Teaching Assistant
St Augustine Webster Catholic Voluntary Academy
North Lincolnshire
- £16,802 - £17,336 per year
- Expiring soon
- Salary:
- OLOL Band 2, 30 hours per week, term time only
- Job type:
- Part Time, Fixed Term
- Apply by:
- 6 January 2025
Job overview
Join Our Inspiring Team as a Teaching Assistant at St Augustine Webster Catholic Voluntary Academy!
As a Teaching Assistant, you will play a vital role in supporting our students on their journey to success. You’ll work closely with teachers to deliver engaging lessons, provide tailored support for individual students, and foster a positive and inclusive classroom environment.
There will be opportunities to develop within the school and make a valued contribution to our children's learning.
This is a fixed term role starting from January 2025 until 31 August 2025, working for 30 hours per week, term time only.
About us
Saint Augustine Webster Catholic Voluntary Academy is a primary school 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.
We are an inclusive, friendly and happy school where every child is valued and nurtured so that they can truly flourish, fulfil their potential and become everything that they were created to be.
As a Teaching Assistant, you’ll:
- Support children in reaching their academic and personal goals.
- Collaborate with teachers to create engaging and inclusive learning experiences.
- Provide one-on-one or small group assistance to students needing additional support.
- Play an active role in maintaining a positive and inspiring classroom environment.
What We’re Looking For
- Enthusiasm for working with children and helping them achieve their best.
- A proactive, adaptable approach to supporting both staff and students.
- A willingness to embrace and promote our Catholic ethos (you don’t need to be Catholic but must respect our values).
What’s in it for you?
- An actual salary of £16,802 - £17,336 per annum (OLOL Band 2; Scale Points 3 - 5)
- 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.
- Terms and Conditions - we have committed to following nationally agreed terms and conditions for pay for both teachers and support staff.
- Fantastic benefits:
- Generous Pension Scheme with employer contributions over 20%.
- Access to top-tier CPD opportunities tailored to your development.
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) providing emotional, financial, and legal support for you and your family.
- Exclusive perks: From staff discounts to a Cycle-to-Work scheme, we’ve got you covered!
- A welcoming community: Work with enthusiastic students, supportive colleagues, and a leadership team that values your expertise.
- Term time only working.
Closing Date: Monday 6 January 2025 at 9.00am
Visits are warmly welcomed so you can see for yourself, and we encourage you to talk to us to learn more about the role. Please contact the school directly on 01724 843722 to arrange a visit or to discuss the role further.
You do not need to be a Catholic to work for out Trust and we warmly welcome those of different cultures, ethnicities, and beliefs. This includes those of all faiths, the Catholic faith and those without a faith who 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 a Disability Confident Committed employer and welcome applications from people with a disability or long-term health condition.
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.
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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