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LEVEL 2 Teaching Assistant - Ref: TV41021

Employer
Short Heath Federation
Location
Willenhall, West Midlands
Salary
Grade G4 £19,698 - £21,748, Pro-Rata to hours worked. Actual Salary @ 30hrs/wk from £13,687, £10.21
Closing date
1 Nov 2021
Reference
TV41021

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Short Heath Federation

Lane Head Nursery, Rosedale C of E Infant School, Short Heath Junior School

LEVEL 2 Teaching Assistant, 30 hrs a week

Term Time Only,

Grade G4 £19,698 - £21,748,  Pro-Rata to hours worked.

Actual Salary @ 30hrs/wk from £13,687, £10.21 per hour

 

Our Federation offers a unique opportunity for a very special kind of teaching assistant to work in a single phase school, as well as the chance to work alongside colleagues from other phases, in order to enhance your professional development. 

We are now entering a really exciting phase in our Federation’s development, as we are the West Walsall Nurture Hub, leading in schools on developing Restorative Practice, active members of the Attachment Research Community, working collaboratively on delivering Autism Education Trust training and continuing to develop our Specialist learning provisions in response to an increased number of children with specific additional needs! We are also just going into the third phase of our expansion to three form entry (with a building project on its way). This is great news for our current staff and for you! We can offer more opportunities for career development over time and more CPD than ever before! We are a fully inclusive school and enjoy the challenge of meeting the needs of every child in a unique way. Our practice is recognised as exceptional. Our staff are too.

Opportunities exist in our Federation schools for Level 2 Teaching Assistants who will inspire our children, ensuring they make good progress and enjoy learning. Your specialism may be in Early Years, Key Stage 1 or Key Stage 2.  We can offer permanent, fixed term and casual contracts, 30 hr & 15 hr contracts in all phases.  At 15 hrs a week, term time only the actual salary would be from £6,839 pa, £10.21 per hr.

You need resilience, strength of character and a professional curiosity in order to support our children’s needs, which can be many and varied.

For this role, we are ideally interested in finding a Teaching Assistant with experience of, or training in, the Principles of Nurture as advocated by Nurture Group UK. You must have a working knowledge of Attachment and Trauma in children and how adverse childhood experiences can create a barrier to learning. You will advocate the belief that every behaviour is a communication of an unmet need.

Applications are invited from candidates who:

  • Enjoy motivating and exciting children about learning
  • Have working knowledge and experience of working with children with ADHD, ASD, SLD and MLD
  • Love working as part of a team
  • Are able to use their own initiative, thinking creatively
  • Are skilled at using teacher’s planning to deliver in class support, individual and small group intervention
  • Have GCSE Grade C or equivalent in English and Maths
  • Are able to support children to be independent learners
  • Are keen to develop themselves and others
  • Are imaginative, energetic, enthusiastic and hardworking
  • Nurture and encourage children to fulfil their potential

We can offer

 

  • Enthusiastic, highly motivated, happy children and families!
  • A strong dedicated team, who are committed to maintaining high standards whilst still having fun!
  • A structured programme of CPD, working closely with colleagues in our federated schools

 

 

If you can see yourself being part of our team, you can download an application pack from our website - www.shortheathfederation.org.uk . 

We would love you to come and see what life is like here. If you contact our head of Inclusion, relationships and belonging, Mrs Stephen on vstephen@shortheathfederation.org.uk she will be able to organise a walkabout for you.

Closing date for applications is 12.00 Noon on Monday 1st November 2021.

Interviews will be held the week commencing the 8th November 2021.  

Short Heath Federation is an equal opportunities employer.  We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, keeping children safe in education and promoting British Values in school and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

The post is subject to an Enhanced DBS disclosure check and a completed Disqualification by Association form, along with relevant pre-employment checks, including two suitable professional references.

Company

Our mission statement is:

Every day,
In every way,
Everyone matters.

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Short Heath Federation was formed in 2006 when Lane Head Nursery School, Rosedale Church of England Infant School and Short Heath Junior School joined forces under one governing body. Since then, we haven’t looked back!

