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Teaching Assistant

Teaching Assistant

Stoke Damerel Community College

Plymouth

  • Expired
Salary:
NJC Grade B, scale pt 3 - 4 (£22,737 - £23,114 fte per annum)
Job type:
Part Time, Permanent
Apply by:
15 April 2024

Job overview

Teaching Assistant

Job Type: Permanent

Salary/Grade: Grade B, scale pt 3 - 4 (£22,737 - £23,114 fte per annum)

Hours: 27.5 hours per week x 39 weeks per year

Actual Salary: 27.5 hours = £14,573 - £14,815 per annum

Application Deadline: 11:59pm on Monday 15th April 2024

Job Start Date: As soon as possible

Stoke Damerel is a vibrant and forward-thinking community of teachers and learners. Our students, staff and governors believe that Stoke Damerel is a very special college - caring, happy, aspirational. We have an excellent teaching and support staff team who demonstrate and encourage a lifelong love of learning, within and beyond our curriculum. 

The Greenshaw Learning Trust is a forward thinking, dynamic and growing organisation and is ambitious for its staff. This is an exciting time for us as we grow and develop and we are committed to providing a supportive and inclusive environment for our staff, as well as our students. 

We are looking to recruit a Teaching Assistant to be part of a team which supports our young people throughout their school day. Providing pastoral, academic support and delivering interventions to help create and maintain a purposeful learning environment.

A selection of duties and responsibilities

● Supervise and provide particular support for students, including those with special educational needs, ensuring their safety and access to learning activities.

● Assist with the development and implementation of Individual Education/Behaviour plans and Personal Care programmes.

● Establish constructive relationships with students and interact with them according to individual needs.

● Promote the inclusion and acceptance of all students and encourage students to interact with others and engage in activities.

● Set challenging and demanding expectations and promote self-esteem and independence.

● Provide feedback to pupils in relation to progress and achievement under guidance of the teacher or line manager.

● Monitor students’ responses to learning activities and accurately record achievement/progress as directed.

Greenshaw Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All teaching and support members of staff must undertake the required pre-employment checks which include the uptake of references both professional and personal and a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.

You will have access to a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme and a full range of staff benefits. 

To apply for a staff vacancy, please register for an online account to complete the application form. Please visit our website GLT Vacancies

If you require further details please email hr@sdcc-smhc.net 

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found.

Close date: 11:59pm on Monday 15th April

Interview date: TBC

About Stoke Damerel Community College

Stoke Damerel Community College is located in Plymouth, a vibrant waterfront city in the South West packed full of historical interest, cultural attractions and set in an area of natural beauty.

We are an oversubscribed 11 - 19 secondary school and form part of Greenshaw Learning Trust, a Multi Academy Trust, which is a family of like-minded schools, that collaborate to provide mutual support, share their good practice, and learn from each other, whilst retaining and developing their own distinctive character.

Our passion is to support and develop our students to realise their full potential and prepare them for the next journey of their lives.  We have high expectations of both staff and students and believe that every student has the right to learn, every teacher has the right to teach and every support member of staff has the right to offer valued support: This creates a disruption free learning environment in which students and staff can flourish, feel safe, respected and valued.

Our ethos supports our vision  - Aspire, Achieve, Thrive.  Head to our website homepage, or contact us and discover why this is a truly great place to work.

“Stoke Damerel Community College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment”.  All teaching and support members of staff must undertake all the required employment checks which include, but is not limited to, the uptake of references both professional and personal and a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.

We welcome visits from all potential applicants. This can be arranged by emailing: hr@sdcc.net.

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Applications closed