Teaching Assistant: Language & Literacy Intervention

We are seeking to appoint a flexible, hardworking and conscientious Teaching Assistant to support our literacy and language programmes and English teaching departments.

Main duties of this role will be to deliver language/literacy interventions with our Key Stage 3 and 4, ensuring that students can access the curriculum and to develop their English literature and language. This will include the ability to deliver English curriculum and ESOL to targeted groups of students, full training can be provided on this aspect if the successful candidate does not hold this existing experience.

This position may suit an individual with a child-centred approach who has a passion for the psychological wellbeing of the students in their care whilst ensuring their English language and literacy skills continue to improve.

What we can offer you:

• Excellent facilities and resources.
• A chance to become part of one of the largest groups of academies in the country.
• Caring, dedicated and friendly students who want to learn and fulfil their potential.
• Colleagues who are supportive, friendly and who are committed to each other’s professional development.
• Access to the local government pension scheme.

In return we are looking for:

• Someone who has a good knowledge of literacy intervention programmes such as Read Write Inc.
• Someone with previous experience in a similar role or is a qualified Teaching Assistant.
• Someone who is experienced in working with students from diverse backgrounds including EAL.
• Someone who is a team player.
• Someone who is a role model to our students.
• Someone who is passionate in the power of education to ensure all students achieve their potential.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join an Academy making significant progress. In turn, we are looking for a candidate committed to playing a part in transforming the lives of our young people. Please see the job description and person specification for further information. We are happy to consider applications from both individuals with recent relevant experience or qualified teachers.

About the School:

• A United Learning academy.
• Sheffield Park Academy is rated as ‘Good’ by Ofsted.
• Our whole-school ethos of ‘the best in everyone’ underpins our core values of ambition, confidence, creativity, respect, enthusiasm and determination. Our aim is to send every student out into the world instilled with these values, as well as the right knowledge, skills and qualifications, so that they are ready to play their part in it.
• The closing date for this post is Monday 29 November 2021 at 12:00 noon.
• Sheffield Park Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check is required for all successful applicants.
• United Learning values diversity and inclusion and is committed to creating and sustaining a more diverse workforce. We welcome applications from professionals of minority ethnic origin and from majority ethnic professionals who share our commitment to inclusion and diversity. We will be applying the Rooney Rule to the shortlisting process.

United Learning

Sheffield Park Academy is part of United Learning, a large, and growing, group of schools aiming to offer a life changing education to children and young people across England.

Our schools work as a team and achieve more by sharing than any single school could. Our subject specialists, our Group-wide intranet, our own curriculum and our online learning portal all help us share knowledge and resource, helping to simplify work processes and manage workloads for an improved work-life balance.

As a Group, we can reward our staff better with good career opportunities, better pay, benefits and ultimately, the satisfaction of helping children to succeed. We invest in our staff wellbeing. Our academies each have at least eight INSET days per year (with three of those solely dedicated to planning), and an ongoing group-wide wellbeing programme. It's an ethos we call ‘the best in everyone’.

For a confidential discussion about this role, please contact:

Lawrence Youel, HR Manager, 0114 239 2661, Lawrence.youel@sheffieldparkacademy.org

To Apply

Please apply online by clicking on the following link: https://unitedlearning.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/2445578?cid=1567&rsid=0&js=0&LinkType=1&FromSearch=False

Closing date: Monday 29 November 2021

Interviews: TBC

Where support is better shared

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