SEN Teaching Assistant
Fitzwaryn School
Denchworth Road, Wantage, Oxon, OX12 9ET
- £17,670.24 - £19,146.16 per year
- Salary:
- Grade 6, point 8-13
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 6 January 2025
Job overview
The Propeller Academy Trust is committed to creating a diverse workforce. We’ll consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to sex, race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, pregnancy or maternity, age, disability, marriage, or civil partnership.
Job details
Location: Fitzwaryn School, Denchworth Road, Wantage, Oxon, OX12 9ET
Salary: Grade 6, point 8-13. Hourly rate £13.47-£14.60. Actual salary £17,670.24-£19,146.16
Hours: Up to 30 hours a week, to be worked from Monday to Friday between 8.45am-3.15pm. 38 working weeks plus 5.6 weeks paid holidayper annum.
Contract type: Full time (Part time hours are available). Permanent
Reporting to: Headteacher
Responsible for: N/A
Start date: ASAP (subject to the completion of all necessary checks)
Main purpose
Would you like to join our happy and caring school where teaching and therapies combine to support the development of each child? We are looking for an enthusiastic, inspirational, and creative teaching assistant to join our team of hard-working friendly people within this special school supporting pupils with learning difficulties.
Fitzwaryn School is a very friendly and extremely successful school for children and young people aged 3-19 years. Our pupils have a range of learning difficulties, including moderate and severe learning difficulties, PMLD and autism.
The school is part of The Propeller Academy Trust. The school was judged Outstanding by OfSTED in all areas in May 2022.
We would like to hear from you if
- You have good numeracy, literacy, and ICT skills (GCSE Level 4 or equivalent in English and Math’s is desirable)
- You have the ability to work with a range of children and young people with additional and complex needs
- You are a team player who can build good working relationships with colleagues
- You are flexible, enthusiastic, and resilient, with a good sense of humour
- You are committed to ongoing personal development
- You have high aspirations in teaching and learning for all children and young people
What can we offer you
- The opportunity to work with a progressive and forward-thinking multi-academy trust, where you are making a difference to the lives of young people.
- Opportunities for development and career progression
- Extensive induction programme and ongoing CPD and training
· A range of staff benefits including one wellbeing day per term (after a qualifying period, pro rata for part time employees), access to an Employee Assistance Programme and a workplace pension scheme (LGPS)
- Free eye test for DSE users
- Free flu vaccinations
- Wellbeing days (3 per year, pro rata for part time staff)
- Free tea and coffee
- Refer a friend bonus (up to £500)
- A positive and friendly working environment
How to Apply
https://thepropelleracademytrust.face-ed.co.uk/vacancies
For further details, and to download an application form, please visit https://www.fitzwaryn.oxon.sch.uk/vacancies. Please note that CVs will not be accepted.
Visits to the school are welcome by arrangement.
Application Timeline
Applications will be considered on receipt and interviews arranged accordingly.
Please note, the school reserves the right to close adverts if a sufficient response is received. Early applications are therefore advised.
If you have not received communication from the school inviting you for an interview within ten working days of the closing date of the post, you can assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We thank you for your interest in the school and encourage you to apply for suitable vacancies in the future.
The Propeller Academy Trust and its member schools are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and young people according to child protection and safeguarding guidelines. We expect all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.
This post is classed as having a high degree of contact with children or vulnerable adults and is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. All post holders are subject to the necessary pre-employment check, including a satisfactory Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check, including a Child/Adult’s Barred List check (where applicable to the role in question).
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About Fitzwaryn School
- Fitzwaryn School
- Denchworth Road, Wantage
- Oxfordshire
- OX12 9ET
- United Kingdom
Fitzwaryn School is a Special School and is part of The Propeller Academy Trust. We are located in Wantage, Oxfordshire.
Fitzwaryn is for children from 3 to 19 years whose special needs range from moderate (MLD) to severe (SLD) and profound multiple learning difficulties (PMLD) Currently there are 122 pupils on roll. The new Student Centre building opened in September 2018, providing spaces for more pupils to be admitted into the school. The school is continually oversubscribed.
The curriculum is organised so that children with similar needs can work together; each class has a mix of needs ensuring inclusion for all our pupils. Generally, each class teacher is responsible for all curriculum areas with individual subjects led across the school. Our organisation is flexible allowing individual needs to be catered for.
The school policy is to broadly follow National Curriculum subjects for all pupils from 3 – 16 years old and an Adult Curriculum model from 16 – 19 years of age thus meeting individual learning needs and encouraging the development of each child’s social and independence skills. School trips and residential visits are an important part of the curriculum offered by the school. A PMLD curriculum is in place for those pupils with more complex needs for whom National Curriculum subjects are not applicable.
The school offers accreditations; during 2023 – 2024 for the sixth form pupils we are transitioning to the offering of Entry Level Qualifications in Skills for Further Learning and Employment via Open Award.
Students can also work towards their Duke of Edinburgh Awards; we were delighted that in July 2023 some of our pupil achieved their Silver Awards.
Our Year 10 and 11s are working towards Open Awards Skills Passport.
Pupils can also achieve their Entry Level Functional Skills in English and Maths
Sport plays an important part in the school's curriculum. Pupils swim either at the local pool or at Kingfisher school when they need hydrotherapy, and there is a range of both competitive and non-competitive sports offered, as well as the use of PE apparatus and more specialised equipment for children with particular disabilities. Many of the pupils are involved in competing in sports events with other schools, both mainstream and special, and all pupils enjoy many outside trips.
In recent years Fitzwaryn’s choir has grown in popularity and they practice at lunchtime. The choir sings at local events e.g. the mayor’s carol concert.
Fitzwaryn School serves an area from Faringdon to Wantage, but a number of pupils come from Didcot, Abingdon, Oxford and surrounding villages. We also have pupils from the neighbouring Local Authorities of Berkshire and Wiltshire.
Fitzwaryn is the registered office for the Propeller Academy Trust and many of the central team are based within the school.
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