Teaching Assistant Level 1 at Woodlands Secondary School
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Job Reference #
EDV/2024/WSS/65624
Location
Marsh Farm, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU3 3SP
Contract Type
Permanent
Contract Term
Full-Time
Salary
£17,863.00 - £18,260.00 Annually (Actual)
Closing Date
Midnight, 12th Sep 2024
Positions Available
1
Positions Available 1
Interview Date(s)
Week beginning 22nd September
Interview Date(s) Week beginning 22nd September
About this Role
Our Teaching Assistants
(TAs) play a vital role working alongside our class teachers to support our
amazing students to fulfil their potential and to develop their independence
skills.
Staff may work with individual students or small groups to assist them to access our broad balanced, fun, relevant and functional curriculum. Our students have a range of learning difficulties and needs, including some physical or sensory needs and sometimes students present with some challenging behaviours.
Promoting good communication skills is a key element of the role; good spoken and written English skills are essential.
Some of our students require additional support and assistance; this may mean assisting students with personal care, helping to implement physiotherapy programmes or supporting students to understand and regulate their emotions and behaviours.
TAs supervise the students at lunch time and break times and play a key role in ensuring that the students are safeguarded and their welfare promoted.
Working in a special school is a unique and privileged opportunity for the right people. We advise interested parties to ensure they have looked at the school website and our Facebook Page - Official Woodlands Secondary School, in order to get a flavour of our school.
Benefits of working at Woodlands Secondary School
An extensive induction training programme over a 12 month period. The training programme covers: safeguarding.
Free access to Employee Assistance provided by Spectrum - this is confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days per week
Enhanced pension, employers’ contribution and death in service payment
Opportunities to progress and develop your career
Free tea and coffee
Access to our on site cafe 3 days per week - sit in or take away, Loyalty cards available.
Opportunity to be entered into a half termly draw to win a cafe voucher - based on good attendance
Access to onsite gym
Discounted membership rates at Active Luton
Free eye tests and contribution towards glasses (for those who work on computers)
When completing the letter of application, please ensure you address all the points in the essential column on the person specification when answering the questions.
Please do not use the
assistance of AI (artificial intelligence) to generate your answers. Please
refer to your own understanding and experiences to answer the questions.
Closing Date
The closing date for applications is 12th September 2024
Interviews
We will invite successful candidates into school to spend a day in classes as part of the interview process.
These visits will take place prior to face to face interviews which will be held in the week beginning 22nd September 2024.
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
This post meets the definition of ‘Regulated Activity’ as defined in the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (as amended). Because of the nature of this job, it will be necessary for an enhanced DBS check to be undertaken. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare all unspent cautions and convictions; and also any adult cautions (simple or conditional), and spent convictions that are not protected as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020). A person’s criminal record will not in itself prevent a person from being appointed to this post. Applicants will not be refused posts because of offences which are not relevant to, and do not place them at or make them a risk in, the role for which they are applying. However in the event of the employment being taken up, any failure to disclose such offence, as detailed above, will result in dismissal or disciplinary action by the Authority.
IT IS AN OFFENCE TO APPLY FOR A ROLE WORKING IN REGULATED ACTIVITY IF YOU ARE BARRED FROM WORKING WITH CHILDREN
PLEASE REFER TO ATTACHED POLICIES: Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy and Recruitment of Ex-Offenders Policy
Related Documents
Contact Details
Sam Meloy
01582 572880
sam.meloy@woodlands.luton.sch.uk
Woodlands Secondary School would like all candidates to answer specific questions for the personal statement section. For reference, here are a preview of the questions/headings:
- 1. Tell us about the experience you have of working with children and young people with a range of learning
disabilities (E1, D3). Please include any experience you have had working in a special needs classroom
setting. (E2)
- 2. Describe your Literacy, Numeracy and ICT skills and any experience you have had with supporting
students in these areas. (E4, E5)
- 3. Tell us about how you have contributed to supporting children in all areas of their personal and
educational development. (E6)
- 4. What experience do you have of supporting young people at times when they have presented challenging
behaviours? (E7)
- 5. How do you communicate effectively to children and young people ? What experience do you have of
communicating with young people with special educational needs? (E8)
- 6. What experience do you have of working constructively and effectively as a member of a team? (E9)
- 7. What is your motivation to work with young people? How do you ensure that you form and maintain
appropriate relationships with young people? (E13)
- 8. What do you understand about your responsibility to recognise and eliminate discrimination and to foster
good relationships between people who share a protected characteristic and those who do not? (E13)
- 9. What is your understanding of safeguarding children and young people with special educational needs.
