Job Role:Teaching Assistant
Start date:September 2024
Pay:84 Per Day, Probation of 12 weeks Temp to Perm
Hours:Term Time Only, Monday to Friday 08:30-3:30
Driver:Not essential
Our wonderful school are looking for Teaching Assistants to join them this September! Are you considering a new role in education? Are you searching for a change of scenery as an experienced TA?Apply today!
Our school are looking for Teaching Assistants that:
- Have Resilience
- Have Confidence
- Have Good Behaviour Management
- Have Good Organisation
- Have Experience with Young People
- Have Initiative, and Apply Proactive and Reactive Traits
- Are Friendly, Personable and Approachable
- Are Team Players
The role of the Teaching Assistant does not need qualifications, but GCSE English and Maths passes are sometimes essential due to the nature of the role. Please enquire to find out this role's criteria.
In this school, you will be working closely with young people with special educational needs & disabilities, like all other teaching assistant roles out there, whichever school you apply for. Experience, wherever you have gained it, with SEND is very desirable but the school are open to inexperienced candidates looking to learn quickly within the role. As the school has children of all ages, we request that you be flexible in the area of the school you would work in, although we will seek a particular key stage (for example) that you would prefer.
Backgrounds with transferable skills:
- Care Worker
- Support Worker
- Youth Worker
- Youth Clubs Worker
- Coaches of activities and sport
- Nursery Practitioners
- Tutors
- Psychology & Criminology Graduates
- Child Development and other relevant Childcare courses, children psychology/therapy/teaching interest
- Life experience (SEND, SEMH within the family)
- Mental Health roles
- School volunteering experience (including placements)
- Childminding, babysitting
- Fostering
You may also work with young people with Social, Emotional and Mental Heath issues.
SEMH needs are special educational need where a child communicates through behaviour in response to unmet social, emotional or mental health needs.
Children with SEMH needs can often have difficulties in managing their emotions or their behaviour. They can show inappropriate responses to their emotions. They can feel scared, anxious and misunderstood. Teaching assistants will need patience, understanding, and confidence with any behaviour that may be challenging.
Being a Teaching Assistant is helping those who need it most, whatever the needs of the children are.
This lovely school has contacted us asking for dedicated Teaching Assistants passionate about making a difference and becoming part of an amazing team.
Important Notice: To successfully apply for the above position, you should be eligible to work in the UK or hold a relevant work visa. Safeguarding, quality and integrity are at the heart of what we do. Pink Tile is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and young people within education. During the application process, you will be required to:
- Provide details so we can complete reference checks before employment.
- Provide an Enhanced DBS on the update service or be willing to obtain one (which Pink Tile can assist with).
Pink Tile Education, their schools and candidates all share the view of"Best Fit, Every Time"and our role is to ensure that every candidate we place has a positive impact on the team of their new employers.
We have a policy, as a matter of courtesy, to respond to all applications within three working days. However, because of the volume of applications, we sometimes cannot reply to individual enquiries. If we have not contacted you within this specified time, please note your application may have been unsuccessful on this occasion, but we encourage you to apply for positions you may see in the future. Alternatively, please check missed calls and all your email folders as it may have been that we have tried to reach you. Thank you.