Teaching Assistant (TA)

Required for June 2021 or earlier

Age range: 11 - 18 

Graduates welcome to apply

Strive, Succeed, Surpass

Are you an experienced TA looking for your next step? Or are you a graduate looking for your first step into education and teaching? Do you believe in excellent standards of provision to improve the life chances of children and young people?

We are looking for Teaching Assistants to join our fantastic team at Caterham High in Redbridge. You will have a range of responsibilities including supporting our teachers in the to meet children’s needs, helping children to maximise achievement, and ensuring our children are aspirational in their development. 

This is a great opportunity for colleagues who are motivated to inspire learning in children with varied and complex needs. Your work will be challenging and rewarding in equal measure. We maintain a strong safeguarding culture, where pupils are listened to, respected and involved in as many decisions as possible.

Excellence is always at the top of our agenda. We pride ourselves on the quality of our work. We are looking for colleagues who can work with individuals and small groups of children, leading intervention lessons as required, and building positive relationships with pupils and parents or carers.

You will be committed to incredible futures for young people by empowering them within our school community, to be happy and to make their way in the world.

You will be calm, engaging, resilient, enjoy working as part of a team, and be genuinely motivated by helping every child to reach their potential. You will be good at forging good professional relationships with all members of the community that you work with at Caterham High.

The Inclusion department boast a highly successful Hearing-impaired provision, where resourcing is shared across Inclusion. We have rooms dedicated to small group learning and a dedicated ‘Zen Den’ specifically focusing on the social emotional and mental health needs of our children. 

Caterham High School is on a journey to excellence. If you would like to join us, working in an exciting period of development and change, then we would like to hear from you. 

We strive to achieve aspirational outcomes and provision for our children and young people, set within a culture of inclusion and high expectations. 

Ofsted noted (Sept 2018) that there is “energised leadership” and “absolute clarity” about our next steps. The report also noted that students’ behaviour is consistently good in lessons and that they are respectful and contribute positively to the school’s work and culture. 

Newly Qualified Teachers/Early Career Teachers are welcome to apply. There is strong and valued CPD for all staff, including an excellent programme for NQTs/Early Career Teachers and trainee teachers. We are active participants of the Seven Kings Learning Partnership which also provides a wide programme of CPD including a residential for NQTs/Early Career Teachers.

We are a community school that serves a richly diverse area of East London, with many ethnic groups and languages represented. We have good facilities, including sports facilities, and opportunities to teach across the full age range. 

Our staff are well known as friendly and welcoming. There are staff activities such as football, badminton and yoga. Staff have free access to our fitness suite and free parking. 

We warmly welcome an informal telephone conversation prior to application. Visits to the site are by arrangement after the school day - visitors will need to follow our Covid safety protocols.

Are you interested? If so, please contact Debby Venner (HR Manager) for more information - the application pack and form are on our website. 

Completed application forms should be e-mailed to D.Venner@ecaterham.net by Monday 17th May at 10am. Interviews will be scheduled over a period of time starting in the week beginning Monday 17th May. The school will assess applications immediately on application and reserves the right to interview and appoint a suitable candidate before the closing date. 

If you have not received a response within 2 weeks of the closing date you should assume you have not been shortlisted.

The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.  Offer of a position is subject to receiving satisfactory references and an Enhanced DBS Clearance.