Teaching Assistant

TA/ Teaching Assistant

Stourbridge

Rate of pay: £384.60 - £425 P/W

About the role:

Connex Education is thrilled to be working with a mainstream primary school, with an element of SEN, in the heart of Stourbridge. This role requires a nurturing, passionate and encouraging teaching assistant who is willing to embrace this school’s ethos and create meaningful interactions with both staff and students. As a teaching assistant your role is crucial in supporting teachers and pupils on a day-to-day basis. You will need to be flexible and adaptive as well as display a genuine passion for your responsibilities in encouraging pupils to feel inspired and engaged. As you will be working with a mixture of mainstream and SEN students you will need to be knowledgeable in your approach and guidance through each interaction you have and to remember that any two days will never be the same!

About the school

This school strives to create an inclusive environment for both pupils and families as well as display their genuine passion for higher standards and improving the quality of life for pupils’ both present and future. This school is adamant to encourage students to be confident, adaptive and learn life skills they will use all the way into their adult life. As well as this impressive and inspiring ethos they also are very prideful about the type of curriculum-based activities they use to engage children into loving and appreciating knowledge and learning which makes this a creative and engaging school to work in.

Benefits of working with Connex Education:

• Competitive daily rate.
• PAYE paid weekly.
• Free access to our SEND Toolkit skills development package compromising over 19 courses.
• Funded formal qualifications from Level 2 SEND, Level 3 Teaching and Learning, Level 4 HLTA and Level 5 TEFL.
• Career progression via our care to classroom setting conversion course.
• Wellbeing programme and refresher training for life in a 21st century classroom.
• Trainee teacher apprenticeship opportunities.

Role Requirements:

• Level 2 or Level 3 Supporting Teaching and Learning OR Equivalent Level 3 UK Educational qualifications desired.
• Previous experience working in Education would be advantageous.
• A commitment to promoting equality and diversity in the classroom.
• An understanding of child protection and safeguarding guidelines
• Enhanced DBS on the update service or willingness to apply for one through Connex Education.

Are you interested?

If you are interested in applying for this role, please apply or send your CV to (url removed)