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Teaching Assistant Teaching/Child Support - Part-time

Copperfield Academy, Gravesend

  • Ref:KCC886-2024-196S
  • Posted:29/03/2017
  • Pay:8.25 per hour
  • Start Date:Apr 2017
  • App Close Date:31/03/2017 at 12:00
  • Interviews:To be confrmed

Advert

Copperfield Academy is seeking to appoint Special Needs Teaching Assistants with experience supporting children with additional needs to reach their full potential. 

The post will be fixed-term (subject to review). The salary will be £8.25 per hour, 32.5 hours per week (8.30 - 3.30 pm), 39 weeks per year (44 weeks with holiday entitlement).   

Experience of working with children on the Autistic Spectrum or ADHD is preferred and candidates must be able to demonstrate a knowledge of the skills required to do this type of work.

In particular, the successful candidates would be able to demonstrate how to support a teacher with planning and resourcing for children with a variety of needs.  The people we are seeking for these posts must be reliable, flexible and support the ethos of commitment through hard work in the school, and they should be willing to update and share their skills as well as learning from the expertise of the other members of staff.

Candidates must have a good standard of general education with previous experience of working with children. They must have excellent interpersonal skills with both children and adults, be committed to safeguarding children and be an enthusiastic team player.

The role will also incorporate supervising pupils on the playground at lunch time for half an hour.

Information about the school

Copperfield is an old and long-established Northfleet School, having opened as Dover Road School in 1904.

Increasing success in recent years has meant we are fast becoming a very popular school with local families, and we currently have the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren here of former pupils. We are known for extending a warm welcome to families that are new to Gravesend and to many families new to the UK.

As part of the nationwide REAch2 Academy Trust, leaders and staff at Copperfield are committed to working hard to ensure it is a happy school where pupils of all ages thoroughly enjoy their learning and being at school. We consider ourselves to be a supportive extended family of, and for, all our families that is able to meet the needs of the most-able and the most-challenged.

It is now formally recognised that Copperfield Academy is a good school, and a vibrant school. Classrooms are calm and purposeful places, where pupils learn in a safe atmosphere. Leaders are determined that every pupil’s experience, regardless of their individual needs, is a positive and successful one. As a result, pupils flourish and thrive.

Job Contact Information

Fax: 01474 352413

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.