Role: Level 2 Teaching Assistant School: Bishop Aldhelm’s CE Primary School Hours: 30.41 hours per week, term time only including inset days. 8:40am to 3:15pm, Monday to Friday Salary: Level 5 to 6 Grade D £24.790 to £25,183 FTE annual, awaiting confirmation Closing date: Monday 4 November 2024 Interview date: Friday 8 November 2024 Start date: TBC Bishop Aldhelm’s Primary is a school with high expectations and standards. We are seeking to recruit a highly motivated and experienced individual to join our team. If you are ready for a new challenge and enjoy working with an organisation where no day will be the same, then please apply. We are seeking to appoint a dynamic, committed and inspiring Teaching Assistant to join our hard-working, dedicated, happy team of staff and children and provide support to both Educational Health Care Plans and SEN children. The successful applicant will be assigned to individual pupils who are in need of additional help because they have learning difficulties including autism and require additional help understanding or completing tasks. You may be asked to help support small groups of pupils. Should you have a Level 3 Early Years qualification and are interested in working in our popular After School Club, please feel welcome to include this in your application. Further Information Job/person summary: You will need to: be creative in your approach work well as part of a team as well as independently and be able to use your initiative have excellent communication skills with children, staff and parents have experience with working with children with additional needs We have a very focused curriculum aimed to achieve high standards. We are looking to recruit colleagues who could enhance our provision and who are committed to making the ‘school experience’ engaging, enjoyable and meaningful for primary – aged children. HET is a large, fast-paced Trust with currently 35 academies across the South Coast. Linked to 6 community-based partnerships, there are 32 primary academies, 2 secondary and 1 hospital school. In February 2022 OFSTED judged our school to be Good, confirming all judgements from our July 2015 inspection. In November 2023 we received a very successful SIAMS Inspection. SIAMS https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/sh2-bishopaldhelms-poole-sch-uk/media/downloads/siamsreportbishopaldhelmschurchofenglandprimaryschool144873211123.pdf OFSTED https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/sh2-bishopaldhelms-poole-sch-uk/media/downloads/final10212152bishopaldhelmschurchofenglandprimaryschool144873finalpdf.pdf At Bishop Aldhelm's our vision is ‘Loved By God; United in Learning.' Loved by God reflects our theological underpinning with our vision centred on Psalm 23. 'The Lord is our shepherd, we have everything we need.' is the foundation of our Bishop Aldhelm's values of love, courage, unity and inspiration. United in Learning reflects our educational underpinning. As with 'Loved By God', 'United in Learning' applies to all members of our school community. As a staff team, we work towards 5 pillars that enhance our professional culture: effective communication, culture of challenge, everyone's a learner, collective responsibility, psychological safety. By focusing on these 5 pillars throughout our practice, we benefit the learning and experiences for all at Bishop Aldhelm's. If you are ready for a new challenge and enjoy working with an organisation where no day will be the same, then please apply. ‘All about the Child’ At HET, we aim to put the child at the centre of everything we do. We believe that by doing this, it drives our ethos and values to do the best we can for our children. ‘What about Sam’ Sam is the name we have given to the notional Hamwic child. By asking ourselves ‘What about Sam?’ we ensure that we put our pupils at the heart of our decision making. About Us We can offer you: excellent CPD opportunities and training and development programmes in-house teaching school an individual induction programme supported by a mentor networking groups for Teachers, Business Managers, Site Teams and IT staff eligibility to join the Teachers’ Pension Scheme or Local Government Pension Scheme generous holiday entitlement for staff working 52 weeks per year which increases with length of service free eye tests up to the value of £25 for users of VDU equipment and contribution up to the value of £60 towards the purchase of glasses specifically for the use of display screen equipment, where all conditions are met opportunity to become a school workplace health and wellbeing representative, meeting with other schools on a termly basis and feeding into the health and wellbeing strategy access to the trust health and wellbeing pages access to a staff benefits portal through Vivup free confidential telephone and face to face counselling for staff and family members Application procedure: Should you wish to apply for this vacancy, please view the job description and complete the application form which can be found at www.hamwic.org and return to Mrs Heidi Moxam on Email: [email protected]. Where applicable, potential candidates may benefit from a tour of the school. Please note, any candidates requesting a tour will be asked for their current place of work which will allow the school to verify, where possible, the name and place of work given. Potential candidates will be asked to bring their current school ID and/or photographic ID as proof when they visit the school for a tour. Successful candidates will be subject to online searches. Safeguarding: All schools within HET are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks. The Greenway Partnership The Greenway Partnership is part of an umbrella Trust called the Hamwic Education Trust. At the Hamwic Education Trust we offer unique opportunities for those individuals that excel in education. We aim to deliver an outstanding education to our pupils and to do so we must employ outstanding people. We offer a training pathway for all employees including teachers, support staff and our middle and senior leaders. Our staff have opportunities to work on cross phase projects and to work in other schools within the Trust in order to gain invaluable experience and enhance their skills.