SEND Support Teaching Assistant
Manchester Communication Primary Academy
Manchester
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- £17,049.78 FTE (actual £13,642.44 part time/term time)
- Job type:
- Part Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- 1st September 2020
- Apply by:
- 17 July 2020
Job overview
MCPA is seeking to appoint a Teaching Assistant to support children with complex Special Educational Needs. The majority of this role will be acting as 1:1 support for a child with complex learning needs.
The successful candidate will need to be flexible, resilient, confident in leading small group sessions and providing 1:1 interventions.
Who are we?
Manchester Communication Primary Academy opened its doors in September 2014 to a small cohort of EYFS/Y1 children, since then it has grown by a 2-form year group each year. The school now has nearly 500 children on site.
Our last Ofsted inspection graded the school as ‘Good’ in all areas, MCPA is ‘a school with a ‘heart’; a kind, caring and supportive community. There are 25 different languages spoken yet every pupil is treated as a member of the same family.’ (Ofsted 2017)
The school has a vibrant and inclusive environment; parents are well engaged, staff and children enjoy working and learning at the school. Colleagues at the school are well supported; We use ‘Maths No Problem’, ‘Read Write Inc’ and ‘Talk for Writing’ approaches to support our teaching in being the best it can be.
Who are we looking for?
We are looking for a skilled teaching assistant with a passion for inclusion, a consistently positive attitude and the drive to help our most vulnerable young people to succeed.
As a nurturing school, we are keen to recruit staff with a commitment and ability to meet the needs of all children in our community.
What does a typical day look like in this role?
The working day starts at 8:30am with supporting breakfast club, this may involve general supervision or leading a specific activity.
The school day starts at 8:50am, at which time you would meet your key child to complete a start of day activity, such as a visual timetable.
For the first lesson, you may be responsible for leading a small group of around 4 children in English, within the larger class. This group will include your ‘key child’, who is entitled to your support in small group or 1:1 sessions. Or, you may be working 1:1 with your key child.
After break, you would support a similar group in maths, delivering a bespoke session to them.
In the afternoon you may complete some 1:1 interventions/support with your key child or another child with SEND in the phase, whilst supporting the delivery of the foundation curriculum.
The school day finishes at 3:15pm, one day per week you will run a club for a small group of children, and on a Wednesday we get together for staff training after school.
When does the role start?
September the 1st
If I’m still interested, what should I do next?
We think that applying for a new role should always be seen as a two-way process, you have to be right for us, but the school also has to be right for you. So if you are interested in applying, please do feel free to get in touch, come for a look around, or have a chat about the role.
Closing Date: 9am 17th July 2020
Interviews : 22nd July 2020
Manchester Communication Primary Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure for a Regulated Activity via the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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About Manchester Communication Primary Academy
- Manchester Communication Primary Academy
- 49 Parkstead Drive, Harpurhey
- Manchester
- M9 5QN
- United Kingdom
Manchester Communication Primary Academy (as seen on TV! Britain‘s Got Talent 2022) opened in 2014, moving into a state of the art newly built school in 2015.
Since then we have recruited a diverse and committed team of professionals
who adopt nurturing principles to help children achieve academic excellence. If this sounds like a team which you could contribute to, please do read on.
The Academy has excellent working conditions and offers ongoing support for
continued professional and personal development.
We are therefore looking
to recruit professionals who share our values and have high expectations of
themselves and the children who they teach.
The academy’s support includes the following:
*Coaching approach to professional development; lesson observations not
graded and no ‘data-driven performance management’.
* Sensible approach to feedback on children’s work- verbal feedback policy.
* High quality published schemes of work used for teaching of maths,
spelling and phonics- training provided on these.
* Every member of staff can take one 'flexi day' holiday per year in
term-time.
* Teaching staff have a minimum of 2 slots of PPA per week. 1 slot always
with year-group partners.
* Weekly staff training session centred on training needs.
* Car leasing and technology purchasing schemes by salary sacrifice.
* School finishes at 2pm on a Friday.
* 2 week holiday at October half-term.
* Access to confidential personal support provided by an external agency
(financial advice, counselling etc).
* Excellent career progression routes through a talent management strategy
for those who are keen to develop. All leadership roles at MCPA
are paid through a leadership allowance or scale, including subject leaders
and TA leaders.
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