Graduate Teaching Assistant

Teaching Vacancies; London Borough of Bromley; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 23,000; Part time

Job summary

Harris Girls' Academy Bromley is seeking a Graduate Teaching Assistant to support individuals and groups of students, enabling access to learning and helping maintain a purposeful, nurturing environment. You will assist in lesson activities, help develop resources and schemes of work with teaching staff, monitor progress, provide feedback, and support behaviour management to ensure every student can learn effectively.

All offers are subject to safeguarding checks, including DBS.

Qualifications

• Qualifications to degree level or equivalent.
• Knowledge of strategies for working with young people with challenging behaviours.
• Awareness of social issues facing students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
• Health and safety awareness in the workplace.
• Experience of working with young people in an education or training environment.
• Ability to establish positive relationships with a range of stakeholders.
• Experience of managing own workload.

Responsibilities

• 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 resources, schemes of work and teaching strategies with the teacher.
• Assisting in evaluating students' progress through agreed assessment activities.
• Providing detailed and regular feedback to teachers on students' achievement, progress and needs.
• Leading 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 and adjusting activities to meet goals.

Skills

Degree-level qualification

Behaviour management

Young people engagement

Safeguarding awareness

Education experience

Stakeholder relationships

Workload management

Education

Degree level qualification or equivalent

Job description

What skills and experience we're looking for

Harris Girls' Academy Bromley is looking for a Graduate 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 £21,942 -£22,255 (39 weeks per year, 33 hours 35 minutes 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

Harris Girls' Academy Bromley is a thriving, diverse and academically successful school for girls in New Beckenham. Our GCSE results are amongst the best in the country with progress being amongst the most successful schools nationally. We passionately believe in educating young women for the future and with specialisms in Science and Enterprise we are working hard to create opportunities for girls to be successful in English and maths as well as more traditional subjects like Classics and Latin.

Along with other single sex schools in Beckenham, we welcome boys and girls to join us in the Sixth Form and we are very proud of the contribution that they both make to the school. We are also founding members of the highly successful Harris Federation Sixth Form.

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 to senior leadership. We look for talented individuals who share our vision for creating exceptional places of learning, and are committed to ensuring that every child in London has access to the best possible education. In addition to the opportunities for career progression, training and development, 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, a Wellbeing Cash Plan and many other benefits.

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 needs
• Leading 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.