Graduate Teaching Assistant
Our Lady and St John RC High School, a Voluntary Academy
Blackburn
- Expired
- Salary:
- Grade D (Point 15-19)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- September 2018
- Apply by:
- 1 July 2018
Job overview
Salary: Grade D (Point 15-19)
Contract Terms: 37 hours per week, term time only (39 weeks)
Contract Type: Fixed Term (from 1st September 2018 to 17th July 2019)
Start Date: September 2018
Join us on our journey towards outstanding.
Working in partnership with St Patrick’s National Teaching School, Our Lady & St John Catholic College is an 11-16 Voluntary Aided School enjoying ‘rapid improvement’ in our pursuit of excellence.
We are seeking to appoint a successful, highly motivated and dynamic Graduate Teaching Assistant. Duties will include providing support to classroom based teachers, working with pupils on an individual and small group basis to help with their learning. Lesson cover may also be required after training in this area. The candidate must be a recent graduate looking to gain school experience with the view to becoming a teacher in the future.
The position offers the opportunity to gain valuable experience in a supportive, passionate and hardworking team. The successful candidate will:
- Have a love for education and learning
- Have high regard for their learning environment and resources
- Aspire to be a talented, dynamic and an ambitious teacher in the future
- Have the desire to inspire, engage and enthuse students
- Engage with professional development opportunities, training sessions and CPD to help you develop your skills and knowledge.
Full access to the Graduate Teaching Assistant programme and support will be given to the successful candidate.
The Application pack can obtained and return to Mrs Casandra Taylor by e-mail (ctaylor2@olsj.blackburn.sch.uk).
Closing date for applications is: Monday 2nd July at 3pm.
“Our Lady and St John’s is an Outstanding Catholic School… where pupils are given opportunities to flourish as individuals and where staff are empowered to continuously improve” Section 48 Inspection 2017.
“We are like a family here” student feedback to inspectors.
Our Lady & St John Catholic College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Applicants must be willing to undergo appropriate child protection screening, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure & Barring Service.
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About Our Lady and St John RC High School, a Voluntary Academy
- Our Lady and St John RC High School, a Voluntary Academy
- North Road, Blackburn
- Lancashire
- BB1 1PY
- United Kingdom
Our Lady and St John is an 11-16 Catholic Voluntary Aided School situated in Blackburn and part of Salford Diocese. Our strengths are our staff and our students. We have a great team spirit in school and support each other to improve and succeed. As one of our students said to inspectors: "We are like a family here." We have staff and students of various faiths, but all are committed to our school values of Unity, Faith, Truth, Justice, Forgiveness and Industry. These values are routed in our Catholic faith which is about educating the whole child, seeing each individual as sacred and welcoming everyone regardless of gender, faith, ethnicity or sexuality.
We have an excellent CPD programme, using high quality twilights and instructional coaching approaches to support all of our staff to improve. Shared planning time is allocated in the school day to reduce workload and raise standards. Consequently, our curriculum planning and implementation is improving all the time. We also have an extensive extra-curricular programme that is built around timetabled clubs to support staff to contribute without impacting on their work / life balance.
Our support for staff and students is a real strength of the school. We have excellent pastoral provision and a well-established programme to support the mental health of staff and students called the "Healthy Heads" strategy. We have an active staff welfare group who arrange social events and support staff at times of personal difficulty. Our staff enjoy working here and would love to welcome you to our team if you are successful in an application.
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