Teaching Assistant (Apprentice)
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Leigh Academy Molehill
Kent, Maidstone
- Expired
- Salary:
- Actual salary £11,805 per annum (£13,725 full time equivalent)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- September 2024
- Apply by:
- 1 September 2024
Job overview
Molehill Primary Academy has a fantastic opportunity to appoint a Teaching Assistant (Apprentice) to join and support our classes in our highly successful academy. This role is ideal for those who genuinely have a passion for helping children within a primary setting.
What does the role involve? The main aim of this role is to support our teachers to deliver academic excellence, day in, day out, with professionalism and enthusiasm. This will involve providing a comprehensive support service to the Academy including:
- Assisting students with their educational and social development, on an individual and group basis
- Providing support for individual students inside and outside the classroom to enable them to fully participate in activities
- Assisting teachers with the maintenance of student records
- Building and maintaining successful relationships with students, whilst treating them with respect and consideration
- Provide expertise to deliver a personalised curriculum for each pupil’s learning
- Work together with families and other agencies to ensure every pupil is valued, challenged and supported
- Have the highest expectation that every pupil will make sustained academic and personal progress
Each and every member of staff, regardless of their position or seniority, is expected to participate in the overall running of the school and to act as a positive role model for our students. In and out of the classroom you will encourage and promote positive behaviour and effectively manage any situation that threatens to impact on the progress of other students.
Apprenticeship Summary
Annual wage: Actual salary £11,805 per annum (£13,725 full time equivalent)
Working weeks: Monday - Friday, Term Time + 1 week inset
Total hours per week: 37 (including the 20% training element of the Apprenticeship) - start and finish times to be agreed
Apprenticeship duration: 18 months approx.
Anticipated start date: September 2024
Apprenticeship level: Advanced Level Apprenticeship (Level 3)
Apprenticeship standard: Teaching Assistant
Essential entry qualifications: GCSEs A* - C, Maths and English (desirable)
Future prospects: This apprenticeship could be the start of a very promising career within the wider business. We endeavour to offer further employment following successful performance and completion of the Level 3 course with future opportunities to extend your training with a higher level apprenticeship programme. We offer in-house Continuing Professional Development and you’ll be part of a highly experienced and efficient team – you’ll be learning from the very best!
Please note that interviews for this position will take place in September, when our Academy returns after the summer break.
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About Leigh Academy Molehill
At Leigh Academy Molehill, we have created a culture that enables both pupils and staff to thrive and achieve their very best. The Academy was opened in 1954 to serve the southern part of the Shepway Estate and the roads leading to it. It caters to boys and girls from the age of three to eleven years. It stands on beautiful grounds, which we have specifically developed to aid curriculum studies.
Relationships between staff at all levels and the children, are highly positive, and this creates a warm and vibrant atmosphere in lessons and during social times. With the support and guidance of leaders, teachers provide well-organised, calm, and purposeful classrooms in which children can enjoy their learning challenges. The positive and caring ethos at Molehill is combined with a clear, relentless focus and an ambition that all pupils can and will achieve well, regardless of their different starting points. Teachers have embedded a culture of high expectations; we will all do whatever it takes to create better life opportunities for our pupils, and they deserve the very best. This commitment was officially recognised in our recent December 2024 Ofsted inspection, where the academy was rated ‘Outstanding’ in all areas. Inspectors commended the school for its ‘endless ambition’ and our proven ability to ensure that every pupil thrives. We help support and develop one another in an open and supportive environment. This extends across the Trust, allowing us to work with other academies, either within the cluster or further afield, whilst still maintaining our own personality and driving our own priorities.
To enhance our curriculum delivery, we are an academy for the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme (IB PYP), an IB World School. This is an inquiry-led framework that develops independent learners and posits personal success as essential for academic achievement and learners who continue to thrive. We employ conferencing, high-quality learning conversions, and scaffolding with no written feedback as our evaluation and feedback approach.
Principal
Laura Smith
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