Early Years Teaching Assistant- St Benedict Biscop Ce Primary School

St Bartholomew’s CE Multi Academy Trust

Level 3 Early Years Teaching Assistant

(Ref: SBMAT231)

Permanent, Term Time Only

Grade 4, Spine Point 7-11

Actual Salary £17,648.74-£18,872.83

31.25 Hours Per Week / 44.85 weeks paid

REQUIRED TO START: SEPTEMBER 2024

Location: St Benedict Biscop CE Primary School, Wombourne, WV5 9DZ

The Directors are seeking to appoint an Early Years Teaching Assistant who is keen to join our fantastic, thriving school. 

St. Benedict Biscop was inspected in March 2023, securing an overall Good judgement with Outstanding Early Years, Behaviour and Attitudes, Personal Development and Leadership and Management.  We are now looking for an enthusiastic Teaching Assistant to join our Early Years Team, to continue our successful journey. The school is part of St. Bartholomew’s Multi-Academy Trust.

What are we looking for:

This is an exciting opportunity for someone to join our friendly and supportive team.

We are seeking a Level 3 Teaching Assistant to work within our Early Years Team. Experience of working in Early Years across both Nursery and Reception would be an advantage. Our foundation stage is the beginning of our children’s journey at our school. As a member of the EYFS team, you support our whole school ethos to provide the best opportunities for the children in our care.

We are looking for a child centred, motivated and enthusiastic individual, who will support the Christian Ethos of our school.  Working alongside the class teachers to support children to achieve their full potential.  Working as part of a team but also independently to meet the needs of individual children.

We can offer you the opportunity to work with wonderful, happy children and a supportive school with relevant training.

You will have:

• Good interpersonal skills
• Positive and hard working
• Be punctual, reliable and have a flexible working approach
• Be able to work as part of a team  

Your responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the class teacher within lessons
• Supervising individual or groups of children at during independent learning interacting positively and supporting play
• Delivering interventions for individual and groups of children
• Under the direction of the class teacher supporting specific lessons.  

You will enjoy working in a team, have a caring approach and a positive attitude.  You will be confident to follow school procedures and demonstrate a commitment to keeping children safe.

St Bartholomew’s CE Multi Academy Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS, Prohibition List, Barred List, Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work. All applicants will be required to provide two suitable professional references.

It is an offence to apply if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. For further information, please refer to the Trust's policy on ex-offenders.

Safeguarding and Child Protection Policies for all schools within St Bartholomew's CE Multi Academy Trust are available on the respective schools' websites. Links to all of our schools are available from the homepage.

With effect from September 2022 and in line with keeping Children Safe in Education, shortlisted candidates may have their publicly available social media profiles (where applicable) checked by the Trust for posts going back up to 5 years and those candidates will therefore be expected to provide their social media “handles/platforms” if shortlisted.

Visits to the school are warmly welcomed please call the office to arrange an appointment (01902 892197).

Closing Date: Monday 8th July 2024, at 9:30am

This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.

To apply: please complete the application form and equality recruitment monitoring form and submit to jobs@stbartsmat.co.uk quoting reference SBMAT231 in the subject line of your email. Further information is available at www.stbartsmat.co.uk/vacancies.