Teaching Assistant – Secondary Education

Eteach; Kidderminster; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in education is seeking passionate Teaching Assistants to support students with SEMH needs. Join a vibrant team dedicated to making a transformative impact in the lives of young learners. This role offers the chance to build strong relationships in a supportive environment, ensuring every child reaches their full potential. With a focus on personal development and tailored support, you will play a crucial role in fostering a positive learning atmosphere. Enjoy competitive pay, comprehensive training, and a range of employee benefits in a forward-thinking educational setting.

Benefits

FREE Lunch

Training and Development

UK Health Cash Plan

Employee Assistance Programme

Refer a friend for £1,000

Enhanced Annual Leave

Company Sick Pay

Enhanced Pension

Life Assurance

Perkbox Discounts

Qualifications

• GCSE Maths and English Level 2/C or above qualification is essential.
• Experience within an education setting and understanding of safeguarding principles.

Responsibilities

• Support children with their learning and general wellbeing.
• Establish warm, caring relationships to promote independence and personal development.

Skills

Communication Skills

Positive Behaviour Management

Empathy

Creativity in Meeting Needs

Education

GCSE Maths and English Level 2/C

Level 2 Award in Support Work in Schools

Job description

Teaching Assistant – Secondary Education

Location: Torton, Kidderminster

Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent, Term time only

Hours: Full-time, 40 hours per week

Hourly Rate: £12.37 - £13.49 per hour

Annual Salary: £22,102.72 - £24,103.93 actual salary

Aurora Wilden View

Aurora Wilden View opened last year and is a beautiful, purposeful school set in an idyllic 20 acre site with bright, modern classrooms and specialist areas including a brand new Science and Technology building. We provide the best elements of mainstream education with unique specialist and therapeutic input. Our wonderful team are dedicated to making a transformative impact in the lives of young people with SEMH needs and associated challenging behaviour linked to Autistic Spectrum Conditions. We are looking for caring individuals who are full of ambition and drive to inspire the next generation of students who have already experienced a turbulent time prior to joining us. Can you be their stability and their champion? If so, we want to hear from you. Take a look around using our online virtual tour: Visit our school

This is an exciting time to join our new school and be part of the ongoing growth and success. We are now looking to recruit a number of Teaching Assistants to support Year 8/9 & 10 students.

The role:

As one of our new Teaching Assistants, your role will be to support our children with their learning and general wellbeing. With small class sizes of up to 8 students we have the opportunity to build strong, successful relationships and ensure every child has the best chance to reach their full potential in a caring and safe environment. Where necessary this may include supporting with care needs from time to time as well as positive behaviour management adopting a tailored approach to the individual child.

You will be expected to establish a warm, caring and supportive relationship with pupils in order to support them feeling safe and enabling them to enjoy and learn during their time at the School, and to promote and encourage independence and personal development in pupils and maintain high expectations of behaviour at all times.

You will support the class teacher and contribute to providing high quality, challenging and differentiated educational activities and experiences through supporting the teaching of a broad and balanced curriculum aiming at pupils achieving their full potential in all areas of learning

Hours of work are: 40 hours per week, term time only. 8.30am start. Finishing at 5pm Mondays, 4.30pm Tues to Thurs and an early finish of 4pm on Fridays. 2.5 hours per week to carry out ongoing training and development / additional duties.

Experience & Qualifications:

• Working towards Level 2 award in Support work in schools or an equivalent is desirable

• GCSE Maths and English Level 2/C or above qualification is essential.

• Experience within an education setting

• Understanding of the Safeguarding principles and Child Protection procedures.

• Some experience of working with SEMH learners with complex needs and challenging behaviour in a school environment

• Commitment to the role, the desire to put the child first and treat them as an individual

• Be positive and creative in meeting pupils’ needs

• Full clean driving licence

What’s on offer?

• Training and Development

Within Aurora, we strongly believe that learning and development should not be limited to just the children and young people we support. We offer wide range of programmes and opportunities to all our employees to improve your skills and further your career.

• FREE Lunch!

All staff are able to take advantage of school lunches whilst onsite, at no cost

• Save money on your bills!!

With the cost of living rising we have a fantastic benefit through Perkbox to help with cutting costs and help make your money go further. Perkbox is a free app for you to use on the go wherever you are. You can get deals and discounts to save money on things like your weekly food bill, phone plans, internet, eating out, gym memberships, insurance and more. You can also use Perkbox for our cycle to work scheme and car scheme.

• Competitive Pay and Reward

Every year we compare the market rates of pay and rewards to insure they are comparable or better to other similar organisations. We also offer Enhanced Annual Leave, Company Sick Pay, Enhanced Pension and Life Assurance.

• UK Health Cash Plan

This plan can help cover your day to day healthcare expenditure such as optician and dental bills. You and your children are covered on this plan and you can also choose to upgrade and add a partner to enjoy the benefits with you.

• Employee Assistance Programme

Your health and wellbeing is very important to us and we have support available on a wide variety of issues, helping you with online tools, information and via a freephone counselling service available 24/7.

• Refer a friend for £1,000

We’ll reward you for recommending friends and family to come and join the company (*terms apply)

How to apply?

Please complete an online application form in full, remembering to include all employment and education details.

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.

The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer.

This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled.

Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.