Details:
- Salary: £83.40 - 93.40 - Day
- Job Type: Temporary
- Job Status: Full-Time
- Salary Per: Day
- Location: Stafford
- Date: 2 weeks ago
Description:
Teaching Assistant Training Program
Located within the Stafford Area
Pay
Salary is dependent on experience, training, or qualifications. The minimum experience, training or qualifications required for this position can be found below.
ABC Teachers, along with our sister companies SMART Teachers and Vision for Education, work with thousands of primary schools and alternative provisions across England. We’re passionate about making a positive impact in education. In partnership with schools in our local communities, we are proud to launch our National Teaching Assistant Programme, designed to support those who want to start a Teaching Assistant career.
The Programme
Working alongside our client schools, we will provide the successful Trainee Teaching Assistant with high quality training and paid on the job experience.
Following a successful interview and pending suitability, safeguarding and identity checks, we will work to secure you a paid placement in a school to further develop your skills. You will be supported in deciding whether you’d prefer to work in primary, secondary or SEND provisions and will receive ongoing support from a dedicated consultant.
Prior to starting your placement, you will be required to complete a training programme delivered by ABC Teachers and school leaders, which will give you the essential skills you need to work as a Teaching Assistant.
The Role
The role of a Teaching Assistant is vital in the day-to-day running of schools. The best Teaching Assistants have excellent communication skills and can build positive relationships with pupils and staff, quickly and effectively.
Depending on the role and the school, you will be working with the class teacher to manage behaviour, support with interventions, and provide additional support to children with SEND (special educational needs and disabilities).
You will assist the class teacher with recording and reporting on pupil progress and behaviour and help ensure that children are making good progress in the classroom.
Requirements
To be considered for the National Teaching Assistant Programme, you will:
· Be compassionate, understanding, and caring.
· Be able to build positive relationships with children and young people.
· Be passionate and driven about improving the outcomes for children and young people.
· Be flexible, proactive and a team player.
· Understand the crucial importance of keeping children and young people safe.
· Be able to demonstrate at interview the reasons why you want to start a career in education and explain your understanding of the role of a Teaching Assistant and the important part they play in the school community.
· Be committed to completing the required training and participating in ongoing CPD.
· Be willing to pay for an enhanced DBS check and register with the Update Service.
ABC Teachers is committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults. We take our responsibilities extremely seriously. All staff we register will undertake thorough interviewing and referencing checks and hold, or be prepared to undergo, an Enhanced DBS check that must be registered on the Update Service.
About ABC Teachers
ABC Teachersis a market-leading education recruitment and supply agency committed to the learning and development of young people. With branches across the country, we are an employer of choice for high-quality primary, secondary and SEND teaching and support staff.
ABC Teachers do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.
What ABC Teachers offer
As a valued employee of ABC Teachers, you will receive:
Excellent daily rates paid weekly by our in-house Payroll team using the Pay As You Earn (PAYE) system.
Guaranteed pay scheme (subject to availability and qualifying criteria).
Pension contributions (subject to a qualifying period).
Full compliance with AWR (Agency Workers’ Regulations), to make sure you get the pay and working conditions you are entitled to.
FREE training to help with your professional development such as Team Teach training, online webinars and safeguarding and child protection updates.
Generous refer a friend or colleague bonus scheme.
Access to a dedicated consultant, who will provide ongoing support.
How to apply
If you are an individual who can enthuse, motivate and engage students and would like the challenge of working in a demanding and rewarding environment, then we want to hear from you.
Apply today via this website, or for more information about the training programme please contact the primary team on (phone number removed).
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