Teaching Assistant
St Elizabeth's School
Hertfordshire
- £19,871 - £20,699 per year
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- As soon as possible
- Apply by:
- 16 December 2024
Job overview
Teaching Assistant
Location: St Elizabeth’s, Much Hadham (10 minutes from Bishops Stortford & Harlow)
Contract type: term-time only - Monday to Friday each week, 39 weeks per year
Salary: £19,871- £20,699 per annum (£12.36 - £12.87 per hour)
Do you want to start your career in education? Or are you an experienced Teaching Assistant looking for an opportunity to work with students on a 1-1 basis to reach their potential?
We are seeking caring individuals with a passion for educating and developing children and young people. It is an exciting time to join St Elizabeth’s School as we look to grow our offer and increase our admissions for 2025 and beyond. You will become part of a dedicated and friendly team of staff, committed to providing the very best in learning support.
What you’ll be doing
- Supporting students with complex learning needs in their academic and personal growth, fostering a positive and nurturing learning environment
- Assisting teaching staff in planning and delivering tailored lessons and activities to meet individual needs and abilities
- Ensuring a safe and inclusive learning environment, promoting independence, equality, diversity, and respect
- Implementing individualised education plans, behaviour and personal care strategies to support students' progress
- Occasionally supporting learners with personal care and administering medication (full training will be provided)
What we are looking for
- We are looking for passionate individuals to support our children and young people to provide them with opportunities to “live life to the full”.
- Previous experience of working with children in an education and/or care environment is desirable
- Someone with good literacy and numeracy skills, that is able to communicate effectively with young people with learning disabilities
- Good ICT skills and ability to work effectively as part of a team
Why work for us
Based across 60 acres of beautiful countryside, St Elizabeth's is a charity supporting children, young people and adult day clients with epilepsy and other complex medical conditions, the severity of which impacts upon their health, social, behaviour, learning and emotional development.
Over the past 120 years, St Elizabeth's has grown and developed to comprise a non-maintained special School for both boarders and day students, a specialist Further Education College, domiciliary care for College learners, Supported Living in the community, a comprehensive Day Opportunities programme for adult day clients and 24 hour health provision provided by specialist nurses and therapists. In addition, we also offer the following great benefits:
- A supportive and collaborative working environment
- Term-time only role - Monday to Friday each week, 39 weeks per year
- Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, 8:30 – 16:00. Tuesdays, 8:30 – 17:00 and an early finish on Fridays, 8.30 – 15.45!
- Onsite training and assessment team delivering a variety of learning opportunities and development opportunities
- Recommend a friend payment of up to £500! (T&Cs apply)
- Based at our beautiful countryside location in Much Hadham
- Free onsite parking
- Discounted on-site canteen
- Paid enhanced DBS
How to apply
Please complete an application form and upload an up to date CV on our website. All offers are conditional and subject to receipt of satisfactory pre-employment checks and references including an enhanced DBS check. Please note we are not on a public transport route. The salary range advertised is based on full-time equivalent and appointment on the scale is dependent on the role, qualifications, and experience. Applications will be reviewed, and interviews scheduled on a rolling basis; therefore, we recommend that you apply sooner rather than later. We reserve the right to close an advert if we receive sufficient applications ahead of the deadline.
Diversity & Inclusion
At St Elizabeth’s we embrace diversity and aspire to create a diverse and inclusive working culture. We are proud to be recognised as an Investor in People and to hold Disability Confident status. We are an equal opportunities employer welcoming all applications from across the community.
Safeguarding
St Elizabeth’s Centre is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, vulnerable adults and young people. The successful applicant will be required to undertake an enhanced disclosure through the Disclosure and Barring Service. Some of our positions involve regulated activity relevant to vulnerable children, adults and young people. It is a criminal offence for people who are barred from working in regulated activity to apply for roles that require them to work unsupervised with that particular group. Our vacancies are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
Registered Charity 1176777
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About St Elizabeth's School
Welcome
St Elizabeth's School is a Specialist School for young people aged 7 - 19 years. We offer a warm, welcoming, safe and secure environment for children from all over the UK.
We are more than just an epilepsy school!
The School is a centre of expertise in supporting and educating young people with moderate or severe learning difficulties (MLD/SLD), profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD) or other complex neurological conditions potentially caused or complicated by epilepsy. Our Multi-Disciplinary Teams, in partnership with Great Ormond Street Hospital, equip the School to serve a wide range of complex needs such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), language and communication needs or challenging behaviours.
As either a residential or day pupil, every young person we welcome to our School is unique and valued. Our integrated care, therapeutic and academic provision is planned around the individual and delivered through a seamless, coordinated and consistent waking day curriculum, either in the classrooms or in our residential accommodation, available all year round.
Supporting pupils to make progress and develop independence skills is at the heart of everything we do, providing a safe and caring environment in which they can achieve their fullest potential.
St Elizabeth’s maintains as a Roman Catholic School, but we are fully inclusive and welcome children from all faiths or of no religion. Religious Education and our Christian ethos is taught by all teachers, and supported by our Catholic Ethos Advocate. Our Centre chapel is used frequently for Mass and our many prayer rooms give anyone the opportunity for quiet reflection throughout the day. If they choose, children can be prepared to receive their First Holy Communion and the Sacrament of Confirmation.
Ethos, Aims & Values
Weekly assemblies form the focus of our Religious Education, with all children being given the opportunity to organise and participate on a regular basis. All assemblies begin with the whole school sharing our core value statement: ‘To live and learn as friends together. To Share and Give and Love.’
Our Aims for Young People
At St Elizabeth’s each young person will have the opportunity to live and learn in a safe and nurturing environment where differences are acknowledged, respected and valued – where abilities are recognised and achievement is celebrated.
- To know and feel that they are safe.
- To be able to access a full and meaningful education through a curriculum that is adapted to individual learning profiles.
- To promote an understanding of children’s rights and advocacy services, assisting children to make choices and communicate their needs.
- To be able to achieve to their full potential.
- To have access to excellent health and therapy care which enables them to enjoy varied life experiences and retain a good level of general well being.
- To reduce barriers to living ordinary lives as much as possible.
- To live and learn in an emotionally supportive environment which promotes their development as a young person.
- For children receiving residential care to live in youthful and fun houses which offer a sense of security and belonging.
- To be empowered and facilitated to make informed choices about their own lives.
- To become as independent as possible.
- To be able to learn from experience.
- To be provided with the best quality of life possible in relation to their needs.
- To be included in their own and local community as much as they are able.
- To be prepared for a transition into adult provision or alternative learning services as and when appropriate.
Head Teacher: Mrs Lisa Tooley
More information about our School can be found on our website www.stelizabeths.org.uk or by contacting us on 01279 844451
Registered address: St Elizabeth’s Centre, South End, Much Hadham, Hertfordshire, SG10 6EW
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