Teaching Assistant
Featherby Partnership
Medway
- £18,356.88 - £20,511.96 per year
- New
- Salary:
- Grade D2 - points 4 - 11
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 2025
- Apply by:
- 10 December 2024
Job overview
Hours : 32.5 hours per week, 39 weeks per year
Are you a Teaching Assistant who is excited by learning and has a strong commitment to ensuring our children achieve their best? If so we would like to hear from you!! You will be working alongside the Class Teacher and other key staff.
Are you someone who:
- Is passionate about ensuring all children are supported to do the best
- Has very good numeracy and literacy skills
- Has experience of working with children across the primary curriculum
- Forms positive relationships with children, parents and staff
- Is reflective and always seeking to improve outcomes for children
- Can maintain confidentiality and have a high level of professionalism
- Committed to improve their own practice
Featherby Junior and Featherby Infant and Nursery School are both part of the Maritime Academy Trust, an innovative partnership of schools in Greenwich, Bexley, Kent and Medway. Our academies transform through collaboration and an entrepreneurial curriculum which equips children with life skills.
The care and wellbeing of our pupils is a high priority and our children are enthusiastic and hardworking. We would like to recruit a Teaching Assistant to join our friendly and committed staff team. You would be required to work across both the Infant & Junior schools.
We can offer you:-
- National terms and conditions
- Local government pension scheme
- Programmes of CPD with possible cross trust development opportunities
- A generous package of staff benefits.
- Early salary access and financial advice
- Comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme
If this sounds like you we would like to hear from you. To find out more please contact Mrs Barraclough on: 01634 231984 (Juniors)
For further information on the Trust and the school see attached applicant information pack
Maritime Academy Trust embraces diversity and equal opportunity in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.
Please note: we may hold interviews as and when applications are received and we reserve the right to offer to a candidate prior to the closing date. We only accept applications submitted online via the My New Term website and which are completed before the closing deadline. With this in mind, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
Maritime Academy Trust is committed to recruiting with care and safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory enhanced DBS and pre-employment checks.
In line with KCSIE 2024 guidance, as part of the shortlisting process, the Trust reserves the right to conduct an online search on shortlisted candidates as part of our due diligence and to share any pertinent information found concerning a candidate's suitability to work with children with Hiring Managers to be discussed at interview stage
Attached documents
About Featherby Partnership
Welcome to our School's profile. Featherby Partnership School forms part of the Maritime Academy Trust, a multi-academy trust that is committed to making sure that education is meaningful.
Our Trust is made up of 11 primary schools located in Greenwich, Bexley and Kent. Though our schools may be different with their own in-school culture and community spirit, they all work harmoniously and collaboratively together within a curriculum that ensures each and every child is being equipped with leadership and life skills. At Maritime, we do this by empowering schools to drive more meaningful and enjoyable outcomes for children by having great people working for us, who commit to working hard to make an impact whatever the school and whatever the role.
The Featherby Partnership is made up of 2 schools: Featherby Infant and Nursery and Featherby Junior who are working closely together like one school. We are going forward through an exciting period of change with a new leadership team and a collaborative approach to ensure consistency of high expectations for the whole of the Featherby community. At Featherby you will find a true passion for learning, happy and safe children, a purposeful environment and an inspiring curriculum. We believe these are the key ingredients that make a Featherby child stand out from the rest.
Our vision statement is 'Working together to inspire minds through inclusive and creative practice; aspirations are high for all'. Underpinning this we have our core values of unity, resilience, responsibility, respect, honesty and trust. We are very much a value lead school which underpins our whole approach. Featherby is an inclusive school that supports learners well and encourages them to be independent and take risks in their learning.
We have high expectations of behaviour at Featherby and promote positive praise amongst learners.
Working in collaboration with each other ensures that we build strong relationships with families, children and the wider community to continuously provide children with great learning opportunities!
So, if you are looking for a place to apply your knowledge and develop your skill set in a friendly and energised environment, then Maritime may be the place for you. All we ask for is a commitment to continue to learn and the flexibility to try new things as we strive to ensure that every single child receives a phenomenal education
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