Student Development & Support Assistant
Oakwood Park Grammar School
Kent
- New
- Salary:
- Oakwood Scheme
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- ASAP
- Apply by:
- 13 September 2024
Job overview
Salary £23,807 to £25,252 per annum FTE (£19,455 to £20,644 pro rata) depending on experience
35 hours per week, Term Time plus Staff Development Days
We are looking to recruit an Assistant for our busy Student Development and Support Department. We are looking for someone who is proficient in a range of software including Excel and Word as well as being confident in their ability to learn our school-based software systems. The successful candidate will be working face to face with students on a 1:1 and small group basis. They will need to possess excellent administrative and organisational skills, and be confident in their ability to work in a classroom setting in order to observe lessons. A prior understanding of SEN would be an advantage but also an open mind and willingness to learn as directed would be beneficial.
If you have strong empathetic skills and a desire to support children, please complete the application form attached (which is also available on our website www.opgs.org) along with a covering letter by the closing date of midday on Friday 20th September 2024 to Mrs J Nichol at jnichol@opgs.org
We reserve the right to close this vacancy before the closing date if a suitable candidate is appointed.
Please note applications will only be accepted on the school application form, CVs and other forms are not accepted.
Oakwood Park Grammar School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with former employers and Enhanced DBS check.
Attached documents
About Oakwood Park Grammar School
Oakwood Park Grammar School is a five-form entry (usually 160 in each year) Boys’ Grammar School of approximately 1100 students, including the Sixth Form. We have a co-educational Sixth Form with a pan of 180 in each year group. Entry at 11 to the school is through the Kent Test (11+) where students sit three papers in Mathematics, English and Reasoning.
We have been on the site since 1959 and we share an attractive campus with two schools (St Augustine Academy and St Simon Stock) and a college of Further Education (Mid-Kent College). We remain committed to improving school facilities and providing high quality learning environments for our students. Our teaching and support staff are dedicated and hardworking and very loyal to the school.
Oakwood Park Grammar School has a wealth of extra-curricular activities for its students. Sport is very strong with national success in football, alongside rugby, cricket, basketball and athletics. We also cater for rowing, fencing, table tennis and climbing. Music and Drama are also popular with an annual production and brand new facilities which opened in October 2023. Other extra-curricular opportunities include robotics, debating and chess.
Academic standards are high at both GCSE and A Level. In the Sixth Form, on average, well over half of our students who apply to universities will secure offers from prestigious Russell Group universities and we regularly send students to Oxbridge colleges.
In 2024, an ungraded inspection made clear the school continues to be ‘Good’ overall by Ofsted. However, our grading of Outstanding for our Behaviour and our Sixth Form provision remains.
We are a welcoming, open school with a clear focus on developing staff, with teaching and learning at the heart of our professional development.
Headteacher
Mrs Sarah Craig
Values and vision
At OPGS, we hold firm on our responsibility to deliver a broad and balanced curriculum, an exceptional standard of teaching and learning and a wide range of extra-curricular opportunities. We have high standards of behaviour and our pupils are ‘polite and courteous,’ contributing significantly to our consistently positive learning environment.
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