Teaching Assistant - Damers First School

at  Dorset Councils

17.5 hours a week, 39 weeks per year, term time only.
We are seeking to appoint a Teaching Assistant to start early November. The position would be with working with a range of pupils with additional needs as directed by the school SENCo or Complex Communication Base leader.

Damers School is a dynamic, unique, child-centred, caring school with high aspirations for all pupils. We are an Eco school with big ideas and pride ourselves in helping every child thrive with a broad and balanced curriculum that offers many opportunities for each child to achieve their potential. Damers is located in the heart of Poundbury, an extremely supportive community in a fantastic Dorset location. We can offer you:

• A friendly, welcoming and supportive team of staff and governors
• Kind, polite and hard-working children who are proud of their school
• A supportive and aspirational workplace where professional development is valued
• An experienced Inclusion Team

We are looking for someone who:

• Has some knowledge and experience of working in a busy school and teaching and learning KS1 & 2 children.
• Will be proud to work as part of our school and will uphold our ethos and values.
• Understands the development of our youngest children.
• Is willing to work with pupils with additional needs and deploy a range of different strategies in order to support them
• Is willing to support pupils during lunch time through providing games and activities as part of our enhanced lunchtime provision
• Enjoys a challenge and problem solving within a supportive, fun team
• Can offer new ideas and be open to learning new skills.

Our ideal candidate will be flexible and adaptable, have patience and understanding, and clear communication skills.
The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people; this is a commitment which we expect all staff and volunteers to share.
The successful candidate will be required to have a Disclosure and Barring Service check in line with the Governments safer recruitment guidelines.
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
This role is UK based and your Right to Work will need to be established as part of the appointment process.
The pro rata salary shown is based on the number of hours and weeks worked and paid annual leave entitlement for an employee under 5 years’ service.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (2013 and 2020)) provide 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. The MOJ’s guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.
Keeping Children Safe in Education
The school will conduct online searches of shortlisted candidates. This check will be part of a safeguarding check, and the search will purely be based on whether an individual is suitable to work with children. All aspects of social media and internet searches will be conducted. As care must be taken to avoid unconscious bias and any risk of discrimination, a person who will not on the appointment panel will conduct the searches and will only share information if and when findings are relevant and of concern.
The salary quoted is the annual salary for the position at the time of advert. The salary will be paid in equal monthly instalments and will be adjusted at the start of employment and again if leaving part way through the school year to ensure the correct salary is received for the work completed in an academic year

Please refer the Job description for details