Permanent Teaching Assistants - Term Time - Special Needs Position

Shenstone School, Crayford

Ref:KCC303-7001-24S
Posted:18/10/2019
Pay:BEXLEY 05 (11.50 per hour)
Start Date:Immediate
App Close Date:11/11/2019 at 09:00
Interviews:Tuesday 26 November 2019 @ Shenstone Crayford

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Permanent Assistants based at Shenstone School Crayford / Sidcup to start ASAP

Permanent Teaching Assistant (9.00am-3.45pm - 39 weeks per year on a permanent basis)

Grade Bexley 5 (£11.50 per hour)

Tour of both sites: Friday 1 November 1.30pm at Crayford and 2.30pm at Sidcup

Closing Date for Applications: Monday 11 November 2019 at 9.00am

Interviews: Tuesday 26 November 2019 at Shenstone Crayford site (Times TBC)

Are you looking for a challenge and able to support/encourage our amazing pupils with SEND to achieve their full potential in our specialist primary school setting?

Our school needs caring, resilient and enthusiastic staff to support the children alongside our vibrant and dedicated team.

In return we offer comprehensive and continued training; including Manual Handling, and Team-Teach training, as well as other relevant professional development. We are working towards an accreditation in Well-Being and are proud of our excellent induction processes, rewards and pension scheme. The Shenstone team are strong, supportive, and creative; we are looking for keen candidates to join us on our journey to ensure the best outcomes for all of our pupils.

The achievements of our pupils are extraordinary and will give you a sense of achievement when they make progress, however small. In-house training will be given on all aspects of the job, although a level of knowledge or understanding is an advantage. Teaching Assistants support pupils aged from nursery through to Year 6. Behavioural needs vary from child to child so you will need to be both confident and resilient in working with challenging behaviour.

The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Offers of employment are subject to a satisfactory enhanced DBS disclosure and other employment checks. This post is considered to be a customer-facing position; as such it falls within scope of the Code of Practice on English language requirement for public sector workers. The school therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the person specification. These will be applied during the recruitment/selection and probationary stages. References will be requested for those short listed ONLY and prior to interview. Only those shortlisted for interview will be contacted.

To apply for this vacancy please download and complete the attached application form which you may either return directly to the school or email to jobs@shenstone.bexley.sch.uk.

Details are on our school web site www.shenstone -tkat.org/.bexley.sch.uk . You may also contact the school office to request an application pack. The school office will be closed for the Half Term break from 4.30pm on Friday 18 October until Monday 28 October at 8.30am.

Please note that we are now part of The Kemnal Academies Trust and you need to apply using the TKAT application form.

PLEASE SEE INSTRUCTIONS ABOVE FOR DETAILS OF HOW TO APPLY.

Information about the school

Shenstone School is an all-through specialist school for children and young people with severe and/or profound and multiple learning difficulties. Although we currently have a temporary facility for our secondary students, a specially adapted secondary school is currently being built in Halt Robin Road, Belvedere. We opened our doors to our secondary provision in September 2022 when we welcomed our first cohort of pupils and we now currently have one year 8 and two year 7 classes.

Our staff are passionate about providing our students with the best learning opportunities. Working in partnership with parents and carers, we successfully foster and develop a positive attitude in our young people and support them to have opportunities that will allow them to achieve beyond their expectations. The support and guidance students receive from staff give them the confidence to learn independently and strive to achieve their most aspirational outcomes. The school positions itself as a centre of excellence for its students, parents/carers, staff, local authorities and the wider community.

We aim to ensure that all students have the maximum opportunity to participate fully in society to enhance their life chances. We pride ourselves on ensuring that learning remains purposeful but is equally fun. We are committed to supporting the emotional health and well-being of all our students, staff and parents/carers, and we stand by our motto of “Together we engage, thrive and achieve”.

We are very proud of Shenstone School and our achievements, which include autism accreditation through the National Autistic Society, The Wellbeing Award for Schools, Outstandingly Happy School status, Move Centre of Excellence Award, National Online Safety Certified School status, and we are also an accredited Arts Award Centre. We continue to expand with new ideas and initiatives to maintain and improve services for students and staff.

Staff at Shenstone School can access the following benefits: excellent induction and probation processes, comprehensive in-house training, competitive pension scheme, employee counselling services, vaccination programmes, on-site mental health first aid team and various other well-being and social activities.

Job Contact Information

Name:Georgia Bissett
Address:94 Old Road, Crayford, Kent, DA1 4DZ
Telephone: 01322 524145
Email: hr@shenstone-tkat.org

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