Teaching Assistant

Fortis Academy; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

Fortis Academy is seeking a dedicated Teaching Assistant to enrich students' learning experiences in a vibrant secondary school. Candidates must be patient and proactive, providing support in a variety of subjects. This rewarding role offers the chance to inspire young minds while gaining valuable educational experience in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Generous holiday entitlement from day one

Electric Car Scheme

Medicash Health & Wellbeing Plan

Discount for Teachers Scheme

Free Eye Tests

Cycle to work scheme

Access to Institute of Education opportunities

Training courses and NPQs provided

Qualifications

• Patient, proactive, and passionate about helping students succeed.
• Able to provide one-on-one support and deliver engaging lessons.

Responsibilities

• Support learning in a vibrant secondary school.
• Work closely with teachers to deliver engaging lessons.
• Help create a positive, inclusive classroom atmosphere.

Skills

Patience

Proactivity

Passion for education

Job description

Salary Grade 4 (£24,405 to £25,183 FTE) Pay award pending

Fortis Academy have an opening for a dedicated and enthusiastic Teaching Assistant to support learning in a vibrant secondary school environment! Our ideal candidate is patient, proactive, and passionate about helping students succeed across a range of subjects. You’ll work closely with teachers to deliver engaging lessons, provide one-on-one support, and help create a positive, inclusive classroom atmosphere. This is a fantastic opportunity to make a real difference in young people’s lives while gaining valuable experience in education. Join us and inspire the next generation!

Fortis Academy is a very large 11-18 academy serving alocal area of high-density housing in Birmingham’s outer suburbs. The Academy is the largest employer in theward, with over 200 employees. It is part of the North Area Network of schools,one of six network regions in the city. The setting is uniquely split into aFoundation Academy and Senior Academy.

Fortis Academy’s vision is Enriching Lives. This isunderpinned by the values of Character, Resilience and Aspiration. Ourcurriculum centres around three key areas; a rich and ambitious knowledge-basedacademic curriculum, a continuous attention to physical and mental well-being,with increasing use of 21st century technologies to support improved outcomes.We believe this combination will help our students lead confident, healthy, andfulfilled lives as adults and ready for the world of work.

Shaw Education Trust are a thriving mix of diverse and growing schools including Primary, Secondary and Special Schools all working together to improve the lives of young people in our communities. We are sponsored by Shaw Trust a charity organisation that focuses on transforming lives. We’re a growing group of dynamically awesome academies providing education to children of all ages and abilities. Staff across our team of schools are dedicated to ensuring that every child has the opportunity to be successful, whatever their starting point in life.

In our secondary schools, we pride ourselves on our innovative approach to curriculum design, to ensure all our schools have breadth and ambition for all students, regardless of their starting points and barriers. Standard curriculum models don’t always engage all students, so we constantly seek to innovate and provide better opportunities to develop both knowledge and skills for life. We want our students to believe their curriculum is bold, exciting, purposeful, and ultimately leads to something meaningful for them. Some examples of our innovation include moving towards an extended school day, to provide a world class enrichment programme and more opportunities for essential skills like reading and cultural capital. We are also introducing vocational and technical pathways, which run through the normal school curriculum but attract support from leading employers and universities to develops work-readiness in our students, so that they can progress onto T Levels and apprenticeships.

We are currently at an exciting point in their evolution, with collaboration at the heart of our collective endeavour. We don’t operate in silos: we value the power of the pack and strive to collaborate as a collective, ensuring no school or colleague is left behind. We are currently co-constructing an aligned curriculum across all EBacc curriculum subjects, to create a world class curriculum, rich in powerful knowledge and skills. This is driving up standards through the sharing of the very best practice, whilst allowing each school sufficient flexibility for autonomy to do what is right for their local context. A by product of this approach has been the reduction in planning workload for colleagues, meaning they can spend more time on the things that matter and fostering strong relationships with pupils and delivery of the curriculum.

Shaw Education Trust offer the following employee benefits with your Teaching or Support Staff employment:

• Support Staff only based on workingfull time, all year- Generous holiday entitlement from your first day of employment (37 days holidayrising to 39 daysafter 5 years’ service including Bank Holidays)
  
• Electric Car Scheme: Environmentally friendly vehicles with our electric car scheme.
• Access to Medicash Health & Wellbeing Plan: Enjoy health services designed to support your well-being.
• Free DiscountForTeachers Scheme for all staff (Support and Teaching), Exclusive discounts to save money with a wide selection of discounts and exclusive offers from hundreds of the biggest brands.
• Free Eye Tests
• Cycle to work scheme
• Access to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help yougrow, contributeandflourishin your role and in the Trust.

We know our people are the key to our success and so we’re committed to ensuring the employment experience at Shaw Education Trust is a rewarding one.

Colleagues within the Trust benefit from: Access to a full range of courses both in-house and professionally accredited. These courses include all of the National Professional Qualifications – NPQH, NPQSL, NPQEYL, NPQLL, NPQLT, NPQLTD, NPQLBC are all delivered by the Shaw Education Trust as a delivery partner for Ambition Institute. In addition, we provide access to the NPQEL for Executive Leaders.

• Experienced leadership and subject-specific support.
• Guidance from former HMIs and serving Ofsted Inspectors within the Trust.
• Access to the Trust’s Institute of Education and SCITT.
• Opportunities to work with different schools within the Trust as a Professional Advocate.
• Access to a suite of online courses.
• Placement projects within our family of schools.

Working Hours: 37 hours per week, 39 weeks per year (term time plus 5 INSET days)

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

This position is subject to appropriate vetting procedures including an online checks and criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) which will require you to disclose details of all unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions.

All shortlisted candidates will undergo an online search as part of Trust safer recruitment.

We reserve the right to appoint before the closing date as we review applications on an on-going basis and interviews may be arranged as suitable candidates are identified, therefore, we encourage early applications.

We are an Equal Opportunities employer and will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.

In accordance with our safer recruitment policy CV’s alone will not be accepted.

We reserve the right to appoint before the closing date, therefore, we encourage early applications.

Successful candidates will be subject to a fully Enhanced DBS check along with other relevant employment checks.