Teaching Assistant in Sunbury-on-Thames

Salary: £18,348 per annum (based on working pattern) Monday to Friday, Term-time only (8:30am to 3:15pm).

We have an opportunity for a Teaching Assistant to join us at Kenyngton Manor Primary School. You will support teachers with their responsibility for the development and education of children across the school, including pupils with special needs. A confident communicator, you will have good interpersonal and listening skills, and the ability to meet pupil’s needs for encouragement, reassurance and comfort, attending to their personal requirements and physical care. Flexibility to support pupils across the key stages is important. Your day may involve manual handling.

Responsibilities:

• Support teachers with the development and education of children across the school, including pupils with special needs.
• Communicate confidently, demonstrating good interpersonal and listening skills, to meet pupil needs for encouragement, reassurance, comfort, personal requirements and physical care.
• Assist teachers in delivering and evaluating programmes, adapting teaching materials to suit the requirements of individual pupils and groups.
• Deliver 1-1 and/or group support and intervention, and monitor pupil performance under the direction of senior staff.
• Provide flexibility to support pupils across key stages, including manual handling as required.

All applicants must provide evidence of right to work in the UK prior to commencement of employment. If you have any questions about the role or the application process, please contact the THPT HR Team by email. Tours to the school are warmly welcomed; if you would like to request a tour of the school, or meet with us informally, then please email the HR Team.

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. We are a values-based organisation and seek to recruit individuals who can demonstrate our values. Please ensure your supporting statement reflects our values.

Values and Behaviours:

• Integrity
• Partnership
• Advocacy
• Resilience
• Compassion
• Aspiration

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 is 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.

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, in accordance with KCSIE. Early applications are encouraged. We reserve the right to interview and appoint prior to the closing date of this advertisement.