EYFS Teaching Assistant
St Augustine Webster Catholic Voluntary Academy
North Lincolnshire
- £17,225 - £17,803 per year
- New
- Expiring soon
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 5 August 2024
Job overview
Do you have experience of working with in early years?
St Augustine Webster are seeking an enthusiastic and committed Teaching Assistant to join our EYFS team in this warm and welcoming school.
You will have a talent for engaging children and will be required to work flexibly across all age groups and abilities.
You will support the work of our teachers in this varied role and duties include working in 1:1 situations, leading small groups and providing general classroom support.
Working with children who have varying needs, from SEN to behavioural and emotional needs, you will encourage the acceptance and inclusion of all children.
There will be opportunities to develop your career within the school which allows you to make a valued contribution to our children's learning.
This is a permanent role starting from September 2024. You will be working for 32.5 hours per week, term time only.
About us
St Augustine Webster Catholic Voluntary Academy is a Primary school and is located in Scunthorpe. We are an Ofsted-rated Good school.
We are part of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Multi-Academy Trust, bringing together the 36 Catholic Primary and Secondary schools in Lincolnshire, Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire.
You will:
- Have a recognised early years qualification.
- Be caring and supportive, and committed to achieving excellent results.
- Support the Teachers to enthuse our students, inspiring their learning and progress.
- Assist with the planning, differentiation and preparation of intervention strategies.
- Promote the well-being of our student’s providing guidance and support.
- Establish supportive relationships with pupils, allowing them to feel valued and listened to and encouraging questions and ideas.
- Provide support for leaning activities and monitor their effectiveness.
Why work for us?
At the St Augustine Webster Catholic Voluntary Academy we offer:
- A salary of £17,225 - £17,803 per annum (OLOL Band 2)
- Wonderful students who have a passion for learning and deserve the very best.
- A team of talented and highly committed staff in a supportive working environment.
- Automatic enrolment into the Local Government Pension Scheme for support staff, one of the most competitive on the market, with employer contributions of above 20% in most cases.
- Access to first-class CPD opportunities with a specialist support staff CPD programme.
- Professional assistance through our Employee Assistance Programme– emotional, financial and legal support to both you and your family by a team of qualified professionals.
- Health and wellbeing delivered through our occupational health provider.
- Staff discounts and a salary sacrifice scheme that includes a Cycle-to-work scheme.
For an informal discussion about the role and our school please contact the school office on 01724 843722. Visits to our school are warmly welcomed.
How to Apply:
Please complete the online application form located on our vacancies page: Vacancies - Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Multi-Academy Trust (ololcatholicmat.co.uk)
Closing Date: Monday 5th August 2024 at 9.00am.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and we expect all staff to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check and other pre-employment checks including online searches are required for successful applicants.
You do not need to be a Catholic to work for our Trust. Everyone is welcome - those of all faiths, the Catholic faith and those without a faith. We ask that you are supportive of the Trust’s Catholic character and Christian ethos. This diversity is fundamental to our values and enriches the lives of the students within our schools.
Our Trust strives to be a supportive, inclusive, caring, and positive community where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We are committed to cultivating an equitable working environment where staff treat one another with dignity and respect and where every individual can fulfil their potential.
The Trust actively supports Apprenticeships, with many Teaching Assistants (TAs) enhancing their skills in SEND through these programs.
We are a Disability Confident Committed employer and welcome applications from people with a disability or long-term health condition.
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About St Augustine Webster Catholic Voluntary Academy
- St Augustine Webster Catholic Voluntary Academy
- Baildon Road, Scunthorpe
- Lincolnshire
- DN15 8BU
- United Kingdom
We are a large academy, but we like to think we can offer a close family atmosphere where all the children and staff can work cooperatively to achieve high standards of education within a caring environment which reflects the Catholic, Christian ethos of our academy.
Mission Statement
The academy will aim to:
- develop an awareness of God's love and presence in individual's lives and to elicit a response to that;
- help pupils to develop a reasoned set of attitudes, values and beliefs allowing the individual to make sound and moral judgements in the light of personal commitment to the Lord, Jesus Christ;
- make prayer, worship and liturgy valued experiences;
- develop real links with home and parish;
- create caring relationships with all those children and adults who are involved in the academy.
Academy Curriculum
St Augustine Webster Academy is committed to offering an academic curriculum of excellence within a caring, Christian environment.
Our aims are:
- to help pupils use language and number effectively;
- to help pupils to develop in the basic areas of competence needed for varying employment patterns in a rapidly-changing world;
- to help pupils to understand the world in which they live, and the interdependence of individuals, groups, nations
- and the environment;
- to help pupils to develop lively, enquiring, imaginative and creative minds, with the ability to question and argue
- rationally and to apply themselves to tasks;
- to help pupils to develop fit, healthy bodies and equip them with a wide range of physical skills;
- to help pupils develop aesthetic awareness;
- to help the children appreciate human achievement and aspirations;
- to help pupils to develop a set of reasoned attitudes, values, and beliefs, based on the Christian principles of the Catholic Faith;
- to help children understand the multi-cultural nature of society, to foster respect for those of different religions, beliefs and ways of life, and to develop an attitude which is opposed to discrimination of any sort;
- to help children to develop a sense of self-respect with the capacity to live as both independent, self-motivated and self-disciplined adults and as contributory members within their own families and society as a whole.
Our school is part of the Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Multi-Academy Trust which brings together the 36 Catholic Primary and Secondary schools in Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire. Our priority is to ensure the very best Catholic Education for all young people in our community, whatever their circumstances. We will achieve this together, through a strategic approach to sharing best practice, effective challenge and support from a central standards and performance team and opportunities for high quality Continuing Professional Development offered by the CMAT’s teaching school, The Nottingham Initial Teacher Training Hub.
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