Salary Scale: Grade D Point 5 FTE £24,790 p.a (£12.85 per hr) 43.9 paid weeks per year based on less than 5 years service

Term Time Only - 22.5hrs per week, Monday to Friday 8:30 to 1pm

The role requires a skilled individual who would be able to be flexible and creative in their approach to working with children.

The successful candidate will need to:

- be a willing learner experienced in working with primary aged children

- demonstrate the ability to understand children’s learning and behavioural needs and adapt accordingly

- hold a relevant qualification, or be willing to undertake relevant training

- demonstrate, through practice, their knowledge and understanding of complex communication needs and appropriate planning, monitoring and assessment to support those needs 

- We are keen to develop our Forest School opportunities within the school so forest school qualification would be desirable but not essential

Working in a Castleman Academy Trust school you'll be working with other forward thinkers, who see possibilities and are optimistic. You'll have the support of like-minded colleagues and together we'll ensure everyone has a great work life balance. Being part of the Castleman Academy Trust means there are a whole host of opportunities for you to develop and flourish.   

We are looking for a Teaching Assistant to join us at Parley First School from 24th February 2025.  Parley First School believe our purpose is to ‘prepare children for a life well lived’. 

We are looking for people who-

• Are passionate about learning as learning is at the heart of everything we do
• Want to inspire young learners to be the best they can be
• Believe teamwork is vital to be successful
• Lead by example
• Have an eye for details that matter
• Are solution focused
• Are prepared to take their turn in taking the lead
• Are intuitive and positive thinking
• Take their job seriously but not themselves
• Notice a job needs doing and get it done
• Have a real desire to join the Castleman Trust and help build an inspiring learning community where all thrive and are successful 

 We can offer you:- 

• Excellent CPD opportunities  
• Eligibility to join the Local Government Pension Scheme  
• Free access to the Employee Assistance Programme 
• Cycle to Work Scheme   

If you would like to be a part of this exciting journey, we would like to hear from you.   

The Castleman Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

The successful candidate will be required to demonstrate that they meet the essential elements of the person specification and will be subject to pre-employment checks including an Enhanced DBS Check, Child Barred List check, satisfactory references and a health check and, where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants.

An online check will also be conducted on all shortlisted applicants. This check will form part of a safeguarding check, and the search will purely be based on whether an individual is suitable to work with children. As care must be taken to avoid unconscious bias and any risk of discrimination, a person who will not be on the appointment panel will conduct the search and will only share information if and when findings are relevant and of concern.

This role is UK based and your Right to Work will need to be established as part of the appointment process

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (2013 and 2020)) provide 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. The Ministry of Justice guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide via https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974 .