Teaching and Learning Assistant for Science or DT
Valence School
Kent
- Expired
- Salary:
- £17,827 FTE gross p.a.
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 24 June 2017
Job overview
1 x SCIENCE and 1 x DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY
Full Time – 37 hours per week – Term Time Only – Permanent
Hours worked between 8.30am and 4.30pm Monday to Friday
Kent Scheme 5: £17,827 Full Time Equivalent p.a. (£15,043 pro-rated p.a. for Term Time working, £9.24 per hour) plus local government pension
Our Teaching & Learning Assistants provide high quality support for teaching and learning within our Science or DT curriculum. This includes:
- Informing and advising other support staff deployed in lessons to enable them to effectively support students’ learning
- Ensuring effective communication with, and between, staff and students and contribute to securing efficiency and high standards of care and personal development for students
- Delivering particular strategies and programmes for students
- To lead on general support duties including providing physical management and personal care
Successful applicants will have a good general education including GCSE (or equivalent) at grade C or above in English and Maths, and will be supported to complete the Level 3 Diploma in Specialist Support for Teaching & Learning in Schools (if not already achieved). A further qualification in either Science or Design & Technology would be advantageous along with a genuine interest in these subjects.
Experience of complex physical and medical needs is desirable, however an aspiration to enable students to learn and achieve meaningful independence is essential.
We offer a supportive, friendly working environment in a country school setting and the chance to make a real and positive impact on the lives of Valence students.
Valence School is a KCC Foundation residential and day Special School. We cater for children and young people with physical disabilities, complex medical needs and associated learning and communication difficulties from age 4 to 19.
Valence School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of every student. The successful applicants will require an enhanced DBS check and references will be taken up BEFORE interview.
For further information and application details please contact the Human Resources Department
Closing date for applications: Sunday 25 June 2017
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About Valence School
We are proud to share with you the excellent work we do with children and young people who have physical disabilities and complex medical needs. Our school is unique within the maintained sector in the whole of southern England. We cater for students aged 4 to 19 and have both day and boarding places. We have a large site with high quality teaching, social care and health care facilities. A staff team of over 200 people provides specialist teaching, social care, therapies and nursing care to an exceptionally high standard.
Our overall aim is to enable every child and young person to achieve meaningful independence. Students flourish in a supportive but challenging environment, making good educational progress and achieving a range of accreditation as they get older. There is excellent support to enable students to achieve functional communication, mobility and skills for daily living.
We are a Foundation Special School and are part of the Kent SEN Trust, a cooperative trust of ten schools working together to improve outcomes for all the children and young people attending the schools. In 2008 Valence became a specialist Sports College and this status plays a significant role in raising students’ achievements and their participation in high quality physical education and sport.
The School works proactively with parents and external professionals to provide holistic support for every child and young person. It is also developing high quality outreach support services to local schools and more widely for children and young people in Kent who have physical disabilities who are attending mainstream schools.
The School always places children and young people at the centre of all decisions it takes and it has a relentless focus on achieving the best possible outcomes for every student
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