Primary Graduate Teaching Assistant

Primary Graduate Teaching Assistant

Our Primary Academy is seeking to appoint a positive and engaging Primary Graduate Teaching Assistant to join our dedicated team.

We are particularly interested in Graduates with the following degrees and previous experience of supporting young children in schools:

• Education Studies
• Primary Education BEd
• Psychology with Education BSc
• Community Education
• Childhood and Young People Studies
• Social Work

Our Primary Academy is a positive and happy school where the development of the whole child is paramount. As a team, we ensure children are given every opportunity to thrive in an environment of high aspirations, care and mutual respect. Their work is valued and celebrated and all children, regardless of their abilities are of equal worth.

Details of the Role:

• Assisting in the preparation and reproduction of learning materials and the management of resources

• Assisting in the deployment and setting up of equipment and resources and making them ready for use in order to organise the teaching environment.
• Overseeing the care and cleanliness of the teaching environment, equipment, apparatus, and materials
• Supporting teaching staff or senior colleagues with routine administration
• Organisation of own records to support teachers.
• Contributing to the assessment of pupils’ progress and development as directed by the teacher through observations, basic record-keeping, and discussion with the teacher (for example contributing evidence to the planning and production of IEPs
• Supervising the use of equipment as required to maintain pupils’ needs and support their participation in learning tasks and activities.
• Assisting in ensuring that the length of time spent on tasks and activities is consistent with the individual pupils’ needs and according to instructions.
• Assisting pupils to carry out programmes set by teaching staff.
• Assisting individual pupils or small groups of pupils in classroom activities under the specific direction of the teacher and/o other support staff
• Supporting all pupils included in a mainstream setting, support base, home base or special school, or any other leaving environment as appropriate.
• Maintaining awareness of pupils’ needs and targets.
• Assisting with distressed children under the general direction of teaching staff or other members of the support staff

How to apply:

Your application should be made after reading the full job advert. To apply for the role, you will need to send a full Curriculum Vitae (CV) listing all of your qualifications, grades and work experience (including voluntary/placements). Your work experience will need to also include dates or the length of the role.

To apply for this opportunity send your detailed CV to Chloe at Clarus Education now, to be considered. We will contact those shortlisted within 48 hours of an application. Please note that due to the applications we receive daily, we will not be able to contact non-shortlisted candidates.

We are dedicated to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to enhanced clearance through the Disclosure and Barring Service and employment will be subject to references.

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