Teaching Assistant – Level 3 (Cover Supervisor) in Sheffield

Springwood Primary Academy are committed to making a real difference to the lives of our young people and will provide outstanding learning and enrichment opportunities for them throughout their time with us. To achieve this, we need a team of dedicated and outstanding staff who will contribute to our exceptional learning community.

We are seeking to appoint an ambitious and enthusiastic Level 3 Teaching Assistant (Cover Supervisor), who will complement the professional work of Teachers and colleagues. The successful candidate will:

• Plan, prepare and deliver learning activities for individuals or groups, or short term for whole classes.
• Monitor, assess, record and report on pupils’ progress, achievement and development.
• Provide cover for whole classes predominantly in upper KS2, with potential to cover across the school as needed.

The Level 3 Teaching Assistant (Cover Supervisor) will have experience of:

• Establishing productive working relationships with pupils, acting as a role model and setting high expectations.
• Supporting children consistently whilst recognising and responding to their individual needs.
• Teaching whole classes short term as required.
• Planning and teaching high quality learning activities designed to promote accelerated progress, address misconceptions and consolidate learning.
• Recording progress and achievement systematically, providing evidence of range and level of progress and attainment.
• Liaising with parents to support pupils’ learning and contributing to/leading meetings with parents to provide constructive feedback.
• Experience of working across all key stages.
• Modelling and promoting positive values, attitudes and behaviour.
• Having a willingness to be fully involved in the life of the academy.

The role is based at Springwood Primary Academy but may, on occasion, involve working at other academies within the trust.

Safeguarding

ACET is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All applicants should read our safeguarding Policy and Safer Recruitment Policy, which are available on the ‘policy’ section of our academy websites.

It is an offence to seek employment in regulated activity if you are barred from working with children. This post will involve regular contact with children and therefore is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Applicants are not entitled to withhold information about convictions, cautions or bind-over orders which for any other purposes are “spent” under the provisions of the Act. Any information that is “protected” under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 will not appear on a DBS certificate and does not need to be declared. Guidance on this can be found at this link.

Successful candidates will be subject to a DBS check at the appropriate level. Shortlisted candidates will be asked to complete a self-declaration related to their criminal record or any information that would make them unsuitable to work with children. Additional checks in relation to the Childcare Disqualification Regulations will be undertaken for successful candidates to junior academies. If you have lived or worked outside of the UK, additional information may be required from you to satisfy safer recruitment checks.

Equality

ACET is committed to ensuring equality of opportunity throughout the recruitment process. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, and your application will be assessed purely on your ability to do the job. We undertake to make any ‘reasonable adjustments’ to a job or workplace to counteract any disadvantages a disabled person may face. Where required, we will make reasonable adjustments to the selection process for an applicant with a disability.