Role: EAL TA

Contracted hours: 34.5 

Salary: Level 3 SCP 5 - Actual pay salary: £21,302.54

Working hours (start and finish times tbc)

Permanent 

Monday to Friday. 

39 weeks 

Are you an experienced EAL Teaching Assistant with a strong desire to work with children and looking for a new challenge?

We welcome applicants from a range of experiences and key stages, recognising that colleagues can develop and grow into this role. Your attitudes, ethos and skills are as important as your experiences.

We are a highly inclusive, community focused school where children are at the forefront of everything that we do. We are seeking to appoint a committed, enthusiastic and child-centred colleague to be part of the team. 

Key Tasks of the Post:

1. To provide English language teaching and support to meet the needs of children for whom English is an additional language. You will:

• Provide appropriate pastoral support to newly arrived EAL pupils and their families.

• Participate in the admissions of new arrivals, including conducting an initial EAL assessment and sharing information with staff.

• Assist in the planning and preparation of lessons attended by EAL pupils.

• Work with colleagues to develop appropriate resources.

• Work either within the classroom, within small groups or on a one-to-one basis with EAL pupils to provide language support specific to the curriculum.

• Develop pupils’ competence in English for both social and academic purposes

• Collaborate in devising and implementing teaching strategies that provide support and practice in talking, listening, reading and writing skills in English.

• Maintain records and provide reports of EAL pupils’ progress at the school in accordance with the EAL assessment framework.

• Support colleagues to develop their knowledge of the linguistic, cultural and religious backgrounds of children and their families and the social and political factors which affect their lives

• Develop and maintain a good home-school partnership with the guidance of the EAL co-ordinator ; consult with and inform parents of the progress, attainment and attitudes of their children.

• Contribute to the management of EAL students’ behaviour and encourage the student to conform to the schools expectations related to behaviour.

Grove Academy is committed to safeguarding children and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks along with other relevant employment checks.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date if a suitable candidate is found.