(E14)
- 10. What are views about undertaking training and learning new skills? (E15)
About this Role
Our Teaching Assistants
(TAs) play a vital role working alongside our class teachers to support our
amazing students to fulfil their potential and to develop their independence
skills.
Staff may work with individual students or small groups to assist them to access our broad balanced, fun, relevant and functional curriculum. Our students have a range of learning difficulties and needs, including some physical or sensory needs and sometimes students present with some challenging behaviours.
Promoting good communication skills is a key element of the role; good spoken and written English skills are essential.
Some of our students require additional support and assistance; this may mean assisting students with personal care, helping to implement physiotherapy programmes or supporting students to understand and regulate their emotions and behaviours.
TAs supervise the students at lunch time and break times and play a key role in ensuring that the students are safeguarded and their welfare promoted.
Working in a special school is a unique and privileged opportunity for the right people. We advise interested parties to ensure they have looked at the school website and our Facebook Page - Official Woodlands Secondary School, in order to get a flavour of our school.
Benefits of working at Woodlands Secondary School
An extensive induction training programme over a 12 month period. The training programme covers: safeguarding.
Free access to Employee Assistance provided by Spectrum - this is confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days per week
Enhanced pension, employers’ contribution and death in service payment
Opportunities to progress and develop your career
Free tea and coffee
Access to our on site cafe 3 days per week - sit in or take away, Loyalty cards available.
Opportunity to be entered into a half termly draw to win a cafe voucher - based on good attendance
Access to onsite gym
Discounted membership rates at Active Luton
Free eye tests and contribution towards glasses (for those who work on computers)
When completing the letter of application, please ensure you address all the points in the essential column on the person specification when answering the questions.
Please do not use the assistance of AI (artificial intelligence) to generate your answers. Please refer to your own understanding and experiences to answer the questions.
Closing Date
The closing date for applications is 12th September 2024
Interviews
We will invite successful candidates into school to spend a day in classes as part of the interview process.
These visits will take place prior to face to face interviews which will be held in the week beginning 22nd September 2024.
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
This post meets the definition of ‘Regulated Activity’ as defined in the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (as amended). Because of the nature of this job, it will be necessary for an enhanced DBS check to be undertaken. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare all unspent cautions and convictions; and also any adult cautions (simple or conditional), and spent convictions that are not protected as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020). A person’s criminal record will not in itself prevent a person from being appointed to this post. Applicants will not be refused posts because of offences which are not relevant to, and do not place them at or make them a risk in, the role for which they are applying. However in the event of the employment being taken up, any failure to disclose such offence, as detailed above, will result in dismissal or disciplinary action by the Authority.
IT IS AN OFFENCE TO APPLY FOR A ROLE WORKING IN REGULATED ACTIVITY IF YOU ARE BARRED FROM WORKING WITH CHILDREN
PLEASE REFER TO ATTACHED POLICIES: Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy and Recruitment of Ex-Offenders Policy
Related Documents
Contact Details
Sam Meloy
01582 572880
sam.meloy@woodlands.luton.sch.uk
Woodlands Secondary School would like all candidates to answer specific questions for the personal statement section. For reference, here are a preview of the questions/headings:
- 1. Tell us about the experience you have of working with children and young people with a range of learning disabilities (E1, D3). Please include any experience you have had working in a special needs classroom setting. (E2)
- 2. Describe your Literacy, Numeracy and ICT skills and any experience you have had with supporting students in these areas. (E4, E5)
- 3. Tell us about how you have contributed to supporting children in all areas of their personal and educational development. (E6)
- 4. What experience do you have of supporting young people at times when they have presented challenging behaviours? (E7)
- 5. How do you communicate effectively to children and young people ? What experience do you have of communicating with young people with special educational needs? (E8)
- 6. What experience do you have of working constructively and effectively as a member of a team? (E9)
- 7. What is your motivation to work with young people? How do you ensure that you form and maintain appropriate relationships with young people? (E13)
- 8. What do you understand about your responsibility to recognise and eliminate discrimination and to foster good relationships between people who share a protected characteristic and those who do not? (E13)
- 9. What is your understanding of safeguarding children and young people with special educational needs. (E14)
- 10. What are views about undertaking training and learning new skills? (E15)
Woodlands Secondary School
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