Teaching Assistant

September 10, 2024

Dorset Councils

Wareham

OTHER

Teaching Assistant - Sandford St Martin's CE VA Primary School

LEARN – LOVE – LAUGH: at Sandford St Martin’s CE VA Primary.
Full time hours (Part-time considered to secure the best people!)
The governors and leadership team of our school wish to appoint a committed, experienced and professional Teaching Assistant to become part of our team and help support our fantastic children. This role is primarily to ensure successful schooling for children who have Complex Communication Needs including Autism and/or high anxiety/emotional needs. At our school our staff work with a range of children in a mutually supportive team. We aim for our children to develop a range of positive relationships with regular access to trusted adults.
The main aspects of this role will include you:

supporting/managing transitions (into school first thing, within lessons and to/from social times)
providing safe, engaging, active and sociable playtimes and lunchtimes – including routines, games and social skills, building friendship skills and social understanding over time.
supporting consistent strategies to help children regulate their behaviour and communicate well, including during learning/lessons
supporting the reduction of barriers to learning and helping children to understand/channel ‘big feelings’ appropriately
providing movement breaks, sensory support and short burst rewards for a small number of children – including supporting children to make good choices about their readiness to learn
acting on and implementing advice/strategies from other professionals/SEND team members and being a valued member of this team
implementing EHCP provisions and communicating with the children’s parents/staff team

The closing date for this role is 22/09/2024 and interviews will be held in the week commencing 23/09/2024.
Letters of application should indicate why you believe you are the right person for the role, outlining your experience and passions. Any questions should be directed to office@sandfordprimary.dorset.sch.uk

Sandford St Martin's CE VA Primary School values the diversity of our workforce and welcomes applications from all sectors of the community.
Sandford St Martin's CE VA Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people; this is a commitment which we expect all staff and volunteers to share. The successful candidate will be required to have a Disclosure and Barring Service check in line with the Governments safer recruitment guidelines.
The pro rata salary shown is based on the number of hours and weeks worked and includes appropriate paid annual leave and bank holiday entitlements.
The salary quoted is the annual salary for the position at the time of advert. The salary will be paid in equal monthly instalments and will be adjusted at the start of employment and again if leaving part way through the school year to ensure the correct salary is received for the work completed in an academic year.
This role is UK based and your Right to Work will need to be established as part of the appointment process.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (2013 and 2020)) provide that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. The MOJ’s guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.
Keeping Children Safe in Education
Sandford St Martin's CE VA Primary School will conduct online searches of shortlisted candidates. This check will be part of a safeguarding check, and the search will purely be based on whether an individual is suitable to work with children. All aspects of social media and internet searches will be conducted. As care must be taken to avoid unconscious bias and any risk of discrimination, a person who will not on the appointment panel will conduct the searches and will only share information if and when findings are relevant and of concern.

We regret to inform you that this job opportunity is no longer available