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Teaching Assistant

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Posting date: 09 September 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: Actual salary £18,721 per annum (£24,404 full time equivalent)
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 23 September 2024
Location: Maidstone, Kent
Remote working: On-site only
Company: Leigh Academies Trust
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 007563

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Summary

Leigh Academy Oaks has an exciting opportunity to appoint an enthusiastic, motivated and experienced Teaching Assistant to join our highly collaborative and supportive team. Our teaching support team is pivotal to our success in the classroom and provides a great deal of support for our teachers, and this position for an TA will strengthen the team even further with their knowledge, experience and additional support that they can provide our teaching staff with.

Our successful candidate will be able to establish strong working relationships with staff and students alike, be able to work as part of a team and will be reliable and excellent communicators. Our new TA will work to support children struggling with confidence or with any additional needs across EYFS and Key stage 1. You will support class based and small groups/1:1 interventions to ensure children can progress confidently.

Our successful candidate will be;

Enthusiastic, energetic and adaptable

Capable of working independently and in a team

Able to motivate and support pupils

Able to work with individual pupils and small groups of pupils

Able to demonstrate experience with interventions and learning support

Candidates should have a minimum of a Level 3 NVQ or equivalent and have experience of working within a primary school

Possess an unending desire to help all children achieve their best

Possess a caring nature and a deep regard for children

An exemplary communicator with patience and experience of working with children with additional need or low confidence.

Join our team because:

We care - about our pupils through our human scale approach to education, our staff and their well-being and the communities that we serve, driven by our high ideals and strong moral values.
We have boundless ambition - to achieve excellence for all and create confident young adults with high levels of resilience and integrity.
We work together - as one team in the belief that we are greater than the sum of our parts. We foster an enterprising culture through collaboration and in close partnership with industry and other educators.
We keep getting better - using our ‘can-do’ attitude towards continuous improvement and innovation.
This is a permanent role offering an actual salary of £18,721 per annum (£24,404 full time equivalent) based on 33 hours per week, Term Time + 1 week inset.

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