Teaching Assistant

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Pay £85-95 a day

Ref KHLSA

Posted Tuesday 26th Sep 2023

Start Date Tuesday 10th Oct 2023

Close Date Thursday 30th Nov 2023 (closed)

Key Stage Secondary

Job Description

Our client, a comprehensive school with good public transport links, is looking for a Teaching Assistant to support individuals and groups of students to enable access to learning, contributing to the development and maintenance of a purposeful, nurturing learning environment.

The role is Full time, term time only and to start as soon as possible, on an ongoing basis.

We would like to hear from you if you have:

Qualifications to degree level or equivalent
Some knowledge of strategies in working with young people with challenging behaviours
Knowledge of some of the social issues facing students from disadvantaged backgrounds
Awareness of Health and Safety issues in the workplace.
Experience of working directly with young people in an education or training environment, supporting the learning of students.
Experience of establishing and maintaining positive working relationships with a range of stakeholders, at all levels.
Experience of managing and being responsible for own workload.

Your main responsibilities will be:

To supervise and provide particular support for identified students, in 1:1, group or whole class situations, ensuring their safety and access to learning
To assist in the development of appropriate resources, schemes of work and teaching strategies, working with the teacher to ensure the provision supports each identified student's learning needs
To assist in evaluating identified students' progress through agreed assessment activities
To provide detailed and regular feedback to teachers on students' achievement, progress and needs
To lead small group sessions and interventions as appropriate
To attend to the students' personal needs where required
To support with behaviour management, using appropriate strategies in line with academy policy
To contribute to creating a purposeful and supportive learning environment
To undertake structured and agreed learning activities/teaching programmes as appropriate, adjusting activities to ensure achievement of learning goals

Why choose KTS:

PAYE – we pay PAYE meaning your tax is all worked out for you and we never use umbrella companies, meaning the money you earn is yours to keep – besides the usual deductions of tax, NI (and pension and student loan if applicable) – there are no additional deductions from your pay
Pension scheme – we offer a pension scheme with a total of an 8% contribution – your other pensions can be transferred into this pot too, keeping it all in one convenient place for you (different to the Teachers Pension)
Refer a friend – recommend your friends, family, colleagues to KTS, and you will receive a £50 referral fee. This can be teachers, TAs, support staff.
Guaranteed Work Scheme (GWS) – a type of contract where you are guaranteed payment, regardless of if we are able to find you work. We are so confident that we will be able to find you appropriate work, that if there are ever any days where we are unable to find you work, you will still be paid in line with your GWS
Proven track record of success – we have years of experience as well as well established relationships with schools meaning we are extremely busy and can provide you with supply teaching work on all your available days. Our Google reviews speak for themselves
In depth face to face registration – we take the time to meet you in person when you register with us so that we can get to know you and exactly what you are looking for, this way you haven’t got to send us any ID online, you can bring it all with you
Members of the REC – similar to Ofsted for schools, the REC audit us to make sure we are doing everything correctly and doing the best we can for our teachers

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