Educational Teaching Assistant - Ravenshall School

Kirklees Council; Dewsbury; Presencial; GBP 18.000 - 23.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

CPD opportunities

Well-resourced environment

Supportive leadership

Descripción de la vacante

Ravenshall School, a specialist setting in Dewsbury, is seeking enthusiastic Educational Teaching Assistants to work across all Key Stages, including Post 16. The role suits candidates from mainstream backgrounds or those with SEN experience, with in-house CPD and strong team support.

The school values high standards, positive behaviour, and collaborative working. It offers bespoke CPD and a commitment to safeguarding, aligning with its ethos of All Different, All Equal, All Important.

Formación

• Excellent practitioner with high standards and expectations.
• Strong engagement strategies to support engagement for learning approaches.
• Highly motivated professional and a team player with drive and vision.
• Excellent communicator with good interpersonal skills.

Conocimientos

Excellent practitioner

Engagement strategies

Team player

Excellent communicator

Descripción del empleo

There may be an option to work a third day.

This will be discussed as part of the recruitment process.

Ravenshall School is seeking to appoint enthusiastic and committed Educational Teaching Assistants to work in our “Exceptional School” (Ofsted, 2024)

Our outstandingspecial school caters for pupils aged 4 – 19 who have learning difficulties and a wide range of complex needs.

We provide a broad, balanced, personalised and fully engaging curriculum which will enable each child to develop emotionally, socially, physically and intellectually to achieve their full potential through a wide range of learning opportunities. Our pupils are enthusiastic and love coming to school. They expect a lot from the adults that work with them!

The successful candidate will have a passion for Special Educational Needs and a firm understanding of positive behaviour support strategies, understand and commit to the school’s values and be able to work within our strong team of support staff.

Our ETAs work across all Key Stages – including Post 16.

Applications are welcome from candidates who have a mainstream background as well as those currently working within a Special Education setting, as we offer high quality in-house support and CPD for successful candidates joining our forward-facing school.

This is an exciting opportunity for a colleague to extend and develop their CPD in new and innovative ways.

We look forward to hearing from you if you are:

• An excellent practitioner, able to set and achieve high standards and expectations
• Have a strong understanding of engagement strategies to support engagement for learning approaches
• A highly motivated professional and a team player with drive and vision
• An excellent communicator with good interpersonal skills

In return we can offer:

• A school which values and invests in all our staff by providing a range of bespoke CPD opportunities to enable you to meet all our pupil needs
• A well-resourced and enjoyable working environment which cares for and values every staff member
• A supportive and collaborative leadership team who welcome new ideas and innovation
• A school committed to raising standards which has children and young people at the heart of our maxim “All Different, All Equal, All Important”

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All staff are subject to an enhanced DBS check. A conviction may not exclude candidates from appointment but will be considered as part of the recruitment process.