Teaching Assistant
Wade Deacon High School
Widnes, Cheshire
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- NJC Scale Points 10 – 15 (£15,613 – £17,072) plus SEN Allowance (£1,239)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- ASAP
- Apply by:
- 14 September 2017
Job overview
Teaching Assistant Application Information
To start: ASAP Full Time Fixed Term – until 31st August 2018
Salary: NJC Scale Points 10 – 15 (£15,613 – £17,072) plus SEN Allowance (£1,239)
We seek to appoint a committed and dynamic Teaching Assistant to work with specific children throughout the whole school. Our teaching and support staff work hard and enthusiastically as one team with the belief that every student can succeed and transform their life chances, achieving more than they dreamt possible. You will be able to enthuse and motivate our students with your passion for the learning, your presence and personality.
Our school is a supportive and rewarding place to work. We can offer the successful candidate an opportunity to work with highly trained and supportive staff, as well as a whole school commitment to professional development. A comprehensive programme of CPD supports colleagues at all career stages, and opportunities through both the Teaching School status and the Multi-Academy Trust provide excellent career opportunities for our staff. Colleagues seeking a varied, challenging and rewarding career can find this in the Wade Deacon family.
Wade Deacon High School is the lead school of a cross-phase, cross-regional teaching school alliance, and also the lead school in a growing multi-academy trust; Wade Deacon Trust. With a range of exciting opportunities for aspiring teachers and current educational leaders, we provide the very best support and training to ensure that our staff achieve their goals.
Wade Deacon High School is friendly, dynamic and innovative. Our last OFSTED described us as “an outstanding school" in every category. We have developed exceptional International links with top schools in Japan, China and India. In 2014 we were shortlisted for both 'Employer of the Year' in the Investors in People Awards, and ‘Excellence in Learning and Development’ in the Personnel Today Awards. We are also accredited as Investors in People ‘Champions’, a prestigious recognition of our commitment to growth and excellence through supporting, recognising and encouraging our staff.
The successful applicant will have to meet the requirements of our Personnel Recruitment specification and be subject to an enhanced DBS (CRB) check.
Application form and further details are available via the school website https://wadedeacontrust.com/ or on request by telephoning the school on 0151 423 2721.
Closing Date: 9.00am on Friday 15th September 2017
Further Information Further information is available on the school and trust websites; www.wadedeacon.co.uk www.wadedeacontrust.com
About Wade Deacon High School
Wade Deacon are an Outstanding 11-16 comprehensive school with over 1600 students on roll. The school is heavily oversubscribed year on year and enjoys an enviable reputation, both locally and nationally. This reputation, and the respect that the local community holds for the school is symptomatic of the fact that they get the basics right: mutual respect and courtesy, exemplary standards across all strands of students’ work and impeccable uniform.
Wade Deacon’s latest 'Outstanding' Ofsted report from November 2022 celebrated the wonderful students, staff and the exceptional school that serves the local community. Inspectors said that students behaved ‘impeccably well’ and that they ‘respect the uniqueness of individual people.’
Wade Deacon pride themselves on the quality and diversity of the curriculum, including personal development and extracurricular provision which not only enable students to enjoy their learning but also allows them to be able to meet the many challenges that they will face in the future, understanding the wider world and their place within it.
Above all else, Wade Deacon believes that every student, regardless of their context or starting point, can and should achieve their full potential.
Wade Deacon is located in Widnes and forms part of the Wade Deacon Trust.
Executive Principal
Mr Brendan Hesketh, BA (Hons), MA
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