Teaching Assistant

Teaching Vacancies; Sutton No. 103; Vor Ort; CAD 46.000 - 47.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Harris Allowance for teachers on MPS//

Annual Loyalty Bonus

Pension Scheme with employer contrib.

Wellbeing Cash Plan

Zusammenfassung

Harris Academy Sutton is seeking a Teaching Assistant to support individuals and groups, enabling access to learning within a nurturing environment. You will help develop resources, support learning goals, and contribute to positive student outcomes.

The role emphasizes safeguarding, collaboration with teachers, and flexible workload management in a busy school setting near Sutton. Experience with young people in education is essential.

Qualifikationen

• Degree level or equivalent.
• Knowledge of strategies for working with young people with challenging behaviours.
• Awareness of social issues facing students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
• Awareness of Health and Safety issues in the workplace.
• Experience of working directly with young people in an education or training environment, supporting learners.
• Experience of establishing and maintaining positive working relationships with a range of stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience of managing and being responsible for own workload.

Aufgaben

• Supervising and supporting identified students in 1:1, group or whole class settings to ensure safety and access to learning.
• Assisting in developing resources, schemes of work and teaching strategies.
• Assisting in evaluating students' progress through agreed assessments.
• Providing detailed feedback to teachers on student achievement and needs; leading small group sessions as appropriate.
• Addressing students' personal needs as required.
• Supporting behaviour management in line with academy policy.
• Contributing to a purposeful and supportive learning environment.
• Undertaking structured learning activities and adjusting as needed to achieve goals.

Kenntnisse

Experience with young people

Stakeholder relations

Workload management

Health and safety awareness

Ausbildung

Degree level or equivalent

Jobbeschreibung

What skills and experience we're looking for

Harris Academy Sutton is looking for a Teaching Assistant to support individuals and groups of students to enable access to learning, contributing to the development and maintenance of a purposeful, nurturing learning environment.

The actual salary for this role will be £24,854.82- £25,210.47 (38 weeks per year, 37.5 hours per week).

We would like to hear from you if you have:

• Qualifications to degree level or equivalent
• Some knowledge of strategies in working with young people with challenging behaviours
• Knowledge of some of the social issues facing students from disadvantaged backgrounds
• Awareness of Health and Safety issues in the workplace.
• Experience of working directly with young people in an education or training environment, supporting the learning of students.
• Experience of establishing and maintaining positive working relationships with a range of stakeholders, at all levels.
• Experience of managing and being responsible for own workload.

For a full job description and person specification, please download the Job Pack.

What the school offers its staff

Join our success:

• Judged 'Outstanding' in all categories by Ofsted (Feb 2023), more information here: https://www.harrissutton.org.uk/469/ofsted
• Progress 8 scores of +1.10 & +0.91 in our first two sets of GCSE results (2023 and 2024)
• Attainment 8 scores of 60.6, 59.9, 58.2, 58.7.
• High achieving sixth form with multiple Russell Group Alumni (including University of Cambridge, Durham University and London School of Economics)
• Hugely oversubscribed in both Year 7 and Year 12, the 'Comprehensive of Choice' in a borough with several grammar schools.

Our staff

We believe that a happy and settled staff body helps drive the very best performance from our students. We are committed to a high-quality professional development programme and can draw on expertise from across the Harris Federation. As a HASU member of staff at any level you will receive the training and support that you need to carry out your role effectively and develop at a pace that suits you.

We are committed to ensuring that our staff have the right level of balance between work and home life. Our policies and procedures are aimed at allowing our teaching staff to spend as much time as possible planning and delivering lessons. We work in an award-winning building with excellent facilities.

Our students

We run a broad and diverse curriculum to a fully comprehensive intake of students.

Our focus on the core value of Integrity means that our behaviour is excellent, with staff supported by a strong and highly visible Academy Leadership Group. Detentions are run centrally, allowing teaching staff to do what they do best: plan and teach amazing lessons.

We are located in Sutton, with good public transport and road links. Central London (Clapham, Victoria) is 25 minutes away. Belmont station is just an 8-minute walk and Sutton station a 12-minute walk. We are on the Surrey border so journeys do not take long in fact journeys from Kent only take just over 30 minutes by car. We have safe and secure onsite parking with electric charging points.

Other benefits of working for us

• Regular dialogue about workload and how to manage it effectively
• Protected time for examiners
• Internal promotion and progression opportunities
• Clear communication and manageable deadlines
• High-quality staff induction programme
• Regular recognition and celebration of staff excellence
• Exemplary student behaviour
• All SLT teach
• Fully centralised behaviour system including rapid and effective support with any student behavioural issues
• Attendance and engagement with learning is high, and centrally planned tutor time resources ensure that our tutors can engage with students whilst delivering high-quality experiences.

Our people are at the heart of our success. We have developed a strong culture of collaboration and best practice, with professional development and career planning at its centre. We invest in our staff with support, coaching, mentoring, and a wide range of top-quality training programmes delivered at every level.

In addition to the opportunities for career development and progression, we also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package which includes our Harris Allowance for teachers on MPS/UPS, an Annual Loyalty Bonus, Pension Scheme with generous employer contributions, a Wellbeing Cash Plan and many other benefits. Learn more about our benefits on our website.

Further details about the role

Your responsibilities will include:

• Supervising and supporting identified students, in 1:1, group or whole class situations, ensuring their safety and access to learning
• Assisting in the development of appropriate resources, schemes of work and teaching strategies, working with the teacher to ensure the provision supports each identified student's learning needs
• Assisting in evaluating identified students' progress through agreed assessment activities
• Providing detailed and regular feedback to teachers on students' achievement, progress and needsLeading small group sessions and interventions as appropriate
• Attending to the students' personal needs where required
• Supporting with behaviour management, using appropriate strategies in line with academy policy
• Contributing to creating a purposeful and supportive learning environment
• Undertaking structured and agreed learning activities/teaching programmes as appropriate, adjusting activities to ensure achievement of learning goals

Commitment to safeguarding

The Harris Federation and all our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, references, an online search, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed.