful candidate will be required to demonstrate that they meet the essential elements of the person specification and will be subject to pre-employment checks including an Enhanced DBS Check, Child Barred List check, satisfactory references and a health check and, where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants.
An online check will also be conducted on all shortlisted applicants. This check will form part of a safeguarding check, and the search will purely be based on whether an individual is suitable to work with children. As care must be taken to avoid unconscious bias and any risk of discrimination, a person who will not be on the appointment panel will conduct the search and will only share information if and when findings are relevant and of concern.
This role is UK based and your Right to Work will need to be established as part of the appointment process
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (2013 and 2020)) provide that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. The Ministry of Justice guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide via https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974 .
Please note that CV’s are not accepted.
The Castleman Academy Trust’s Recruitment Privacy Notice can be found at https://www.castlemanacademytrust.co.uk/information/current-vacancies/