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Job Vacancy - Teaching Assistant
CLOSING DATE: Friday 24th January 2025 12 noon – To start February 2025
Job title: Teaching Assistants SEND support
Responsible to :SLT – HLTA
Hours of Work: 20 hours per week/38 weeks per year (8.45am – 12.45pm)
Pay Rate: Depending on experience – grade B-C
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic teaching assistant to work at our wonderful village school. We offer you the opportunity to join a hardworking, supportive team of staff; enthusiastic children and parents all within a beautiful, rural setting.
This vacancy will require you to work alongside a child to support them with accessing their education and ensuring they are meeting the personal targets set for them. The ability to quickly form a positive working relationship with the family is vital. Previous experience of working with pupils with additional needs is desirable.
You will have initiative and be a confident communicator, with effective numeracy and literacy skills and some knowledge of the primary national curriculum.
The role will include supporting the child through part of their physical breaks, lunch times and their independent learning times and learning interventions.
The working hours for the teaching assistant post will be 08.45 – 12:45 Monday to Friday
*There is potential for these roles to be flexible, please ask for more details
The ideal candidate will have:
- Excellent interpersonal skills, interaction, team work and organisation will be desirable for this role.
To apply, you will be:
- A reliable, committed and enthusiastic individual who enjoys and cares about working with children and adults
- experienced in working as a TA or other support role within a primary school
- able to manage set tasks independently and use initiative
- flexible
- proven to be a team player
- proven to contribute to the wider school community
- Qualifed to GCSE level in Maths and English
- Knowledgable about keeping children safe
Visits to the school are welcome, please contact the school office on 01805 601354 or by emailing: admin@langtree-school.org
Closing date for applications: Friday 24th January Interview date: TBC
Start date: 3rd/10th February 2025
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. A DBS disclosure is required for this post.