SEND Teaching Assistant

Temple Normanton Primary Academy; Chesterfield; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 23,000; Full time

Job summary

Temple Normanton Primary Academy is seeking a proactive Teaching Assistant to support learning across all abilities. The role involves working with classes, groups and individuals, promoting positive behaviour and assisting pupils to access the curriculum under the guidance of senior inclusion leads.

Applicants may be graduates seeking experience in education. The post is linked to safeguarding and inclusion policies and may involve duties across partner academies within ACET.

Qualifications

• Experience working with children or in educational settings.
• Good understanding of how children develop and learn.
• Willingness to be fully involved in academy life and activities.

Responsibilities

• Promote and support pupil access to the curriculum.
• Support children in their learning.
• Work with class groups, small groups and individuals.
• Model and promote positive values, attitudes and behaviour.
• Act as a keyworker and be committed to CPDL (CPD).
• Work across SEND and Inclusion to meet learners' needs.

Skills

Experience with children

Understanding child development

Teamwork with pupils

Education

Graduate

Job description

ACET is a forward thinking and rapidly developing multi-academy trust. We are seeking to appoint an ambitious and enthusiastic Teaching Assistant to support the learning and teaching of children and young people.

This role may be attractive to those who may already have experience of / or working with children in any setting and who may therefore have relevant skills and knowledge they wish to develop; the applicant must have a good understanding of how children develop and learn. Applications are welcome from graduates seeking to gain experience in an educational environment.

Under the guidance of Senior Inclusion Leads the Teaching Assistant will:

Promote and support student/pupil access to the curriculum

Support children in their learning

Work with class groups, small groups and individuals

Model and promote positive values, attitudes and behaviour

Have a willingness to by fully involved in the life of the academy

Act as a keyworker

Be committed to CPDL

You will be expected to work across all areas of SEND and Inclusion in order to meet the needs of all learners

This post will continue for the duration that the pupil remains on roll at Temple Normanton Primary Academy. The post will be reviewed annually in line with the pupil's annual review.

The role is based at Temple Normanton Primary Academy, but you may be required to work in other academies within the trust.

Safeguarding

ACET is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

All applicants should read our safeguarding Policy and Safer Recruitment Policy, which are available on the ‘policy’ section of our academy websites.

It is an offence to seek employment in regulated activity if you are barred from working with children. This post will involve regular contact with children, and therefore is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Applicants are therefore not entitled to withhold information about convictions, cautions or bind-over orders which for any other purposes are “spent” under the provisions of the Act. Any information that is “protected” under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 will not appear on a DBS certificate and does not need to be declared. Guidance on this can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974

Successful candidates will be subject to a DBS check at the appropriate level. Shortlisted candidates will be asked to complete a self-declaration related to their criminal record or any information that would make them unsuitable to work with children. Additional checks in relation to the Childcare Disqualification Regulations will be undertaken for successful candidates to junior academies. If you have lived or worked outside of the UK, additional information may be required from you to satisfy safer recruitment checks.

Equality

ACET is committed to ensuring equality of opportunity throughout the recruitment process. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, and your application will be assessed purely on your ability to do the job.

We undertake to make any ‘reasonable adjustments’ to a job or workplace to counteract any disadvantages a disabled person may face. Where required, we will make reasonable adjustments to the selection process for an applicant with a disability.