EYFS Teaching Assistant
The Blue Coat School
Birmingham
- Expired
- Salary:
- Part Time £7,444 (2 days per week) – term time only. Extra paid hours available. Generous package of benefits, incl pension.
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- as soon as possible
- Apply by:
- 26 February 2024
Job overview
Closing Date - 9am on Monday 26th February 2024
Interview Date - Tuesday 5th March 2024
Start Date - as soon as possible
Salary - £7,444 – term time only, which includes provision for paid statutory holidays (FTE for a 12 month full time contract: £23,835).
Core Hours - 8am - 3.30pm, Thursdays and Fridays. Extra paid hours available in Afterschool and Holiday Clubs
Benefits of working at our school
The Blue Coat School is a diverse and vibrant community. We pride ourselves on cultivating a staff community who are innovative and dynamic teachers, knowledgeable and passionate support staff, and creative, forward-thinking leaders.
All staff have access to a range of benefits including ongoing CPD, a delicious free lunch each day during term time, remuneration on school fees, access to a 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme, use of fitness facilities including a school pool, social and wellbeing events and free on-site parking.
Support Staff are enrolled into a direct contribution pension scheme with generous employer contributions and associated benefits.
Post Overview
We are seeking an experienced and qualified EYFS Teaching Assistant to join our team of excellent and supportive practitioners.. The successful candidate will be expected to support the Reception class teachers and lead intervention groups as directed.
This is a permanent position, available with a start date as soon as possible. Previous applicants need not apply.
Qualifications/Professional Development
- Level 3 EYFS qualification as defined by the Department for Education
- Paediatric First Aid qualification would be desirable (or willingness to undertake training)
- Food Hygiene qualification would be desirable
- Evidence of recent involvement in professional development
Skills and experience
- Experience of working with and caring for children aged 3 – 11 with an understanding of how to meet each child’s needs
- Experience of planning, leading and participating in activities to support the learning of children in the EYFS is essential
- Experience in KS1 would be desirable
- Effective communication and listening skills
Knowledge
- Sound understanding of safeguarding principles
- Sound knowledge of early childhood development
- Knowledge of current good practice for children aged 3 – 11
Personal attributes
- Sympathy with the Christian ethos and activities of the school
- Ability to form and maintain positive relationships
- Sensitivity to others and the ability to work co-operatively
- Wholehearted commitment to the life of a vibrant school community
A full job description and person specification can be viewed in the Information Booklet below.
All members of staff are required to promote and safeguard the welfare of children they are responsible for, or come into contact with, and to adhere to, and ensure compliance with, the School’s child protection procedures and staff guidance at all times.
A school application form, together with a supporting letter, should be addressed to the Headmaster, Mr Noel Neeson, and returned torecruitment@thebluecoatschool.com, by 9am on Monday 26th February 2024.
Interviews will take place on Tuesday 5th March 2024. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to attend a formal interview and will have an opportunity to tour the school on the day. They will also be asked to plan a 15 minute Phonics activity which they will be observed delivering to a small group of EYFS children.
All applicants will be required to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including online searches, checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
All posts are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the School 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.
At interview applicants must provide original documents to confirm their identity and right to work in the UK. They must also bring proof of qualifications where relevant for the post. The documentation required by applicants is listed in the Recruitment Policy which is available on the school website and from the School.
The Blue Coat School is an equal opportunities employer.
Attached documents
About The Blue Coat School
- The Blue Coat School
- Somerset Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham
- West Midlands
- B17 0HR
- United Kingdom
Thank you for considering our wonderful school. Since our earliest days we have been proudly providing an education that is second to none for the children of Birmingham and beyond. The School today is unrecognisable from its humble beginnings. The mantra 300 years on is ‘limitless learning for tomorrow’s achievers’ where our children thrive and achieve through an extensive academic programme balanced by outstanding offerings in creative arts, performing arts, sport and music.
The School has been shortlisted for three consecutive years for the TES Prep School of the Year Award. In 2020, our unique e-assessment programme, The BCS Blue, was also shortlisted for the TES Strategic Education Initiative of the Year and we were recognised as one of the country's top 25 schools in the i25 Awards.
With facilities that rival senior schools, pupils have the perfect resources for limitless learning. As a Prep School, Blue Coat’s sporting facilities are unrivalled. The addition of an all-weather AstroTurf pitch, cricket nets and two new gym studios have raised the bar even further - BCS Sport is going from strength to strength! We enter many national competitions and have achieved notable regional and national success in swimming, hockey and netball.
A wide-ranging extra-curricular programme is enhanced by partnerships with local clubs including, Bournville Rugby Club, Aston Villa Football Club, Diamond Swim Academy, Complete Cricket, Edgbaston Kestrels Hockey Academy, Edgbaston Priory Club and Edgbaston Golf Club.
In Prep, the children join one of our four Prep Houses. Unique to Blue Coat, these former boarding houses now offer a ‘home from home’ at the start and end of each day, the children can play games, enjoy a movie night, relax and have lots of fun. Inter-house competitions such as the House Shout, House Mastermind and House Matches are keenly fought!
The standard of musicianship at Blue Coat is simply breath-taking! Morning Recitals, BCS Young Musician of the Year and other termly concerts offer performance opportunities for our children. Many aspire to audition for the Chapel Choir which sings at weekly chapel services and joins with the Choral Society and Birmingham Cathedral Choir at special events throughout the year. Through Ensembles and Music Groups such as the Jazz Band, Percussion Group and Flute Ensemble, the children experience playing with their peers and this in turn raises their cognitive skills and improves them as players. The Music Department is supported by a team of Visiting Music Teachers who teach over 300 individual music lessons each week.
Thanks to a blend of brilliant teaching, genuine care and joint endeavour, our pupils leave us ready to make their mark in a thousand different fields. Each year we celebrate outstanding success in the senior school examinations with many pupils in receipt of scholarship awards not just in the academic field, but also for music, sport and the performing arts. Pupils progress to the region's most renowned schools including the Independent and Grammar Schools of the King Edward VI Foundation, Solihull School, Edgbaston High School for Girls and Bromsgrove School. Others progress to schools across the country including Cheltenham College and Wycombe Abbey, as well as 13+ entry to the likes of Repton School and Eton College.
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