Inclusion Teaching Assistant (Fixed Term Contract - 26 hrs p/w)

The Cherwell School; Packmoor; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

The Cherwell School in Oxford is seeking an Inclusion Teaching Assistant to work alongside our Lead Inclusion Teacher, providing targeted in-class support to help students access foundational learning. The role also involves leading highly structured small-group interventions as directed by the teacher.

We are a high-performing comprehensive school with a strong focus on opportunity, responsibility and excellence.

Responsibilities

• Work with the Lead Inclusion Teacher to provide targeted, in-class support to help students access foundational learning.
• Lead highly structured small-group interventions as directed by the teacher.

Job description

The Cherwell School are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, calm and motivated Inclusion Teaching Assistant. The successful candidate will work side-by-side with our Lead Inclusion Teacher to provide targeted, in-class support to help students access foundational learning and to lead highly structured small-group interventions as directed by the teacher. This role will play a vital part in building students’ academic confidence, life skills and independence.

About our school

We are a high performing and oversubscribed comprehensive school in Oxford with approximately 2,000 students on roll, including 680 in the Sixth Form. We are delighted that we were judged ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted (October 2022), as we feel this is a fair reflection of the school, not least as we recognize that we have the capacity to develop and improve further. We consider ourselves to be a school which has at its heart “opportunity, responsibility, excellence” and we aim to make this a deeper reality for all of our students and staff in the years to come.

Education has the power to change lives, communities and society for the better. At RLT we believe that we can achieve more for our pupils, trainees, staff and communities by working together rather than alone. Schools in RLT are united by a common belief in the benefits of working together, and by our commitment to shared principles.

OUR VISION

is for our schools and SCITT to improve rapidly, continuously and sustainably: to be better faster together.

OUR ‘WHY’

is that children and young people ‘only get one go’ in school and therefore as part of RLT we aim to ensure the best possible ‘go’ for our pupils.

OUR ‘HOW’

is through the highest support and challenge for our schools and each other, underpinned by our principles.

• Our employees benefit from a wide variety of support including extensive continuing professional learning and development opportunities, wellbeing and staff networks and access to Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (TPS and LGPS) for all staff.

This role includes regulated activity relevant to children.

The River Learning Trust and The Cherwell School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. The Trust is required to conduct a variety of checks and online searches about you as part of their recruitment process in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. It is an offence to apply for certain roles within schools if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. For further guidance for applicants click on this link List of offences that are not filtered