Teaching Assistant - Whitchurch Combined School

Overview

Term Time Only

Salary type:Pay Range 1B: currently £20,297 - £21,223 Full Time Equivalent (FTE)

Actual Salary:Approx. £13,230 - £13,834 per annum

Hours:29.16 hours per week, possibly with additional hours to cover the school lunch time.

Contract type:Fixed term for one year from September 2023.

About us

Whitchurch Combined School is a village school just north of Aylesbury. We are a committed and enthusiastic team and are looking for the right person to join us.

Please visit our school website: www.whitchurchcombined.co.uk

About the role

This is an exciting opportunity to work as part of our dedicated support staff team at Whitchurch Combined School. We are looking for a hardworking, resilient person with a sense of fun who will always put the children first and is able to respond appropriately to the wide ranging needs of our pupils. We anticipate that the successful candidate will work in Key Stage 2 (7 – 11 years of age).

About you

This is an important role within the school and a positive attitude and empathic manner along with the ability to prioritise and deal with a demanding workload is vital. You will be an excellent communicator, confident dealing with staff, students and parents. You will have good attention to detail and have the capacity to work in an environment that requires diplomacy, tact and confidentiality.

The ideal candidate will hold or be working towards their CIPD qualification or equivalent and have experience of HR in an educational setting. Knowledge of SIMS would be advantageous, however full training can be offered to the successful applicant if necessary.

Other information

Visits to the school are warmly welcome. To arrange a visit or to find out more about the role, please contact our school office on 01494 529589.

Please send completed application forms to the email address: office@whitchurch.bucks.sch.uk

We reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so please be advised to submit your application as early as possible.

Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Any offer of employment will be subject to satisfactory DBS enhanced disclosure and references.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:

• All unspent convictions and conditional cautions
• All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020).

For further information on filtering please refer toNacro guidanceand theguidance issued by the Ministry of Justice(see, in particular, the section titled ‘Exceptions Order’).

It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. All shortlisted applicants will be required to complete self-disclosure form and return prior to interview.