Literacy & Functional Skills Teaching Assistant

Allscreens Nationwide Ltd; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 17,000 - 21,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Local Government Pension Scheme

Generous annual leave

Cycle to work Scheme

Employee wellbeing and assistance

Employee benefits platform

Job summary

Colonel Frank Seely Academy is seeking a Literacy & Functional Skills Teaching Assistant to join its established learning support team. The role focuses on supporting students with a wide range of SEND and promoting welfare and wellbeing.

The successful candidate will work under the SENDCo and a supportive team, with opportunities for progression within SEND, CPD, and development into a secondary environment. The academy offers inclusion-focused duties and a commitment to safeguarding.

Qualifications

• Experience with students with SEND is essential.
• Desire to work with young people and support welfare and wellbeing.
• Willingness to progress to a secondary environment within SEND and CPD opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate greater inclusion and remove barriers for students with identified or moving towards SEN support.

Job description

Literacy & Functional Skills Teaching Assistant

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are looking for a suitably qualified and enthusiastic Literacy & Functional Skills Teaching Assistant to join our established learning support team. Experience in working with students with a wide range of SEND and a desire to work with young people in supporting their welfare and wellbeing is essential.

The Learning Support department at Colonel Frank Seely Academy is managed by the SENDCo with support from a team of Teaching Assistants who are supportive, caring and passionate. We are looking to appoint a Literacy & Functional Skills Teaching Assistant to further enrich the team. We are looking for someone who is kind, dedicated and hard working from any educational background and any key stage that wishes to progress to a secondary environment within SEND. There is a pathway for progression within this role and CPD to support within it. The role is primarily to facilitate greater inclusion and remove barriers for students with identified or moving towards being identified as requiring SEN support.

What the school offers its staff

Colonel Frank Seely Academy is part of Redhill Academy Trust. The Academy is also a member of Redhill College of Leadership and Development and as such there are excellent CPD opportunities for further information please visit the website.

• Access to Local Government Pension Scheme
• Generous annual leave entitlement increasing with service, plus statutory holidays
• The opportunity to be part of a highly supportive and ambitious team/school
• Recognised continuous local government service for annual leave entitlement, Occupational Maternity/ Paternity pay
• Cycle to work Scheme
• Commitment to employee Health and Wellbeing including Employee Assistance Programme
• Employee benefits platform

Commitment to safeguarding

As Redhill Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding children practices, any appointment will be subject to an enhanced DBS and Child barred list checks, candidate online search and successful references.