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SalaryJob starts: May 2024
Salary: Scale 3 Point 5-6 - pro rata
Contract type:Part time
Hours: 3 hours per day (12:30PM - 15:30) Monday to Friday, total of 15 hours per week
Contract term: Temporary until 31 December 2024
Partnership for success
Are you ready to be part of a dynamic staff team dedicated to nurturing young minds and fostering a love for learning? We're excited to invite applications for the position of Teaching Assistant to join our passionate team. The successful candidates must have at least a Level 3 qualification relevant to this post.
We welcome applications from candidates that:
- Are passionate about education and dedicated to supporting the development of young learners
- Have a genuine interest in working collaboratively within a dynamic team environment
- Possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage effectively with pupils, colleagues, and parents
- Demonstrate resilience, adaptability, and a positive attitude towards challenges and opportunities
- Are committed to their own professional development and eager to contribute to the continuous improvement of our school community
- Value diversity and inclusion, fostering a welcoming and supportive environment for all members of our school community
We can offer you
- Curious children, who love learning
- Collaboration opportunities with supportive, forward thinking and dedicated teams
- An extensive wellbeing offer for staff, pupils and families and a Leadership team who promote wellbeing and academic success equally
- Free breakfast everyday from 8:00AM - 8:30AM
Before deciding to apply you will want to find out more about the school - To arrange a visit and/or informal discussion about this post, please contact Helen Mawer on 020 84716172.
Further information about our school can be found on our website - Selwyn Primary School Website
Closing Date: 22 April 2024 at 9:30am
Interviews: w/c 22 April 2024
PLEASE NOTE
- Applications will be reviewed and shortlisted on a rolling basis and we reserve the right to interview, appoint and close the advert early depending on the volume of applications we receive. We therefore encourage you to apply at the earliest opportunity to avoid disappointment. We will only be contacting those candidates who have been selected to progress to the next stage of the process. Please note we do not have parking facilities onsite.
- Selwyn Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. This appointment will be conditional on successful pre-employment checks. Identity, Prohibition, Qualification, Barred List, Enhanced DBS, Section 128, Overseas, Right to work, Reference, Criminal Record and Medical Checks are essential for all applicable posts at the School.
- In accordance with paragraph 221 of Keeping Children Safe in Education (2023), Selwyn Primary School will carry out an online search for all shortlisted candidates.
Selwyn is a happy and successful school located in Plaistow, East London. We are at the heart of this culturally rich community where we are able to offer purposeful and exciting learning opportunities for all. Everyone within our learning community has high aspirations and we work hard to make learning fun and relevant to each individual.
We all have high expectations of behaviour and this has created a wonderfully positive and calm environment where everyone is respected and treated fairly. This emphasis on a happy, calm and focused learning environment ensures that our children can progress and achieve their potential.
Our broad and balanced curriculum, is designed to engender a love of learning that our children will take to the next stage of their education.
Our school is part of Newham Community Learning, which exists in order to provide an excellent education for all young people in our community. We are the only Trust to offer all-through provision from ages 2 - 16 within a single family of schools in Newham. Across our two primary and four secondary schools, all located in the west of the borough, we educate over 5,400 local children and young people, and employ a team of close to 700 members of staff, the vast majority of whom live locally.
To view opportunities at all our schools, please see our Trust page on TES.
Train with us - we are delighted to partner with Teach First to deliver our School Centred Initial Teacher Training (SCITT) programme. Teach First is a national charity that develops and supports teachers and leaders who are determined to make a difference where it is needed the most. As a training partner, we will be working with Teach First to deliver this one year teacher training programme, which enables participants to train and develop skills in the classroom. It is ideal for people who are eager to learn on the job and make a difference in their community from day one. Our Newham Community Learning SCITT Booklet has further information; please email traintoteach@ncltrust.net to find out more. Please note that this programme is currently aimed at secondary teaching staff.
