Teaching Assistant - Kingsbrook View Primary Academy

Overview

Starting date: Monday 6th January 2025 - (provisional) - Pending satisfactory clearance of pre-employment checks

Term time only: Yes

Salary Type: Bucks pay

Salary details: Bucks Pay Range 1B to 2 dependent on experience £23,297 - £24,879 Annually (FTE) Actual salary will be pro-rata to hours & weeks - estimated gross salary £17,354-£18,533 pro rata approx. per annum

Contract type: Permanent

Hours: Full time: 32.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday 8:30am – 3:30pm), Based on 39 weeks per year (equal to 38 weeks term time plus INSET training days)

Closing date: 6/12/2024 00:00

Interviews to be held: Week commencing Monday 9th December 2024 (Interviews may be offered prior to the closing date, upon receipt of an exceptionally strong application)

About us

Kingsbrook View opened in September 2021, with just 3 classes (90 pupils), and was built to serve the primary education needs of the new Kingsbrook residential development. We currently have 9 classes, up to Year 4. In September 2024, we will have 11 classes, up to Year 5, totalling 330 pupils. Our rapid growth means that we have a number of opportunities to join our expanding and dedicated staff team. We will continue to grow until we reach our final capacity of 472 places, up to the end of KS2.

We offer you:

• A chance to work alongside amazing children who are keen to learn and have high aspirations
  
• An opportunity to work alongside a highly professional, committed and talented staff team
  
• An opportunity to grow and develop as a professional through high quality bespoke personal and professional development
  
• A brand new, state-of-the-art building with dedicated facilities and spaces for supporting learning
  
• A vibrant and inclusive community

Website: https://www.kvpa.org.uk/

About the role

As a Teaching Assistant, you will work alongside teachers to support the educational, social and developmental needs of children.

You will help enable children to achieve and be successful.

You will take ownership of, and support the shared responsibility for, the well-being, education and behaviour of children.

As a Teaching Assistant you treat all pupils with dignity, building relationships rooted in mutual respect, and at all times observing proper boundaries appropriate to the professional position. Successful candidates will be positively committed to shaping and changing the lives of children.

This role involves being a strong team member and having the ability to work in partnership with all stakeholders.

Main responsibilities:

• The post-holder will be expected to support whole class learning, groups of children or individual children having specific or particular needs, as directed.
• The post-holder will share in the care and wellbeing of pupils throughout the academy.
• Teaching Assistants will be fully informed about the needs of groups and individuals’ they are supporting and where working with named children the outcomes of their Educational Healthcare Plan and those targets set by external professionals.
  

Teaching assistants will work under the direction of class teachers and the Head of Academy to support and deliver planned learning interventions.

This Job Description describes in general terms the normal duties which the post-holder will be expected to undertake. However, the job or duties described may vary or be amended from time to time without changing the level of responsibility associated with the post.

The post-holder will be expected to carry out the following - (please also refer to the attached Job Description):

- Safeguarding

- Teaching and learning

- Working collaboratively

- Administrative assistance

- Standards and quality assurance

- Behaviour and classroom management

- Health and welfare of children

- Break and lunchtime duties

About you

Does this sound like you?

· You are child-centred and put children’s best interests at the heart of all you do

· You understand the needs of the children you are supporting and respond accordingly

· You are able to engage children, allowing them to make progress

· You can demonstrate suitable experience and/or qualifications for working in a school context

· You are flexible, adaptable and able to work on your own initiative

· You have enthusiasm and the qualities of a strong team member

· You foster positive relationships with pupils, staff and parents/carers and communicate effectively

· You embrace core moral values such as integrity, resilience and respect

· You have a good sense of humour and a positive outlook

This role requires you to have a suitable standard of English and Maths, as well as a strong grasp of spoken English.

Successful candidates will be required to engage in the statutory training needed for this post.

Other information

For more information about our Academy please visit our website www.kvpa.org.uk or to discuss the role further or arrange a visit please contact our Academy office, via email: [email protected] or telephone: 01296 255000

Interested candidates should complete the online application on the My New Term portal, which includes a personal statement that should outline your suitability for the post by referring to the job description and person specification, https://mynewterm.com/jobs/148576/EDV-2024-KVPA-44291

In compliance with Safer Recruitment guidelines, CV’s cannot be accepted and you will need to complete an online application form to be considered for this position

Candidates will be notified if they have been successful for interview. Interviews may be offered prior to the closing date, upon receipt of an exceptionally strong application.

Kingsbrook View Primary Academy and the Inspiring Future’s Partnership Trust are committed to safeguarding children, promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Online searches will be completed prior to shortlisting and an enhanced DBS and qualifications check will be carried out upon appointment of all successful candidates. 

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:

• All unspent convictions and conditional cautions
• All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020 and 2023).

For further information on filtering please refer to Nacro guidance and the guidance published by the Ministry of Justice (see, in particular, the section titled ‘Exceptions Order’).