Contract Academic Support Teaching Assistant at Dorset Councils
Job Description
ACADEMIC SUPPORT TEACHING ASSISTANT
Grade 5 – SCP 4 – SCP 6 – (£10.79 – £11.18 per hour)
Working Hours: 30.25 hours per week – Monday to Friday
Flexible working requests will be considered including possibilities for part-time/reduced hours or flexible start and finish times. Please talk to us at interview about flexible working options.
Term Time Only
Starting Salary £14,635 (Full time equivalent salary)
To start: As soon as possible
Queen Elizabeth’s School is looking to appoint an Academic Support Assistant to provide support in the teaching and learning process for our students. Support is both on a one to one basis and also in groups. There may be a special needs element where you will work with pupils with disability, learning difficulties or behavioural problems.
- Are you a people’s person?
- Can you establish a rapport with young people?
- Do you enjoy working with like-minded professionals who strive to challenge and support young people?
- Have you ever considered exploring a career in education?
Experience in this field or of working in a school environment would be an advantage but full training will be provided for this post.
We are:
- A creative and proactive upper school with high expectations for students
- We work hard to support our students
- We value our staff
- We are part of the community
We can offer:
- A friendly and supportive department
- A busy and lively environment
- A positive, supportive community of staff, Academy Committee Members and parents
- An exciting school with state-of-the-art facilities
- Opportunities for further learning through ELSA roles
- An active well-being programme to support staff to achieve an appropriate work-life balance
- A Health Cash Plan & Cycle to Work Scheme
- LGPS Pension scheme
Closing Date for Applications is Monday, 17th April, 2023 at 9.00am
For and Application and Information Pack please visit:
https://www.eteach.com/careers/queenelizabeths/
The pro rata salary shown is based on the number of hours and weeks worked and includes appropriate paid annual leave and bank holiday entitlements.
This role is UK based and your Right to Work will need to be established as part of the appointment process
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (2013 and 2020)) provide that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. The MOJ’s guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.
Keeping Children Safe in Education
We will conduct online searches of shortlisted candidates. This check will be part of a safeguarding check, and the search will purely be based on whether an individual is suitable to work with children. All aspects of social media and internet searches will be conducted. As care must be taken to avoid unconscious bias and any risk of discrimination, a person who will not on the appointment panel will conduct the searches and will only share information if and when findings are relevant and of concern.
The salary quoted is the annual salary for the position at the time of advert. The salary will be paid in equal monthly instalments and will be adjusted at the start of employment and again if leaving part way through the school year to ensure the correct salary is received for the work completed in an academic year.
Location :Wimborne
Closing Date :17 April 2023
HOW TO APPLY
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