1:1 Teaching Assistant - Part-time

St Katherine's School & Nursery, Snodland

• Ref:KCC886-2118-319S
• Posted:09/02/2024
• Pay:Kent Range 3 - Actual £13,381 (£21,293 pro rata)
• Start Date:Term 4/5
• App Close Date:23/02/2024 at 09:00
• Interviews:To be advised

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St Katherine's School & Nursery is a vibrant and thriving school who have over the past few years gone from strength to strength. We are part of the Coppice Primary Partnership Trust, a small primary trust, focused on individuality and an ethic of excellence. This allows staff increased professional development opportunities, collaboration working beyond our school and increased career opportunities.

We wish to appoint a 1:1 Teaching Assistant to work as part of our team to support a pupil with specific learning needs.  This is a fixed term contract for 27.5 hours/week until 31 August 2024, term-time only.

Hours will be Monday to Friday 9.00am-3.00pm, with 30 minute unpaid lunch break.

 Are you:

• Able to work under direction and guidance of the class teacher?
• Do you have a passion for SEND?
• Able to work as part of a team?
• Flexible and caring?
• Good communicator?
• Able to support class and individual needs?

We can offer you:

• Enthusiastic and motivated pupils
• Friendly, supportive and dedicated team
• Well-resourced school with exciting curriculum
• Excellent learning environment including superb grounds
• Commitment to continuing professional development and training

The benefits of joining Coppice Primary Partnership:

• Excellent professional development
• The support of committed, enthusiastic and dedicated colleagues
• A supportive and challenging environment
• Pupils who are eager to learn and a credit to the school
• Supportive parents
• Access to private healthcare, including 24 hour GP access
• A family first approach – cover to ensure that you don’t miss important family events
• Free access to wraparound care for primary aged children attending trust schools when staff are required to work. This includes access to the holiday play scheme.
• The holiday play scheme is also open and free to staff who have children who attend other schools when staff are required to work.
• All staff have access to Kent Rewards, a site offering cash back, discounts and vouchers for a range of popular high street stores
• Throughout the year, school and trust wide social events will be available. These will all be optional, but we believe in developing relationships and social events can certainly help! Events will be informal affairs, usually in informal settings and are open to all staff
• A large, modern and well-resourced primary school, set in excellent school grounds, where opportunities for high quality outdoor learning are facilitated
• An opportunity to share a real, relevant and engaging curriculum.

Please contact Nicola Rodmell on 01634 240061 for more details or to arrange for a visit to the school.

Closing date for application is Friday 23 February 2024. Interview date to be confirmed.

Please note, we review applications on a rolling-basis and will therefore close the advert early if we find the right candidate, we look forward to receiving your application.  

St. Katherine's School & Nursery is fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children.  The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check, satisfactory references, health questionnaire etc.

Information about the school

Looking to join a school on an exciting journey? Would you like the opportunity to make a real difference to children’s future aspirations? Then St Katherine’s is the place for you! “Pupils are joyful and are proud of their aspirational and welcoming school” - OFSTED 2024.

We have a wonderful team and delightful children, who epitomise our strong values of respect, resilience, responsibility, community, compassion and excellence. At St Katherine’s, we passionately believe that everyone plays their part in ‘creating our future by learning together’ – and this includes you!

We have extensive, rural grounds and outstanding facilities, which include our own swimming pool, art studio, a purpose built forest school area, sensory rooms and a fantastic library, with its own reading vending machine. These resources, alongside carefully planned enrichment activities, support us to deliver an exciting curriculum, which is motivating to teach and inspires our children to ‘See Beyond Snodland’.

We are looking for someone who is passionate about shaping children’s lives. Someone who inspires children through their high expectations and ability to bring learning to life. Someone who is dedicated to their own professional development and is keen be part of the next stage of the school’s journey – and what an exciting journey it is!

We can offer you a warm and supportive learning environment, a dynamic and aspirational team and inspirational children, who love their learning experiences and contribute significantly to the wider life of the school.

If the prospect of joining us on the next phase of our journey excites you, we would very much welcome your application

The benefits of joining Coppice Primary Partnership:

Children who are articulate, compassionate, willing and eager to learn

Access to private healthcare, including 24/7 GP access

Annual flu jab

A family first approach – cover to ensure you don’t miss important events

Free access to wraparound care for primary aged children attending trust schools

The holiday play scheme is also open and free to staff who have children who attend other schools when staff are required to work.

Kent Rewards, a site offering cash back, discounts and vouchers

A large, modern and well-resourced primary school, set in excellent school grounds, where opportunities for high quality outdoor learning are facilitated

An opportunity to share a real, relevant and engaging curriculum.

Job Contact Information

• Name:Mrs N Rodmell
• Address:St Katherine's School & Nursery, St Katherine's Lane, Snodland, Kent, ME6 5EJ
• Telephone: 01634 240061
• Email: nrodmell@st-katherines.kent.sch.uk

Documents

Below are documents that have been added to this vacancy.

• 1:1 Teaching Assistant - Person Specification
• 1:1 Teaching Assistant - Job Description