Teaching Assistant Level 1

Teaching Assistant Level 1

Required for September 2024 (Permanent)

27.5 Hours per week Monday to Friday term time only

5.5 hours per day (Breaks 55 minutes)

Grade 2, SCP 2 (£22,366 per annum pro rata)

•    Do you like a challenge?
•    Are you ready for a change?
•    Do you want to make a real difference?

If your answer is yes, then we want you to work for us!

We are wishing to enhance our current team of Teaching Assistants and have several positions available for September 2024.  

We are looking for individuals who really want to make a difference to our children’s lives.

Crosby is a wonderfully unique community where no two days are the same.  Working here will give you great job satisfaction and the knowledge that you make a difference every day.

We would love to hear from you and discuss how your skills can be utilised working with our wonderful children.

We can offer you:
•    A supportive environment with friendly staff
•    A truly diverse workplace
•    Good quality continuous professional development
•    Genuine job satisfaction, with the knowledge that you make a difference

We are looking for:
•    A professional, with a good understanding of primary education and how children learn
•    A colleague who is flexible and welcomes the fact that two days are never the same!
•    An excellent communicator with children and colleagues

We asked our team what it’s like working at Crosby:
•    “Fun! Always entertaining, never a dull moment”
•    “togetherness”
•    “supportive and caring”
•    “uniquely challenging but extremely rewarding”
•    “friendly”
•    “team working environment”
•    “one big family”
•    Ofsted: “Pupils enjoy a safe, calm, orderly environment where everyone is valued equally.”
(Ofsted rated Good, September 2023)

If you are interested in working in a truly inclusive, multicultural school then please contact Mrs Andrea Ingall, PA to the Headteacher, on 01724 844216 for further details.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect the same commitment from all staff and volunteers.

We would like to thank you for your interest in this vacancy. If you are invited for an interview you will be contacted by the school.  For feedback on your application, please contact the school directly.

Visit our website to meet the team: www.crosbyprimary.co.uk

COME AND JOIN US!

Closing date:    Friday 26th April 2024 at 12:00 noon
Shortlisting:    Monday 29th April 2024
Interviews:     Wednesday 8th May 2024 

Why join us?

We offer:

Competitive salaries

Local Government Pension Scheme with employer contributions up to 18.5%

Generous annual leave and Bank Holiday entitlement

Flexible and agile working

A modern workplace with access to great technology

Salary sacrifice schemes- ie the option to purchase additional holidays or a bike to cycle to work

Family friendly policies supporting fostering, adoption and caring responsibilities

Our values and culture

We stay true to our values:

Equality of opportunity so everyone can have a good quality of life.

Striving for excellence and high standards.

Using our resources wisely and with integrity.

Promoting self-responsibility and people having choice and control over their own lives.

Our organisational goals are to be:

Progressive and enabling in our approach.

Financially and environmentally sustainable.

Safer recruitment

As an employer, we will:

· Promote and safeguard the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from existing and prospective employees or volunteers.

· Commit to the recruitment of a diverse workforce to best meet the needs of our customers.

· Ensure that recruitment decisions are based on reasonable and objective criteria, free from bias or unfair discrimination.

· Provide training for recruiters to ensure they are fully equipped with the skills to recruit the best people.

· Make reasonable adjustments to any aspect of the process to meet individual need, where known.

Please note that new guidance in Keeping Children Safe in Education 2022 requires us to carry out an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted candidates. This to enable us to identify any incidents or issues which have happened and are publicly available online which we might want to explore at interview. Once shortlisting has taken place, this search will be carried out for all candidates who will attend an interview.

All applicants must be permitted to work in the UK and hold a relevant work permit where necessary. If you have lived or worked outside of the UK in the last 5 years, we will also require additional information in order to comply with safer recruitment requirements. Any job offer will be conditional on the satisfactory completion of the necessary pre-employment checks and receipt of satisfactory references which will be sought prior to interview.

The above post will be subject to a DBS check, satisfactory references and will be exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. DBS Code of Practice which can be viewed here (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ds-code-of-practice) 'It is an offence for anyone barred from working with children or adults to apply to work in regulated activity with that group'

This post is also subject to satisfactory references, proof of right to work in the UK and other pre-employment checks where applicable.