Level 2 Teaching Assistant

Job start date: As soon as possible  

Hours per week: 32.50 term time only  

Hallmoor School
50, Scholars Gate
Birmingham
B33 0DL
Telephone number: 0121 809 0885

Contact email: recruitment@fet.ac

Contract type: Permanent

An exciting opportunity has arisen for Level 2 Teaching Assistant to join Hallmoor School, part of The Forward Education Trust.

The Trust was established in 2017 and is a rapidly growing Multi Academy Trust serving special schools across the West Midland area.

Hallmoor School caters for the needs of an increasingly diverse pupil population with a wide range of educational difficulties, ranging from moderate, severe, and complex needs. Some pupils also present with communication, physical, sensory, behavioural, or autistic difficulties requiring additional adult support and specialist intervention.

Forward Education Trust is committed to providing continuous professional development for all staff and encourage a supportive, motivating, and engaging working environment in all of our Schools.

All applicants must be qualified to NVQ Level 2 for Teaching Assistants or equivalent and be able to evidence this.

What we can offer you:

• teacher pension or support staff local government pension – employer contribution
• FET HUB – information all in one place, access to a range of benefits
• paid for health cash plan – employee and dependent children benefit – option to add partner
• employee questionnaire – consultation with staff on a range of issues and ideas
• salary sacrifice scheme – cycle to work scheme
• access to the NHS approved Thrive App – to support mental health and well-being
• comprehensive induction and probation support and an ongoing performance management and appraisal system
• easy purchase scheme (salary deduction) – smart tech in association with Currys
• enhanced employee assistance programme – free, totally confidential advice, with face-to-face consultations
• personal and professional learning and development – including FLICK online learning and other resources
• access to discounts and offers from reward gateway and MyPerks
• occupational health service – accessible to support the needs of individual staff
• staff recognition – e-cards to celebrate success among colleagues
• mental health first aiders
• policies being developed to support positive health and well-being: family friendly working, special leave of absence, flexible working, menopause
• staff recognition – awards throughout the year, in line with Trust behaviours and values
• a commitment to develop new ideas to show we really value what you do for our children

This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016). Therefore the ability to speak fluent and spoken English is an essential requirement for this role.

How to apply:

Please apply online

The Trust may review applications upon receipt and may call applicants for interview prior to the advert closing date. Therefore, you are encouraged to make an early application for this role and we reserve the right to close the vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date.   

Please note that only fully completed Forward Education Trust Application forms will be accepted; we will not read accompanying Curriculum Vitae (CV) or accept them in place of an application form.    

This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including: enhanced DBS; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work.  

All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.  

An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates.  

This post is not part of the City Council and the successful candidate will not hold a Birmingham City Council Contract of Employment.  

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.  

Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.