Teaching Assistant required for Dorothy Stringer School – 18 hours per week
(Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, term-time only)
Closing Date : Midday on Tuesday 7 January 2025*
Interview Date : TBC
Salary: Scale 4a (Points 9 – 10) £26,409 - £26,835
Actual pro rated salary (£11,701 - £11,889)
Starting Date: ASAP
Our school is ‘Good’ (Ofsted 2023), being one of the most popular and successful 11-16 mixed comprehensive schools in the Preston Park area of Brighton, consistently over-subscribed.
Our curriculum is broad and balanced and offers many exciting opportunities for all students, both in school and out. There are tremendous extra-curricular opportunities at Dorothy Stringer through sport, performing arts, the Junior Leadership Team, Art on-going links with our partner schools in Africa, the Duke of Edinburgh award, as well as a number of other trips. In short, we believe there is something for everyone at the school.
The main purpose of the job is to work, under the instruction of senior staff, to undertake support programmes which enable access to learning for students and to assist the teacher in the management of students and the classroom. Work may be carried out in the classroom or outside the main teaching area. An excellent opportunity for someone with an aspiration to teach.
For further details see the Person Specification and (attached).
HOW TO APPLY
Application is by application form with a supporting letter. Your application should take account of the Person Specification. In line with our safer recruitment Policy, we cannot accept C.V.s.
See application form and associated paperwork attached. Please return your completed application to Katie Booth/ Alex Mitchell, at recruitment@dorothy-stringer.co.uk If you have a problem replying electronically please contact the school on 01273 852222.
Dorothy Stringer is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and comply with the Department of Education Statutory Guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’.
Safeguarding Information - safeguarding – Dorothy Stringer School (dorothy-stringer.co.uk)
*We reserve the right to appoint a suitable candidate before the closing date.