Level 3 Teaching Assistant
Crown Hills Community College
Leicester
- £17,272.96 - £17,272.97 per year
- Job type:
- Full Time, Temporary
- Apply by:
- 8 January 2025
Job overview
Dear prospective applicant,
In the top 12% of schools nationally, Crown Hills Community College blends a 70-year history of inclusive education with an innovative, forward-looking approach to providing a state education like no other to 1500 students from inner city backgrounds.
The School now seeks to appoint an exceptional individual to work alongside 190 other staff to make up our education family. Specifically, we are looking for a Level 3 Teaching Assistant to work as part of the SEND department with a particular responsibility for our ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) students.
You would join a well-established SEND department comprising the SENDCo, SEMHCo, SEND teacher, and team of 10 SEND Teaching Assistants, 2 Nurture Teaching Assistants, and a SEMH support worker. We currently have 18 students with an EHCp on roll and support students with a range of needs, including ASD, Visual Impairment, Hearing Impairment, Learning Difficulties, ADHD, Speech, Language and Communication, and Social, Emotional and Mental Health needs. We have excellent working relationships with outside agencies to work collaboratively to meet the needs of our students. This role will support ASD students one to one in lessons and for ASD specific interventions.
Over the past three years, the school has changed significantly not only in its performance but in the way it operates. We are not interested in the OFSTED grade or judgement and it is not something that we use to threaten staff with nor do we use it to set policy. We do what is best for the staff and the students underpinned by a set of clear values and we trust that everything else will take care of itself. I would therefore, urge you to visit us and to look at our website and the video about what it is that we stand for and why you would want to join us.
I want us to be at the forefront of educational excellence because we want to provide the best educational experience possible for the children in our care. This is extremely difficult in a climate of ever-increasing accountability and diminishing resources. However, I sincerely believe that if we lead this community by staying true to our values then it is possible.
I have therefore spent time with staff and exploring what it is we stand for and, after a school-wide consultation, we have decided that ASPIRATION, COMMITMENT and SUCCESS are the three key drivers that will support the development of our pupils.
We believe that the curriculum is king and that the way it is sequenced, will help our students to make progress. We have taken a very clear stance on knowledge-first teaching and place an emphasis on memory recall as well as responsive teaching.
In order to be successful you need to buy into this pedagogy and practice as it underpins our philosophy and the way the curriculum should be delivered to our students. As a member of support staff who supports the delivery of the curriculum, it is important you understand and align to our college principles.
We are very clear that the gender, background, colour, poverty, wealth or social status of a child should have no bearing on how well they perform and staff here work extremely hard in trying to close that gap between the different groups of pupils.
Please read the attached job description and person specification. If you are interested in applying, please fill in the application form available on our eteach portal, please include e-mail addresses of all referees, together with a letter of application (no more than 2 sides of A4, font 12) outlining your skills, qualifications and experience relevant to this post by 9am on Wednesday 8th January 2025. Please include your cover letter in the supporting statement section. Interviews likely to be week commencing 13th January.
I look forward to receiving your application.
Yours sincerely,
Mr F Adam
(Principal)
Attached documents
About Crown Hills Community College
- Crown Hills Community College
- Gwendolen Road, Leicester
- Leicestershire
- LE5 5FT
- United Kingdom
Our aim has always been to make Crown Hills Community College one of the best schools to attend as a child and to work in as a member of staff.
The last few years have been amazing for our college community, as we have started to gain external recognition for the way we are doing things; from being shortlisted twice for the TES well-being school of the year in 2022 and 2023, to being one of five schools to win the Silver Award for the Pearson's secondary school of the year.
Every decision that we take is done with a lot of thought and consideration and we put well-being at the centre, so that teachers can teach and students can learn.
Therefore, we are not a college that is driven by OFSTED and whether we are GOOD or OUTSTANDING but we do things because they are at the very essence of helping our children and school community to be the best that they can be.
We have nearly 200 staff and 1500 students. Our mission is simple, we want every student to be the best that they can be, thrive in the best possible career and contribute positively to society.
We are very clear that the gender, background, colour, financial or social status of a child should have no bearing on how well they perform and staff here work extremely hard in trying to close that gap between the different groups of pupils.
We are well oversubscribed, even though we have increased our PAN from 240 to 300 pupils, we have more applicants than we have spaces. Our P8 score has also increased year on year and we have fluctuated between the top 12% and 20% of schools nationally. We are particularly proud that our PP pupils achieved a score of +0.17 in 2023.
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