Level 1 Teaching Assistant
Hatton Park Primary School
Cambridgeshire
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- Salary:
- Meridian Trust Grade 4, Points 3-5 £11,387.41-£11,769.54 actual salary.
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2024
- Apply by:
- 30 September 2024
Job overview
VACANCY FOR LEVEL 1 TEACHING ASSISTANT AT HATTON PARK PRIMARY SCHOOL
Salary: Meridian Trust Grade 4, Points 3-5 £11,387.41-£11,769.54 actual salary.
Hours: 22 hours per week, 38 weeks per year (term time only).
We have an exciting opportunity working as a member of our Teaching Assistant team at Hatton Park Primary School. You will be part of a very friendly, supportive team working in our wonderful classrooms – you will be supporting whole class teaching, leading group interventions as well as providing one-to-one support for children with specific needs. This will be a varied, fun and fulfilling role where you will be making a difference to the children’s learning and you will see their progress every day. Midday supervision may also be part of the role and a willingness to undergo first-aid training would be desirable.
The opportunity:
- A fulfilling and rewarding role where you will be making a difference to children’s learning!
- A job that is fun and will make you smile!
- An opportunity to use a range of skills in supporting children’s learning and the curriculum
- Outstanding professional development opportunities for all our staff
- Valuable experience if you wish to go into teaching!
- Term-time only position - offering greater flexibility in work life
The ideal candidate:
- Will possess GCSE English & Maths Grade C (4/5) or above or equivalent
- Some experience of supporting children in Key Stages One/Two.
- Possess outstanding communication skills and can work well in a team
- An understanding of child protection and safeguarding issues
Benefits of working for us include:
- Local government pension scheme with generous employer contributions
- Excellent family friendly working policies
- Generous sick pay
- Access to a free Employee Assistance Programme offering mental health and wellbeing support
- Free on-site parking
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free tea and coffee making facilities
Hatton Park Primary School is a modern school with excellent facilities in the heart of the village community of Longstanton. Hatton Park Primary School is ideally situated within walking distance of the guided busway running from St Ives to Cambridge and is close to A14/M11 link roads. Our staff work together to provide a friendly, caring and safe community enabling children to flourish in their learning as well as supporting their physical, social and health development and education.
Meridian Trust is a successful multi-academy trust founded on its commitment to people and communities. Our proven approach over more than a decade has elevated us to a respected and admired academy trust, a national leader in education and a source of great pride to the communities we serve. The Trust currently operates 30 schools across Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Peterborough, Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire and has forged strong links within all these communities. We are committed to high quality professional development and career opportunities for all staff. To find out more about the Trust, please visit: www.meridiantrust.co.uk
For more information, please see the Applicant Information Pack below.
Visits to our schools are warmly welcomed – please contact Hatton Park Primary School on 01954 273315 or email office@hattonpark.org to arrange an appointment.
Interviews: Interviews will be conducted on a rolling basis.
Please note that Meridian Trust may reserve the right to interview candidates before the closing date of the advertisement.
The Trust is committed to diversity and inclusion and equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to pre-employment checks, including an enhanced check with the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS), as well as online searches.
Attached documents
About Hatton Park Primary School
- Hatton Park Primary School
- Hatton Park, Longstanton
- Cambridge
- CB24 3DL
- United Kingdom
Headteacher: Mr John Canavan
We are a busy but friendly school, with lots going on. Our school values are at the core of everything we do. They underpin our teaching and learning, and provide an environment which prepares our pupils as confident, happy citizens. They are represented by our 6Rs:
- Resilience: never giving up no matter how tricky it may seem.
- Respect: taking care of ourselves, each other and our school
- Responsibility: rising to what is expected of us.
- Reflective: being able to look at things from another point of view.
- Risk-taking: being adventurous with our ideas and our learning.
- Relationships: working with others at school, at home and in the community.
Through our School Values, we will: -
- help each individual to discover and develop new skills and abilities.
- guide children and adults to be the best that they can be.
- provide challenge and support to achieve high standards.
- provide an environment where learning is engaging and exciting.
- care for and value everyone in the school community.
- provide a secure and respectful environment.
- encourage children to share the responsibility for their own education.
- promote good relations with others at school and in the community.
- encourage children to be moral, self-disciplined, hardworking and caring.
Please learn more about our school by visiting our website:-
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