Student Support Assistant
Bishop David Brown School
Surrey
- £13,989 - £15,890 per year
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- USTS Pay Scale 4 - £18,883 to £21,450 (FTE)
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- As soon as possible
- Apply by:
- 28 September 2022
Job overview
Student Support Assistant at Bishop David Brown School
31 hours per week - Term time only
Required as soon as possible
Salary £18,883 to £21,450 per annum (FTE), Actual Salary £13,989 to £15,890 Dependent on skills and experience.
Do you have a passion for working with young people?
Do you believe all students should achieve no matter what their challenges?
Do you have passion for changing young people’s lives?
If you answered yes to these questions, then our students need you.
We are looking to expand our Student Support Team to ensure students with additional needs make even greater progress and feel safe and secure within our school.
If you are looking to get into teaching via a SCITT route or other teacher training avenues then this would be a fantastic opportunity to work in a supportive school and gain some valuable experience. You will play an integral part in ensuring student in your care make at least expected progress.
You will have access to high quality resources, including a SPIRIT room and adjoining SPIRIT garden as well as access to CPD to develop your knowledge and understanding.
‘Extra support from teaching assistants in classrooms is effective. They use activities appropriately to meet pupils’ needs. As a result, most pupils with SEND make progress in line with other pupils with similar starting points.’(Ofsted January 2019)
Suitable applicants may be interviewed and appointed prior to the closing date.
Bishop David Brown is passionate about providing a well-rounded education for its students, not only academically but culturally and artistically. This is provided through its diverse and rich curriculum that makes a major contribution to the students’ moral and cultural development.
We are proud of the school’s cultural and ethnic diversity and the vibrant community that this has created. Links with our local community are vital and the school works closely with parents/carers, other schools and local organisations to achieve this.
The students and staff are committed to transforming our school into one which is exceptional. At Bishop David Brown School we want all students to be challenged in order to achieve academic success. We aim to give students opportunities and experiences to learn beyond the classroom and we strive to ensure all our students feel happy and safe.
This has been reflected in our most recent 2019 Ofsted inspection which resulted in a ‘Good’ result.
Bishop David Brown is part of the Unity Schools Trust which is a Multi-Academy Trust formed in September 2015 by the partnership of The Magna Carta School and Bishop David Brown School.
The stated objective of Unity Schools Trust is to achieve Excellence through collaboration. The Trust aims to instil a love of learning by the full engagement of all of its community- students and staff- in the process of acquiring and applying knowledge and engendering the positive habits which support future development.
About Bishop David Brown School
Bishop David Brown is a rapidly improving school with excellent opportunities for professional development for the successful candidate.
Under the leadership of a motivated and supportive leadership team the staff are offered every opportunity to develop their skills including an excellent middle leadership structure. We seek to employ enthusiastic and inspiring professionals to join a team of enthusiastic and supportive staff who are committed to working creatively with our young people to raise standards and enable them all to achieve. In return we offer a supportive and stimulating environment with a comprehensive CPD programme and opportunities for further development.
The students at this school are well behaved and engaged. The school has a performing arts specialty that enables students to widen their experiences to provide well balanced individuals that are attractive candidates for local colleges. It also offers the opportunity to link other subject areas into a creative framework. The school offers a wide range of curriculum subjects to GCSE standard and extra-curricular opportunities that include a steel band.
The school is at the centre of a regeneration project of the local area that will see rapid change to the facilities and environment of local people. Bishop David Brown has been identified by the local authority as a growing school that will double in size in the next five years. This growth will also result in renovated and updated facilities for staff and students.
If you would like to visit us you would be more than welcome. Our experience shows that candidates who visit our school always subsequently apply.
"There is a warm and friendly atmosphere that pervades the school and a great sense of pride among staff and pupils " Ofsted 2018
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