Teaching Assistant (Early Years)
Job Summary
Contract Type:
Fixed Term
Working Pattern:
Part time - term time
Advert Start Date:
19/12/2024
Advert End Date:
Closed for applications on 17/01/2025 12:00
Salary:
£24,790 - £25,183 FTE
Job Category:
Schools - Teaching Assistant
Employment Location:
Whittonstall First School
Further Information
Whittonstall First school (3-9 years First School) Executive Headteacher: Katie Jacobs
Main Road, Whittonstall, Consett, Northumberland, DH8 9JN
Job Title: Teaching Assistant (Early Years)
Patterns/Hours: 32.5 Hours per week (8:30am - 3:30pm Monday - Friday)
Salary: : £24,790 - £25,183 FTE and £18,249 - £18,538 pro rata Band 3, Level 2 (SG17)
Contract Type: Fixed Term until end of academic year - 18th July 2025.
We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic and highly motivated Teaching Assistant to support our successful Nursery team, to assist with a temporary increase in workload.
This position will start on 3rd March 2025 (or as soon as possible) and end on 18th July 2025.
The main duties of this role are set out in the Job Description available from this website and our school website.
The successful candidate must:
- Have suitable and relevant Level 2 EYFS qualification or above
- Have good standard of Literacy and Numeracy with good communication skills
- Have knowledge and understanding of child development and how to effectively plan experiences to promote progress
- Have working knowledge of the EYFS statutory framework
- Have experience of working with children with a variety of needs
- Have the ability to ensure that every child reaches their potential and thrives
- Have a commitment to developing the whole child
- Have high expectations of themselves and others
- Have Enthusiasm, flexibility and resilience.
In return we can offer an exciting opportunity to be a part of our nurturing community.
We are strongly committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. If you are invited for an interview, you will be required to disclose convictions that would not be filtered, prior to the date of the interview. Certain spent convictions and cautions will be ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed. Full details on protected convictions and information about which convictions must be declared during job applications can be found on the Ministry of Justice website. You will be asked for further information about your criminal history during the recruitment process. If your application is successful, this self-disclosure information will be checked against information from the Disclosure and Barring Service before your appointment is confirmed. This role will include Regulated Activities and an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) disclosure is required for this post. The Trust Safeguarding and Child Protection Policies and Employment of Ex-Offenders Policy can be found with the application pack online. An online search will be carried out on shortlisted candidates, prior to interview.
Visits to the school prior to interview are available on request.
Please contact the school to arrange a visit: admin@whfs.cheviotlt.co.uk or 01207 560325.
Application forms can be downloaded from this website and are also available from the Trust website under the careers section.
A curriculuum vitae will only be accepted alongside an application form.
Completed applications should be returned directly to the school by email to admin@whfs.cheviotlt.co.uk
Closing Date: 12 noon on 17th January 2025
Interview Date: w/c 20th January 2025
Please note
This job is closed for applications.