Teaching Assistant in Leatherhead

Working Pattern & Hours: 30 hours per week/39 weeks per year. Monday to Friday.

We have an exciting opportunity for Teaching Assistants to join the team at Fox Grove School. You will be part of a team of teaching assistants, who support the pupils by providing the best quality universal, targeted and specialist support in all areas of their Education and Health Care Plan (EHCP). A great training package is provided. With the right support in place, every pupil can access a broad & balanced creative curriculum.

Teaching assistant professional development is of the utmost importance at Fox Grove. New knowledge is shared, and time is provided for teaching assistants to collaborate on what they have learnt and how this will impact on their classroom practice. Fox Grove School are looking for Teaching Assistants from a wide range of backgrounds.

Responsibilities:

• Any employment background will be considered; we just need a commitment to bringing out the best in all Fox Grove pupils.
• Anyone who is interested in learning more about SEND and/or education.
• Mainstream practitioners who want to experience working with young people with SEND.
• College/university leavers wanting to explore the world of education and SEND.

Fox Grove will support your professional development to become outstanding classroom practitioners in your area of interest, this includes:

• The opportunity to support a personalised curriculum.
• Working creatively with others including specialists e.g., therapists.
• Being part of The Howard Partnership Trust that has expertise in all areas of SEND as it is a family of primary, secondary, specialist centres and special schools.
• Provide an opportunity for you to be a lead practitioner in your area of interest e.g., academic or EHCP areas and to share this expertise with others.

A comprehensive and interesting induction and training package including:

• TEACCH – supporting pupil independence.
• Positive Behaviour Management training – providing the best universal supports.
• Being a compassionate school.
• Pedagogy of reading, writing and mathematics.
• Targeted interventions (Attention Autism, Augmented Communication, Zones of Regulation, Social Thinking and Emotion Coaching).

THPT offers:

• An opportunity to be part of a dynamic and developing organisation.
• An excellent benefit package to include Cycle to Work, Sainsbury’s Loyalty Discount and access to discount schemes.
• A fantastic Local Government Pension Scheme, including generous employer contributions.
• Rewards and Benefits Scheme that includes Loyalty and Service Awards.
• Full access to the Employee Assistance Programme from Education Support.

All adults employed by the Trust have a responsibility for data protection and have a duty to observe and follow the principles of the GDPR Regulations.

The Howard Partnership Trust welcomes applications from all, irrespective of gender, marital status, disability, race, age or sexual orientation. All applicants must be able to provide evidence of their Right to Work in the UK prior to commencement of employment. As part of our need to comply with UK immigration rules, you will be required to provide Home Office stipulated documentation prior to interview.

Early applications are encouraged. We reserve the right to interview and appoint prior to the closing date of this advertisement.

As well as verification of identity, we ask all successful candidates to undertake an enhanced DBS disclosure. In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) guidance, we may also conduct an online search about any shortlisted candidates as part of our due diligence to identify any matters that might relate directly to our legal duty to meet safeguarding duties.

Safeguarding & Further Information:

The successful candidate will be subject to a satisfactory enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The Howard Partnership Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Due to the nature of this role, it will be necessary for the appropriate level of criminal record disclosure to be undertaken. In making your application, it is essential you disclose whether you have any pending charges, convictions, bind-overs or cautions and, if so, for which offences. This post will be exempt from the provisions of Section 4 (2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Therefore, applicants are not entitled to withhold information about convictions which for other purposes are ‘spent’ under the provision of the Act, and, in the event of the employment being taken up; any failure to disclose such convictions will result in dismissal or disciplinary action. The fact that a pending charge, conviction, bind-over or caution has been recorded against you will not necessarily debar you from consideration for this appointment.