Teaching Assistant

Part of Eastern Multi-Academy Trust

Tel: 01366 377205

Email: peopleadvisoryservices@eastern-mat.co.uk

Website: www.eastern-mat.co.uk 

• Salary – Grade D, £14,407 - £14,635 actual pa
• Temporary – maternity cover 
• Part Time
• 25 hours per week
• Term Time plus 1 week

Happy, enthusiastic, love learning, enjoy helping children to succeed, have a positive outlook? …then Teaching Assistants, we need you!   

We are looking for an experienced teaching assistant, to support our supportive and successful staff team, during the length of a maternity leave. Contract to end 31 August 2025. This post may be extended to support individual need. 

We hope to find an excellent teaching assistant with a successful track record whilst being flexible to work across the primary age range. The postholder will work mainly in class but there may be substantial amounts of time where you may be carrying out interventions or working 1-1 or with large groups of pupils as needed.  

Are you:

• Creative, flexible and positive
• Keen to raise standards and always looking to move forward
• Focussed on learning and achieving outstanding attitude and effort from pupils
• Willing and enthusiastic in your work with children
• Energetic, organised and a team player
• An excellent role model for children
• Great at managing behaviour and providing nurture
• Innovative, imaginative and inspiring to work with
• Able to offer Primary School Experience 
• Capable of covering whole classes

If so, come and work with us at Southery Academy

Our Academy is in a small village in a delightful rural setting. We converted to Academy Status in June 2016. The children are confident and engaging to work with. Our community is close knit with a very active Friends of the School group. With a relatively new leadership team, we are starting the next phase of our journey with vigour and enthusiasm. We are embedding our knowledge based curriculum and further developing our staff team.  

You will need a good sense of humour and be a very flexible member of our small staff team. You will need to have good maths and English subject knowledge, be well organised and firm, but fun! We hope the post holder will be flexible to work across the Primary age range.

We can offer you a supportive environment with on-going CPD and a forward looking school. Applicants should state any experience they have, in teaching and any other work environment, their educational philosophy, what you could bring to the post and future aspirations.

PE experience would be an advantage but not essential. This post could be extended depending on budget for individual pupils. 

You will need to work across Monday to Friday each week, and will be required to attend work during term time, plus an additional week to incorporate training days at the school.

Skills & Experience

Teaching Assistant 

You will be qualified to Level 2 in English and Maths (GCSE A-C or equivalent) and previous similar experience would be an advantage. Full training and support is provided.

Please contact Becky Satchell on 01553 603019 or - peopleadvisoryservices@eastern-mat.co.uk for further information regarding this role, the academy and the Eastern Multi-Academy Trust.

For full details of the duties and requirements of this role please review the job description and person specification.

How to apply

A Recruitment Pack is available from ‘Attachments’.

For this vacancy, if you click on the ‘Apply for Job’ button, you will be redirected to our recruitment website to apply online.

If we receive sufficient applicants of a high calibre, we may bring the closing date forward.

Closing date:  11 December 2024, 8am

Interview date:   19 December 2024

Eastern Multi Academy Trust (EMAT) is an equal opportunities employer and employs suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion / belief, sexual orientation or age. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment. Any appointments will be subject to satisfactory medical checks, references and an enhanced DBS check including the Children's Barred List.

EMAT is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit. We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, staff engagement forums, employee support services to welcome and support staff from different backgrounds. Our ambition is to work together to promote a more inclusive environment and signal our commitment to celebrate and promote diversity and welcome part time or flexible working applicants.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and you will be required to undergo an Enhanced DBS check or Enhanced DBS check with barred list. If you have information to declare it may be protected under the Exceptions Orders and you may not be required to declare it. You will be asked to make a criminal conviction declaration if you are shortlisted for the post. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.