Teaching Assistant
Post Title Teaching Assistant
Post Location Shenstone School
Contract Type: Permanent
30 hours per week (9.00 a.m. – 3.45 p.m.)
39 weeks per year (term time only + plus training days)
Grade: Bexley 05 (£12.03 per hour)
Salary: £22,575 (full-time equivalent)
£16,110 (Actual salary)
Post Start Date: ASAP
Prospective Candidate Tour: We would love to show you around our amazing school and a tour is planned for the 3rd October at 1:45p.m. If this is something you would like to do, please book a space via hr@shenstone-tkat.org
Closing Date: 9th October 2022
Interview Date: 17th October 2022
We are looking for enthusiastic, caring, resilient and reliable candidates to join our fantastic dedicated team at Shenstone School. If you are looking for a challenge and are able to support and encourage our amazing pupils with SEND to achieve their full potential in our specialist school setting, then we would welcome your application. The achievements of our pupils are extraordinary and will give you a sense of achievement when they make progress, however small. Teaching Assistants support pupils with behavioural needs which vary from child to child so you will need to be both confident and resilient in working with challenging behaviour.
To apply for this vacancy please download, fully complete and return the application form to hr@shenstone-tkat.org. Please ensure that you are using TKAT application form.
References will be requested for shortlisted candidates, prior to interview. Only those shortlisted for interview will be contacted.
In addition to our increasingly expanding Primary School, as from September 2022 we have also opened a Secondary provision too. We are very excited to now be able to offer pupils our amazing values, ethos, standards and facilities throughout their education. Shenstone School is one school based across three sites and we pride ourselves on making children happy and ensure that learning is made fun. Shenstone School is a school for pupils with severe, and/or profound and multiple learning difficulties. We are committed in supporting the emotional health and wellbeing of all our pupils, staff and parents/carers and we stand by our motto of “together we engage, thrive and achieve”.
We are very proud of Shenstone School and we are thrilled to have achieved: The Wellbeing Award for Schools, Outstandingly Happy School status, Move Gold quality Mark Award, National Online Safety Certified School status and we are also an accredited Arts Award Centre. We continue to expand with new ideas and initiatives in order to maintain the improve services for both pupils and staff.
Staff at Shenstone School can access the following benefits: excellent Induction and probation process, comprehensive in-house training (Manual handling, Team-Teach and much more), competitive pension scheme, employees counselling services, vaccination programmes, on-site mental health first aid team and various other wellbeing and social activities.
For further information about the school, please visit: www.shenstone-tkat.org
We are part of The Kemnal Academies Trust, For further information about the trust, please visit: www.tkat.org
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Offers of employment will be subject to the full Safer Recruitment process, including an enhanced DBS check.
We are committed to equality of opportunity. We welcome applications from all suitable candidates, regardless of any protected characteristic for example race, gender, sexual orientation, disability or age. All applications are treated on merit. This includes applications from individuals wishing to work full time, part-time or on a flexible basis.