Teaching Assistant - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Birmingham City Council

Description

St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School

Hob Moor Road

South Yardley

Birmingham

B25 8QL

Telephone number:

Email:

Required for September 2024, 32.5 hours per week - term time only

We are looking to employ a Teaching Assistant, who is passionate, hardworking and enthusiastic, and flexible in their ability to support learning.

We can offer you a happy and welcoming school, friendly staff, a supportive leadership team and the opportunity to undergo professional development.

It is essential that you can demonstrate experience of:

• supporting children to achieve their best across the curriculum
  
• experience of working within a school environment
  
• engagement with young people to motivate them to learn
  
• being professional, adaptable and can show initiative in tailoring learning to meet individual's needs
  
• working with children with SEND
  
  We can offer you:
  • happy and well-motivated pupils who demonstrate outstanding behaviour
    
  • a welcoming, friendly school with a commitment to your continuing professional development
    
  • a happy, hardworking and supportive staff team
    
  • a helpful and caring Governing Body
    
  • a range of excellent teaching resources
    
  • an inclusive ethos based on mutual respect
    
    This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act Therefore the ability to speak fluent and spoken English is an essential requirement for this role.
    
    Visits can be arranged by contacting the school office or by emailing the email address listed above.
    
    Application forms can be downloaded or are available from the school office.
    
    

    Please ensure that all applications are completed on the CES application form.
    
    

    This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS; Prohibition check (where applicable) Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work. All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references. An online search will also be carried out on all shortlisted candidates.
    
    

    This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are 'protected', so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.
    
    

    This post is not part of the City Council and the successful candidate will not hold a Birmingham City Council Contract of Employment.