Teaching Assistant

Wave Multi Academy Trust; Highweek; On-site; GBP 19,000 - 20,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading educational organization in the UK is seeking a part-time Teaching Assistant to join Glendinning Academy. The role involves supporting pupils aged 7-16 with social interaction and communication needs. The ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills, patience, and experience working with young people with additional needs. This permanent position offers benefits such as a pension scheme and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Pension Scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Counselling

Occupational Health Services

Professional Development & Training

Cycle to Work Scheme

Tech Scheme

Free Will Writing Benefit

Health & Wellbeing Champion

Company sick pay dependent on service

Free refreshments in workplaces

Qualifications

• Experience working with young people with additional needs.
• Ability to make a difference for pupils with social, emotional, and mental health needs.
• Understanding of safeguarding principles.

Responsibilities

• Support pupils' learning and well-being.
• Implement personalized education programs.
• Promote emotional well-being and self-esteem.

Skills

Teamwork

Communication Skills

Patience

Resilience

Job description

Salary NJC4 - NJC6 £26,041 - £26,876 (FTE) Actual Salary £19,204 - £19,820

Location Glendinning Academy, Newton Abbot, TQ12 4HD

This is a Permanent, Part Time vacancy that will close in 12 days at 23:59 GMT.

Hours: 32

Expected Start Date: ASAP

Permanent Part Time Contract

We are looking to appoint an outstanding and committed Teaching Assistant who embodies our Trust values; candidates who have diverse experience, as well as a passion for working with young people with additional needs. Our ideal candidate will have excellent teamwork and communication skills, boundless patience and resilience and the ability and enthusiasm to make a difference with pupils who have a range of social, emotional and mental health needs.

Wave is dedicated to the safeguarding of children and Safer Recruitment Procedures will be followed. The position requires a satisfactory enhanced DBS check and online check.

About The Academy

Glendinning Academy is a 120 place Special School for children aged from 7 to 16 with social interaction and communication needs including those on the Autism Spectrum. The academy opened in 2019 and will have grown to 120 pupils by Sep 2022. Pupils have Education, Health and Care Plans with primary needs of ASC or SLCN. Glendinning Academy provides a personalised supportive environment.

Wave Trust

We provide education for vulnerable pupils aged 4 – 19 across Devon and Cornwall. The Trust educates over 1000 pupils and employs over 350 members of staff.

• Provide a balanced and broad curriculum that promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils and prepares them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of adult life.
• Give access to the National Curriculum; provide opportunities for external accreditation, and, for those pupils with specific learning difficulties, effective and personalised programmes.
• Ensure all pupils are supported to develop positive attitudes towards themselves and others. Promoting emotional well-being and self-esteem; helping our pupils to recognise their potential and work positively within their community.
• We will respect all pupils and encourage them to become active participants in their own learning, develop confidence, independence, self-esteem and express their needs and desires.
• Seek effective and positive working relationships with pupils’ families, schools and other agencies.
• Enable effective outcomes for our pupils.

Benefits

• Pension Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Counselling
• Occupational Health Services
• Professional Development & Training
• Salary depending on experience
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Tech Scheme
• Free Will Writing Benefit
• Health & Wellbeing Champion
• Company sick pay dependent on service
• Free refreshments in workplaces

Our Values

BE POSITIVE We value positivity, no matter what the circumstances. It is our intention to stay constructive, optimistic and confident both for and with our young people and their families.

HAVE EMPATHY We are kind, we have empathy. We consider the consequences of our decisions, large and small on those around us.

Show Respect We conduct ourselves in ways that earn the trust of those around us. We respect each other and those we work with.

WORK AS ONE TEAM We depend on teamwork and the relationships we have. When we work together we are stronger. Together we will achieve more.

BE INCLUSIVE Everybody is treated fairly and equally; no-one is marginalised or left behind. We are inclusive, we embrace the human spirit. We value diversity of people and thought.

Documents

Teaching Assistant JD and Role Specification - Download