Teaching Assistant
Caludon Castle School
Coventry
- Expired
- Salary:
- Grade 3 – £16,123 to £18,070 - salary is £12,046 to £13,501 pa pro rata
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- As soon as possible
- Apply by:
- 25 June 2017
Job overview
We are looking to appoint a teaching assistant to be part of our friendly and hardworking student support team. In the last couple of years Caludon has invested into this team and actually increased the number of support staff to ensure the young people in our school achieve their full potential.
We renamed the Teaching Assistants in our team to Student Support Mentors and this is because all Student Support Mentors have a cohort of students that they get to know and mentor. This opportunity is for a Year Student Support Mentor whereby you would be a key worker to an identified year group, inspiring and enthusing a number of identified students to achieve their termly targets, and also to provide assistance to classroom teachers with timetabled intervention/support.
Our student support team really is integral to the school’s vision to ensure young people overcome barriers to learning. Ideally you will be a graduate with excellent numeracy and literacy skills so that you can support the young people in our school with their English and Maths. You will be approachable, enthusiastic, motivated and resilient and able to support our vulnerable students as well as our most able, encouraging them to become independent learners.
This is a unique opportunity to combine providing specialist support in a traditional teaching assistant capacity, mentoring a cohort of students, whilst also observing a wide range of lessons across all subjects and years, enabling you to glean good practice from colleagues and teachers. This post would suit an experienced Teaching Assistant or someone looking to enter teaching, as the position would offer school-based experience prior to applying for a PGCE or School Direct opportunity.
Through the leader in our student support faculty, we provide comprehensive induction training so that you can shadow our other staff, get a really good understanding of our systems and policies and have the opportunity to ask questions and get to know our students during your induction programme.
Caludon Castle has a great deal to be proud of; we are a caring school that achieves high standards. We have excellent resources in a modern, well equipped building, with a well-planned IT infrastructure and outstanding sports facilities. We offer a range of benefits which includes cycle to work and childcare voucher schemes, discounted gym membership, free parking and an employee discount scheme.
If you are passionate about improving students’ life chances, as we are, please contact Emma Over, HR Director for information, an informal discussion about the post or to arrange a visit.
Application packs are available to download on the school website www.caludoncastle.co.uk and www.wmjobs or from Emma Over via email: HumanResources@caludoncastle.co.uk Application forms should be returned to Emma Over by 9.00 am on Monday 26 June 2017 via email to: HumanResources@caludoncastle.co.uk.
This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to this post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). This School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
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About Caludon Castle School
Caludon Castle School is a mainstream, co-educational, non-denominational secondary academy for children aged 11-18. It is situated in Wyken, just outside Coventry in the West Midlands, and it is currently oversubscribed, with 1,500 pupils on its roll.
Caludon Castle School converted to academy status in 2013 and is the lead school in the Castle Phoenix Teaching School Alliance, which provides outstanding teaching programmes for trainee and existing teaching staff.
Headteacher
Sarah Kenrick
Values and vision
Caludon Castle School’s motto is "Respect for all, from all". Students are encouraged to value their learning and strive to achieve to the best of their ability. The secondary school offers a wide range of support for children and their families, including trained councillors, youth workers and career advisers.
As part of the Castle Phoenix Teaching School Alliance, Caludon Castle School works hard to deliver well-qualified staff who meet pupils’ individual needs and offer opportunities for all.
Ofsted report
“Teaching is good across the academy overall and in English, drama, music; history and science inspectors saw evidence of outstanding teaching over time. Teachers are using the academy’s new assessment system effectively to plan lessons that meet the needs of pupils well. Spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is a strength in the academy. Pupils in the main school and learners in the sixth form have an excellent understanding of the wider world, their responsibilities as future citizens and the importance of respect and tolerance. Behaviour is good in lessons and around the academy because the expectations of leaders and teachers are high. Pupils arrive at lessons keen to learn.”
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