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Teaching Assistant - Full-time

Ebbsfleet Academy, Swanscombe

  • Ref:KCC886-4001-443S
  • Posted:17/04/2024
  • Pay:Actual salary £20,161 per annum (£23,337 full time
  • Start Date:TBC
  • App Close Date:29/04/2024 at 12:00
  • Interviews:TBC

Advert

Ebbsfleet Academy is seeking to recruit a suitably experienced Teaching Assistant to join their support team from June 2024. Our appointed candidate will join Ebbsfleet Academy, receiving fantastic training and development opportunities from the off-set with the scope to positively influence our students’ learning. This role will suit experienced TAs who are looking to join our academy, and also be suitable for graduates looking to gain first-hand experience with a view to commencing Teacher Training with us in the future. There is also scope to progress into a Higher Level Teaching Assistant if this is something the successful candidate would like to pursue.

In the role of Teaching Assistant, our successful candidate will implement structured learning activities/teaching programmes and support pupils in accessing learning activities under the guidance of the class teacher. You will also provide feedback to pupils in relation to their progress and achievement in order for pupils to realise their full potential and manage classroom activities safely ensuring that the physical learning space and the resources within this space are conducive to pupil learning.

This is a permanent role offering an actual salary of £20,161 per annum (£23,337 full time equivalent) based on 37 hours per week, Term Time + 1 week of inset. 

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Information about the school

Welcome to Ebbsfleet Academy, where we are committed to doing whatever it takes to make sure all our students receive an outstanding education and achieve exceptional things. We are an extremely ambitious school community and believe there are no excuses for not achieving your absolute potential.

Ebbsfleet Academy opened in September 2013; we are on a journey to become an over-subscribed school that children walk to, with their friends, where they enjoy coming and a school of which they feel proud. We are building an ethos that creates a belief that we can all achieve our goals and better our futures. We are developing independent, resilient and respectful individuals, who are ready to learn for themselves. We want all our students to achieve the highest qualifications they can, but also to fulfil all their potential, academic and personal, sporting, creative and artistic. We want our pupils to leave school as well-rounded, confident young people, with an awareness of the wider world, and a desire and ambition to play an active part in it, all of which is encapsulated in Ebbsfleet Academy’s motto - Aspire and Excel!

We are a dynamic and successful 11-18 academy serving the local community. We have students of all abilities and from a wide variety of backgrounds, all of whom contribute to the richness of our school population. Our curriculum is based around the needs of our students and consists of a rich blend of academic and vocational qualifications, all supported by fantastic learning resources. We are extremely proud of our record to date, of our constantly improving results and of our 'Good' Ofsted outcome (October 2019). We have a clear commitment to the highest of expectations and achievement for all, with an excellent team of committed staff and outstanding facilities.

Values and vision - To be an outstanding community academy, whose focus is on learning, as well as on personal and social development, and to be ambitious for all regardless of circumstance. At Ebbsfleet Academy our aim is to get the best out of every student; excellence in teaching and learning is therefore at the heart of our work. - Our ambition is to ensure that all of our students achieve their potential, develop as courteous, confident and capable young people and leave with an education that has fully equipped them to go on to university or the career of their choice.

Our vision is based on three core values: - ‘Be Ready, Work Hard, Be Nice’. In working towards instilling these values in our students, we strive to provide a safe, healthy and stimulating environment for all.

Ofsted report “The principal leads Ebbsfleet Academy with passion and energy. She is committed to improving outcomes for all pupils. Her leadership, through insistence upon a ‘no excuses’ culture, has led to significant improvements across the school’s work. She and other senior leaders have a shared sense of responsibility to continually improve the school and this is inspiring staff and pupils alike.”

'We are an extremely ambitious school community and believe there are no excuses for not achieving your absolute potential.' Gurjit Kaur Shergill, Principal

Job Contact Information

  • Name:Talent Team, Leigh Acadamies Trust
  • Address:Carnation Road, Strood, Kent, ME2 2SX
  • Telephone: 01634 412200
  • Email: talent@latrust.org.uk

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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.