Job start date: 24 February 2025
Hours per week: 32.5 term time only
Location: Ninestiles, an Academy
Hartfield Crescent
Birmingham
B27 7QL
Telephone number: 0121 628 1311
Contact email: recruitment@summitlearningtrust.org.uk
Contract type: Permanent
About Us
Ninestiles, an Academy is seeking a highly motivated and enthusiastic person to join our team as Level 3 Teaching Assistant working with students who have English as an additional language. Working under the instruction of SLT, you will collaborate with teaching colleagues to support the delivery of quality learning, teaching, and assessment to help raise standards of achievement for all learners.
Minimum Requirements
To be considered for this post, you must hold an NVQ Level 3 qualification (minimum entry requirement) and ideally have experience in working with learners, preferably those with additional needs. You must possess the skills and passion to positively impact our learners, demonstrating commitment, enthusiasm, and energy to inspire them every day. You must also show your ability to interact well with learners and teachers alike in a culture built on the values of mutual trust and respect.
Responsibilities
As an EAL Teaching Assistant, you will be working with our EAL team. Alongside the class teacher, you will supervise outside-class learning for pupils identified as needing extra support or intervention.
Desirable Skills
It would be advantageous if candidates could demonstrate the following:
1. Experience of supporting pupils with speech, language, and communication needs.
2. Experience of working with pupils with cognition and learning needs, enabling collaboration with teachers to differentiate/scaffold learning tasks and activities for pupils working significantly below age-related expectations.
3. An understanding of pupils’ sensory differences.
4. Experience of helping pupils to understand and regulate their emotional responses and develop a greater sense of self-awareness, independence, and resilience.
5. Working knowledge of a range of interventions and approaches to enhance literacy and numeracy development.
Benefits
We offer a range of wellbeing and work-life balance benefits to recognize and reward the essential contributions our colleagues make to our success and growth. These include access to:
1. Employee assistance programme.
2. High-quality training and support in and across academies enabling career progression.
3. Wellbeing advocates.
4. Lifestyle benefits and discount schemes, including gym discounts and cycle to work scheme.
5. Health protection scheme alongside flu jab and eyecare vouchers.
6. Generous employer pension schemes.
7. Excellent holiday entitlement.
Application Process
We positively welcome applications from all sections of the community. Summit Learning Trust is proud to be an equal opportunities employer and is determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favorable treatment on the grounds of gender reassignment, age, disability, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy/maternity, or race.
This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016). Therefore, the ability to speak fluent and spoken English is an essential requirement for this role.
How to apply: Please visit our website
Please note we do not accept CVs.
This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including: enhanced DBS; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work.
All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references. An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates.
This post is not part of the City Council, and the successful candidate will not hold a Birmingham City Council Contract of Employment.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013, and 2020. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.
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