Each of our schools is led by a Head of School – they are in charge of the day to day running of their school, as well as working together with the Executive Headteacher on the strategic improvement of all of our schools. All three of them are amazingly talented school leaders - specialists in their field. The Executive Head takes responsibility for the development of the federation (with a primary focus on continually improving the quality of teaching and learning in our schools), as well as supporting other schools in an advisory role and carrying out Ofsted Inspections in schools in the West Midlands Region.

We never stand still andshort heath since we federated, we have gone from strength to strength. Lane Head is an outstanding nursery school and Rosedale and Short Heath are both good schools. Across all schools we have an incredibly talented team of staff – every single one of them. We have more Specialist Leaders of Education than we have ever had before – we see ourselves as lifelong learners and are constantly researching effective practice and implementing even better teaching practices in our schools. Our leading practitioners enjoy using action research to further improve what we do.

We are very proud that we are able to support other schools in Walsall. We have a rapidly growing reputation as a centre of excellence and others are always keen to learn from what we do. We aspire to provide the very best possible education that we can for our children. It’s important to us that we support every aspect of a child’s development – personal, social and emotional, as well as academic.

One of our many particular strengths, and one that we are especially proud of, is that we focus on the very specific needs of every child – we really do mean it when we say ‘Every Day, in Every Way, Everyone Matters’. All staff believe that every single child has the potential to be exceptional – we do our very best to make sure we give them all of the opportunities that they need.  Our children deserve the best!

Although we are a federation, each of our schools has its own unique character and it’s always been important to us that we keep it that way. You can find out much more about each school on their individual website.

Lane Head Nursery School

Short Heath Junior School

Rosedale C of E Infant School

Another strength, and something that makes our federation unusual, is that one of our schools is a Church of England School. From the beginning it has been important to us all that we have a strong Christian ethos across all of our schools and we are extremely fortunate to have Furzebank Worship Centre on site as well as an extremely supportive vicar and church community. Without doubt, our outstanding Christian distinctiveness makes our settings extra special.

The future is exciting. We are looking forward to being able to welcome 90 children into our Reception classes from 2019, instead of the 60 we can currently take. We are looking forward to continuing to develop the extensive range of support that we give to our families beyond.

I am extremely proud to lead Short Heath Federation. Our children are amazing and make every single day fulfilling. We love what we do and we know that you will love it too.

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Cathy Draper
Executive Headteacher
Short Heath Federation

Short Heath Federation and your future

Our federation is very proud of what we can offer to you as an employee. We are fortunate to have a really talented team of staff who are there to support your professional development.

We have specialist leaders of education, leading practitioners and a structured programme of professional development for everyone, whatever your role.short heath

We love that we are able to offer opportunities in our school and beyond to learn from others and also to support others as part of your development. We have a strong track record of recognising talent and growing future leaders.

Many of our staff trained with us and have been successful in gaining employment with us after their training – in all sorts of roles and at all levels.

We try to keep our website up to date with vacancies, but it’s always worth emailing us to ask if there is anything available.

We offer:

  • a tailor-made induction programme (whatever your career stage) including opportunities for developing practice in our own and other schools in Walsall;
  • a personalised professional development plan;
  • a career coach;
  • Local Authority staff well-being programme;
  • an exciting opportunity for extensive professional development across a federation of schools, working with good and outstanding teachers in all phases;
  • laptop and iPad;
  • discounted childcare;
  • an annual spend of more than £15,000 on training and development for our staff;
  • the support of two leading practitioners and 6 specialist leaders of education spread across all phases;
  • wonderful children and families;
  • opportunities to shadow other colleagues;
  • supportive, dedicated, creative and talented colleagues;
  • an exceptionally strong Governing Body;
  • part time opportunities for the very best candidates
Company info
Website
Telephone
01902 368499
Location
Pennine Way
Shortheath
Willenhall
West Midlands
WV12 4DS
GB

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