Teaching Assistant – Part Time – Maternity Cover

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Teaching Assistant
Part Time – Maternity Cover
Salary: Grade 3 – between £11,327 – £12,177pa (actual salary for part time term time hours)
Working hours: 8:30am-4pm, Monday-Wednesday, as per school’s term dates
Contract: FTC until 22 December 2023

Teaching Assistants make the education of their students their first concern, and are key to the students achieving the highest possible outcomes.

You will be a professional with the honesty and integrity at the centre of everything you do. With strong commitment to safeguarding students, you will be child-centred with high aspirations for those you support.

If you are hardworking, with a can-do attitude and a learning mind-set – you will be an ideal candidate for this most rewarding role!

This position will be based in our Early Years / KS1 team working with students with a range of complex needs. All students in the school have a diagnosis of autism and learning difficulties. In addition our younger students range from pre-verbal to verbal and you may need to support them with using PECS, communication boards or any AAC device. Our students also need support carrying out life skills and toileting.

The learning environment is a very important part of the teaching of our students. We follow the EYFS curriculum and plan our room environment according to this, giving students the opportunity to play independently or alongside others while the teachers observe, interact and plan next steps.

You will be allocated key children and your experience and knowledge is a vital part of feeding into their assessments and planning of next steps.

Experience working in an early years environment is essential for this role.

Previous school experience is not essential and applications are encouraged from those with transferrable skills from similar sectors such as early years or adult social care.

For the post advertised, you must:

  • Be able to meet key accountabilities set out in Job Description
  • Have experience and/or transferrable skills in this area
  • Be able to use ICT effectively
  • Have good organisational skills
  • Have good communication skills
  • Good levels of literacy and numeracy (Level 2 Maths and English or equivalent essential)

Closing date: Thursday 2nd February at 4pm

Apply now!