SEND Teaching Assistant
Manchester Communication Academy
Manchester
- £14,762 - £19,631 per year
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 19th April 2021 (depending on employment checks)
- Apply by:
- 3 March 2021
Job overview
Manchester Communication Academy is a vibrant school that is at the heart of the community and is committed to improving educational outcomes for all of our students. MCA is proud to be a community hub and our outward facing work is exceptional.
In our Ofsted inspection in 2019 we were recognised as a GOOD school and want to build on this by recruiting excellent practitioners that are driven by evidence informed practice. MCA received Research School status in September 2019 and we are proud of the work that we conduct in partnership with the EEF and how this drives our teaching practice.
The School
Manchester Communication Academy serves the community of Harpurhey and its surrounding districts. We are an 11-16 secondary school with a primary school also on site. Close collaboration between the two schools is fundamental to our way of working.
Not only is the Academy committed to offering our students the highest quality learning experience, together, our driving force is to mitigate the impact of disadvantage and ensuring that the young people that we serve are equipped and ready to be successful and happy adults who we are proud to know.
Everyone at MCA shares these same values and this is important to us. If you share these values too, then we would love to hear from you!
Job Details
Contract: Permanent, 37.5 hrs per week, term time only
Salary: £17,220 - £22,899 FTE (actual TTO £14,762 - £19,631)
Start Date: 19th April 2021 (depending on employment checks)
Specific Areas of Responsibility
- Accountable for elements of effective targeted intervention in support of improving student outcomes and wellbeing
- Plan collaboratively with subject specialists aspects of support, curriculum and assessment
- Monitor and support the quality of provision for specified vulnerable students
- Ensure up-to-date knowledge of national and local initiatives which may impact upon policy and practice
- Support an ‘every lesson counts’ and ‘no child left behind’ agenda
- Establish productive working relationships with pupils, acting as a role model and setting high expectations
- Use personal specialism to support different learning groups, such as more able, SEND, EAL etc (or specialist subject support)
- Help to develop individual and group learning programmes to respond to current and future needs
- Advise and support parents in the delivery of programmes at home which support the learning needs
- Assist with the supervision of student/s out of directed lesson time, including before and after school if appropriate and within working hours.
- To encourage specific learners to become independent, collaborative learners
- To assist children with their personal care needs where needed.
Please download Job Description for full details.
Please apply for the post by completing the TES online application form, which should include a supporting statement of no more than 2 sides of A4 (minimum font size 10) explaining, with examples, how you meet the requirements set out in the person specification.
The closing date for applications is 9am Wednesday 3rd March 2021
Manchester Communication 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 Academy
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- Manchester Communication Academy
- Silchester Drive, Harpurhey
- Manchester
- M40 8NT
- United Kingdom
Why Join Us?
Manchester Communication Academy is a highly successful 11-16 comprehensive school in north Manchester. In 2023, the school was placed in the top 10 % of schools nationally based on key stage 4 outcomes and has consistently secured student progress outcomes that are significantly above the national average.
Manchester Communication Academy is also host to Manchester Communication Research School, part of a national network of schools that is partnered with the Education Endowmment Foundation to support schools to effectively embed evidence informed practice that will break the link between family income and educational attainment. This means that the school is at the forefront of evidence informed practice and offers opportunities for involvement in wider national partnerships with other successful schools.
Manchester Communication Academy is part of Greater Manchester Academies Trust. Leaders and teachers across the Trust are driven by the aim of mitigating the impact of social disadvantage. This is achieved through a collective ownership from all leaders and teachers to prioritise the highest quality teaching and learning combined with effective partnerships with families and the wider community. We achieve this through recruiting on values; a significant investment in the highest quality, evidence informed professional development; and a highly skilled family partnership and social investment team.
The Trust is fully committed to it’s ethos of with you…for you…about you…Not just for our students but also for all of our staff.
Student and Staff well-being is high on our agenda and your professional development and interests are a priority for us. We want our young people to get the best possible deal and that can only be achieved if their teachers are happy, healthy and know that they are valued. Our commitment to you includes but is not exclusive to:
No marking policy-feedback policy is evidence informed.
No written reports.
One Flexi-Day a year, fully paid.
All quality assurance is collaborative and transparent-we do not apply judgements.
All funeral requests granted without question.
We expect you to attend your child’s nativity or open morning.
No meetings after school.
No additional cover outside of directed time.
Teaching staff have 20% protected non-contact time.
All detentions are centralised and facilitated by pastoral team, not teachers.
We develop leadership positions and undertake shadow-staffing/succession planning
exercises to see who we need to retain.
PM is called Performance Development and we focus on how to continue to thrive and excel
in the areas of your role that you already enjoy and demonstrate brilliance.
All new staff are buddied up with a mentor outside of their faculty area.
We make a big deal out of events that support your well-being, such as random acts of kindness, Macmillan coffee mornings, cultural diversity celebrations, Thank a Teacher. Staff are recognised and rewarded through our staff recognition scheme
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