Vacancy for Level 3 Teaching Assistant
Permanent, Part time (33.5 hours per week)
Term Time Only (39 weeks per year)
Grade 5 SCP FTE £25,584 - £27,269
Actual Annual Salary £19,995 - £21,794
We are a Multi Academy Trust comprising of six secondary schools and one primary school with over 700 employees and over 5,000 students, based in Dudley, West Midlands.
We are seeking a Teaching Assistant to implement agreed work/care/support programmes with individuals/groups and support teaching staff in the development and education of students including the provision of detailed and specialist skills/knowledge in particular areas. We are a highly successful and increasingly popular oversubscribed 11-18 comprehensive school of around 700 students, situated in the picturesque village location of Kinver on the western fringe of the West Midlands. The school has undergone rapid growth in recent years due to its popularity, moving form a 4-form entry in Year 7 to 6-form entry. The school operates its own designated school coach transport service, which means that our intake spans 5 local authorities and our parents and students choose to come to us, making Kinver the non-selective ‘selective’ school.
We are sure that once you visit us and meet our students, you’ll find we are the school for you and your career journey, our CPD through school and in partnership with Invictus is exemplary.
We want the very best staff for our students and look forward finding out if you are that person. We would strongly encourage you to get in touch and arrange a visit.
Please contact Miss Laura Chamberlain on 01384686830 for further information.
Closing date: 10th January 2024 at 9am
We do reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.
Interviews due to take place: To be confirmed
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. An enhanced DBS check is required for all successful applicants
In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024, as a part of our recruitment process, we will carry out an online search on shortlisted candidates to identify any comment, image or other content that could cause reputational damage to the trust and/or give rise to a safeguarding concern. If we discover anything during our searches this will be passed onto the recruitment manager and discussed during interview.
We are deeply committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of Children and expect all Staff and Volunteers to share this commitment. All necessary Safeguarding checks will be undertaken which must have satisfactory outcomes, otherwise the conditional job offer may be withdrawn. Details of the checks that will be undertake can be found at: Keeping Children Safe in Education, 2024 – KCSIE 2024
This role has been assessed as working in regulated activity and is subject to an Enhanced DBS plus Children’s Barred List Check.
It is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website:
Positions at the school are exempt under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to a post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). DBS Filtering guidance can be found on the GOV.UK website.
As a Trust we are committed to ensuring that throughout our recruitment and selection process, no applicant will be disadvantaged or discriminated against because of the protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010.