1 Permanent Full Time Level 2 Teaching Assistant Required to start 24th February 2025
Longwill School for the Deaf
Birmingham
- £24,027 - £25,992 per year
- New
- Salary:
- Grade 2 Scp 3 - 8 (Term Time Only pro rata salary) + SEN Allowance
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 24/02/2025
- Apply by:
- 13 January 2025
Job overview
1 Permanent Full Time Level 2 Teaching Assistant Required to start 24th February 2025
Grade 2 Scp 3 - 8 (£24,027 - £25,992 + SEN Point pro rata)
32.5 hours per week Term Time Only
Head Teacher - Mrs Alison Carter
Longwill Primary School for Deaf Children, Bell Hill, Northfield, Birmingham B31 1LD
Telephone: 0121 475 3923, Email: enquiry@longwill.bham.sch.uk
Website: www.longwill.bham.sch.uk
Our outstanding innovative and welcoming primary special school caters for children between the ages of 2 – 11 years old who are D/deaf and require a sign bilingual education. We are currently funded for 65 places. The school has a national reputation as a centre of excellence in Deaf Education.
We seek to appoint an enthusiastic and highly motivated Teaching Assistant who has high expectations for D/deaf children and a firm commitment to raising standards, working alongside our Teachers of the Deaf and fellow Teaching Assistants, both Deaf and hearing.
Longwill is a small, friendly school which offers an excellent education to D/deaf pupils from throughout the West Midlands and surrounding areas. We are looking for a Teaching Assistant who:
· Thinks creatively
· Uses their own initiative
· Is enthusiastic, motivated and a lifelong learner
· Is able to work well in teams
· Support the varied and complex needs of our Deaf sign bilingual pupils, some with additional needs
· Can work flexibly to meet the needs of the school
· Has the ability to communicate in British Sign Language (minimum Level 1)
We can offer you:
· An innovative and exciting special school environment, committed to providing the best opportunities for D/deaf children and staff.
· The opportunity to work in a school which priortises the continued professional development of its staff
· Delightful and hardworking D/deaf sign bilingual children.
· A supportive environment with dedicated and highly skilled staff.
A commitment to CPD is essential.
Informal visits are strongly encouraged. Please contact the school office to arrange on 0121 475 3923
Closing Date for Applications: Monday 13th January 2025 @ 9.00 am
Application Packs are available on the school website Vacancies TA | longwill
Please note that we are unable to accept CV’s.
Interviews to be held week commencing 20th January 2025
Birmingham City Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check is required for all successful applicants.
Successful applicant(s) will need to provide evidence of their Identity and Right to Work in the UK.
Attached documents
About Longwill School for the Deaf
- Longwill School for the Deaf
- Bell Hill, Birmingham
- West Midlands
- B31 1LD
- United Kingdom
Longwill Primary Special School for Deaf Children
Longwill is currently a 65 place Special School for profoundly Deaf children aged from 2-11 years old who come from across the West Midlands Region.
The Learning Environment
- Longwill is a sign-bilingual, bi-cultural learning environment, which strives to support and develop the communication needs and abilities of its members so that the pupils are equipped to function effectively within both the Hearing and the Deaf world.
- We educate our pupils as independent free thinkers, ready for 21st century life, capable of embracing the technology of tomorrow, who are adaptable, self reliant, resourceful and tolerant of change and who can contribute to the wider community.
- Pupils are taught within small groups by Teachers of the Deaf.
- 11 Deaf staff act as positive cultural and linguistic role models, teaching BSL and supporting learning in the classroom. Both languages (English and BSL) are equally valued and promoted.
- The Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning (SEAL) are woven into the curriculum to ensure the emotional wellbeing of all pupils. We have three Learning Mentors on our staff.
- We teach English through a variety of means, using BSL, Sign Supported English, Signed English, as well as communicating orally where appropriate.
- We employ a digital team to ensure that Longwill continues to lead the way in using digital media to enhance deaf education.
- We work closely with Speech and Language Therapists, our Educational Audiologist and a range of professional to support positive outcomes for Deaf children.
Initiatives
- The school is part of the Birmingham Special Schools Co-operative Trust. It has an outward facing approach and recognises the benefits of strong partnership working.
- We teach BSL courses in school and encourage a wider community of schools to know BSL.
- All Teachers of the Deaf engage in Action Research and collaborate closely with universities in developing and improving ways to teach Deaf pupils.
- Longwill teaches Thinking and Learning skills especially through the use of Building Learning Power.
- ‘Visual Phonics by Hand’- was developed at Longwill to support phonic skills for Deaf pupils, who are visual learners.
- The school holds the Gold Rights Respecting Schools Award (UNCRC) and is proud of our achievement in creating a school where pupil voice is strong and pupils are confident contributors to making the world a better place.
Please visit through our website www.longwill.bham.sch.uk
Headteacher- Mrs Alison Carter
Longwill School, Bell Hill, Northfield, Birmingham B31 1LD
Email – a.carter@longwill.bham.sch.uk
Telephone – 0121 475 3923
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