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Teaching Assistant - SEN
Start date: 4th January 2024
Pay Scale:
Scale 3, Point 5 (Range 5-6): £23,500 - £23,893. FTE pro rata
Actual pay for this would be £5,974.95 point 5 or £6,074.87 point 6.
Hours: 11.25 per week - (1pm - 3.15pm) School Term Time only.
Contract: Initial fixed term until 19th July 2024
Location: Woodham Walter, Maldon, Essex
Woodham Walter C of E Primary School are seeking to employ a Teaching Assistant to work closely with a Year 4 child who has additional needs.
The applicant appointed to this role will either have a proven track record of successfully working with children with Special Education Needs or will be keen to learn on the job about this role. They will have high expectations and show they can enable individuals to achieve their potential and make good progress.
The ideal candidate will:
- Have experience of working with pupils with SEND or be keen to learn on the job.
- Be a creative, enthusiastic and energetic practitioner and a real team player.
- Communicate with pupils, staff and parents effectively, both verbally and in a written form.
- Is someone who can use agreed teaching and learning strategies consistently, yet also respond to educational needs in the 'here and now' to enhance learning opportunities within a lesson.
In return Woodham Walter' C of E Primary School can offer you:
- A hardworking and supportive team who are committed to providing outstanding education to all children, no matter what their background or needs.
- Further opportunities for professional development.
- Support from a wider partnership of 3 schools all working collaboratively.
- A school built on Christian values.
- A friendly, caring community.
Closing Date: 12.00pm on Friday 8th December
Interview: Monday 11th December
All appointments are subject to safer recruitment requirements to ensure the safeguarding of children and young people and contract confirmation will be subject to the completion of a successful probationary period. All positions will involve appropriate checks and clearances.
Visits to the school are both positively encouraged and warmly welcomed. Also, you are very welcome to have an informal, confidential discussion with Mr Philip Brown, our Executive Headteacher or Mrs Pippa Edlin our Head of School about this vacancy. Please contact the Woodham Walter Primary School office on 01245 223264 or admin@woodhamwalterschool.co.uk arrange these.
Information about the School
Woodham Walter C of E Primary School is a small, happy, rural church primary school in the village of Woodham Walter. It
is at the heart of the community and surrounded by beautiful farmland and woodland.
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