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SEND Teaching Assistant - Term Time - Special Needs Position

Ebbsfleet Green Primary School, Swanscombe

  • Ref:KCC886-2140-43S
  • Posted:23/11/2023
  • Pay:D2 point 4 - £23,114 FTE
  • Start Date:January 2024
  • App Close Date:07/12/2023 at 12:00
  • Interviews:8th January 2024

Advert

Hours: 37 hours per week, 39 weeks per year (term time)

Start Date: January 2024 or sooner 

Ebbsfleet Green is a values-based learning community, committed to the education of the whole child. We are looking to appoint a highly motivated experienced SEN teaching assistant, who enjoys working collaboratively, to join our supportive and successful team. You will be a dedicated professional, committed to ensuring the best life chances for children, and someone who is keen to develop their knowledge and skills of best practice. You will have experience of working with children with ASD and support our wider SEN team with the development of strategies and resources.

We have children from nursery to year 3 with a specialist provision for children with ASD and we will eventually grow into a two form entry school as the Ebbsfleet Green Community grows around us.

WE have a great opportunity for an experienced Learning Support Assistant to join our team. You will be well organised, IT literate and have excellent communication skills both written and verbal. It would be advantageous to be qualified to NVQ3 or equivalent and have experience of supporting students with specific needs..

If you have:  

  • A commitment to the Ebbsfleet Green community and our intention to put Ebbsfleet Green Primary School at its heart. 
  • A passion for learning and the skills to impart knowledge and develop skill sets in our children. 
  • A commitment to self and team development.

In return we will offer you:: 

  • A new and bespoke curriculum designed to draw upon the opportunities that working in a new school in a Garden City will bring. 
  • National terms and conditions 
  • Local Government Pension scheme
  • Tailored programmes of CPD with possible cross trust development opportunities 
  • Early Salary Access Schgeme & financial advice (Wagestream) 

Further information about this post, the school and Trust is in the attached candidate information pack. 

Please note: we may hold interviews as and when applications are received and we reserve the right to offer to a candidate prior to the closing date. We only accept applications submitted online via the TES website and which are completed before the closing deadline. With this in mind, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible. 

The Trust and its academies are committed to recruiting with care and safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. The post is subject to a successful Enhanced DBS check and pre-employment checks may be undertaken before an appointment is confirmed

 

Information about the school

Ebbsfleet Green Primary Academy is part of the Maritime Academy Trust, an innovative partnership of schools in Greenwich, Bexley, Kent &Medway. Our academies transform through collaboration and an entrepreneurial curriculum which equips children with life skills.

Ebbsfleet Green Primary School is based in Ebbsfleet Garden City, Kent. We opened in September 2020 and we are growing year by year, as the Ebbsfleet Green community grows around us.

We take pride in our creative and and entrepreneurial curriculum as it not only engages children, but challenges them to develop the skills - as well as the knowledge - befitting of the 21st Century. At Ebbsfleet Green we will give all children an exciting, innovative educational excellence to support them to become the best they can be. We know our children will leave our school ready for the next stage of learning.

We love being part of the Ebbsfleet Garden City community and work in active partnership with residents, parents, carers and local businesses. We believe that by listening and being partners with our community, we will deliver an education to our children that will create respectful, compassionate and inquiring life-long learners.

We are proud to be part of the Maritime Academy Trust. All Maritime schools have outstanding behavioural expectations to ensure children feel safe which supports them to learn to the best of their abilities. As part of Maritime we champion the key behaviours of Adaptability, Creativity and Innovation, Humility, Collaboration, Humour & Positivity and Supportiveness & Trust.

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We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students. You are advised that this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and therefore this post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). Please be aware that schools are also required to undertake online recruitment checks on shortlisted candidates under changes to Keeping Children Safe in Education.