General Teaching Assistant/Higher Level Teaching Assistant

Teaching Vacancies; Leeds; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

An educational institution in the United Kingdom is seeking a Higher Level Teaching Assistant with a strong commitment to supporting students with SEN experience. The successful candidate will work closely with the Headteacher and other staff to enhance teaching standards and encourage children's progress. Responsibilities include supervising children during lunch and playtime in a caring, secure environment while contributing positively to school life. The school promotes a nurturing atmosphere where every child can flourish.

Qualifications

• Enthusiastic and caring individual passionate about supporting children's learning.
• Commitment to high standards of teaching and child safeguarding.
• Ability to work collaboratively with staff and parents.

Responsibilities

• Supervise children in the lunch hall and playground.
• Support Headteacher, SENCO, and Classroom Teachers.
• Help pupils make progress and reach their full potential.

Skills

SEN experience

Team player

Ability to develop relationships

Job description

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are seeking to appoint a Higher Level Teaching Assistant with SEN experience who is enthusiastic, caring, flexible and inspiring to work under the direction of our Headteacher, SENCO and Classroom Teachers. We need someone who is a strong team player and wants to contribute to all aspects of school life. The successful candidate will demonstrate a positive approach with the main aim of helping pupils to continue to make progress and reach their full potential. They should have a commitment to supporting high standards of teaching and learning, be keen to work as part of a close team, as well as have the ability to develop warm relationships with children, colleagues and parents.

As an MSA you will be required to supervise children in the lunch hall and in the playground to ensure a positive, caring and safe environment.

What the school offers its staff

Our vision at Thorner C. of E. Primary School is to inspire, develop and nurture all of our children, rooted in a strong sense of belonging, enabling them to flourish, succeed and go forward into the world with the skills, compassion and resilience to make a positive difference.

Commitment to safeguarding

Elevate Multi Academy Trust (Elevate) is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children within its family of Academies. It expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Elevate and its Academies believe that the child’s welfare is always of paramount concern, and that all children have a right to be protected from abuse regardless of their age, gender, disability, culture, language, racial origin, religious belief or sexual identity. All suspicions and allegations of abuse will be taken seriously and responded to swiftly and appropriately in accordance with Elevate’s Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy.