Kidsgrove Primary School is a friendly and nurturing primary school with a strong family ethos. We pride ourselves on creating a positive and inclusive environment where children feel safe, confident, and excited to learn. Our dedicated team works together to inspire young minds and support their development in all areas.
We are looking for a caring, enthusiastic, and proactive Teaching Assistant to join our team. You will work closely with teachers to support children’s learning, provide one-to-one or small group assistance, and help create a stimulating classroom environment. Your role will be essential in ensuring that every child gets the support they need to thrive.
We are a community school,
and we encompass all that this means. Our close links with families and the
local area ensure we provide a relevant, ambitious, community-based education
with a global caring outlook. We strongly believe that our children deserve the
best opportunities in life and education, and we sit in the unique position to
be able to offer this. Providing an inclusive education for all underpins the
values we hold at Kidsgrove Primary.
Shaw Education Trust are
a thriving mix of diverse and growing schools including Primary, Secondary and
Special Schools all working together to improve the lives of young people in
our communities. We are sponsored by Shaw Trust a charity organisation that
focuses on transforming lives. We’re a growing group of dynamically awesome
academies providing education to children of all ages and abilities. Staff
across our team of schools are dedicated to ensuring that every child has the
opportunity to be successful, whatever their starting point in life.
We
believe that everyone has the potential to be extraordinary!
To this end, our growing number of Primary schools within
the trust tirelessly pursue excellence through research-based collaboration and
innovation. Our developing, Trust-wide,
3D Primary curriculum and pioneering Digital Strategy is designed to create
inspirational, energetic and immersive learning experiences. These enable every child to flourish within a
caring, stimulating and purposeful atmosphere; fully prepared for their next
stage of life and learning.
We know that at primary school, the quality of teaching
affects both children’s social behaviour and intellectual development. This age
and stage of learning has a more powerful impact on children’s academic
progress than any other educational sector.
Home too has a vital part to play! - Recognised through extensive
research, it is the importance of early experiences and the powerful
combination of home, pre-school and primary school partnerships that set the foundations
enabling our amazing children and pupils to succeed.
Unlike other MATs, we don’t enforce a curriculum for all
our schools to follow. Instead, we support each individual school to offer a
programme that enables our students to deepen their knowledge, develop their
skills, sparks their imagination and fires their curiosity.
Our schools span from Birmingham to Bury, meaning that we can
support students from all walks of life, no matter their background or
socioeconomic status. In doing this, we can help ensure all children are able
to access a high standard of education, with all being treated equally.
Shaw Education Trust offer the following employee
benefits with your Teaching or Support Staff employment:
- An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme
(Support Staff) / Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff)
- Support Staff only based on working full
time, all year - Generous holiday entitlement from your first day of
employment (37 days holiday rising to 39 days after 5
years’ service including Bank Holidays)
- Electric Car Scheme: Environmentally friendly
vehicles with our electric car scheme.
- Access to Medicash Health & Wellbeing Plan:
Enjoy health services designed to support your well-being.
- Free DiscountForTeachers Scheme for all staff
(Support and Teaching), Exclusive discounts to save money with a wide selection
of discounts and exclusive offers from hundreds of the biggest brands.
- Free Eye Tests
- Cycle to work scheme
- Access
to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help you grow, contribute and flourish in your role and in the Trust.
We know our people are the key to
our success and so we’re committed to ensuring the employment
experience at Shaw Education Trust is a rewarding one.
Actual Salary: £17,247 - £17,797
Kidsgrove Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
This position is subject to appropriate vetting procedures including an online checks and criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) which will require you to disclose details of all unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions.
All shortlisted candidates will undergo an online search as part of Trust safer recruitment.
We reserve the right to appoint before the closing date as we review applications on an on-going basis and interviews may be arranged as suitable candidates are identified, therefore, we encourage early applications.
We are an Equal Opportunities employer and will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.
In accordance with our safer recruitment policy CV’s alone will not be accepted.
We reserve the right to appoint before the closing date, therefore, we encourage early applications.
Successful candidates will be subject to a fully Enhanced DBS check along with other relevant employment checks.