Childhaven Community Nursery School
General Teaching Assistant (SEND)
Contract: Fixed term until August 2025
Salary/ Hourly Rate: Grade CD, £12.00 per hour, £23,114 per annum full time equivalent + SEN allowance (Pay award pending)
Hours/ Working Pattern: 23.75 hours per week, Monday – Friday, 8:30am – 1:15pm, Term time only
Closing Date: 11:59am, Wednesday 9th October 2024
Interview Date: Monday 14th October 2024
Start Date: As soon as possible
Are you currently looking for an opportunity to make a positive impact on the early educational experience of children?
About Childhaven
Here at Childhaven Community Nursery School we provide a vibrant, welcoming, and inspirational setting and serve the communities around the Scarborough Town. In July this year we celebrated receiving our fourth Outstanding Ofsted rating!
We are one of only 3 maintained nursery schools in North Yorkshire and we offer children a unique start to their education. Children aged between 2 and 4 play and learn together in our wonderful Victorian building and garden. We have also been designated a DfE Early Years Stronger Practice Hub and we share our practice with other settings across the region.
Our learning environment and education provision that is offered to our 95 children on roll is second to none and our teaching assistants play an important part in school life. Our team ethos helps make our school welcoming, calm and purposeful.
We are in our busiest term of the year and an increase in pupil numbers means that we are looking to appoint a motivated Teaching Assistant to join our school.
You will work with individual and groups of children as part of our staff team. We are continuously developing our specialist practice in supporting children with a wide range of additional needs and we pride ourselves in having the highest expectations for all children. You will have a varied and exciting role helping some of our most vulnerable children to reach their full potential.
Our Opportunity
We encourage interest and applications from candidates who are interested in and would thrive in working within nursery education which offers reward, challenge and where no two days are the same. We are looking for someone with a genuine passion for working with very young children, and experience working with children who have additional needs. We are working hard to develop our nurture provision for some of our most vulnerable children and we are looking to strengthen our team who work flexibly with all children who are on roll. This post is particularly focused on working intensively with children who require support with communication and interaction.
The successful candidates will ideally hold English and Maths GCSE level ‘C’ or above or equivalent.
Experience in working with young children with SEND is essential.
Key duties:
- Engage with children to develop sustained, shared thinking, and promote the characteristics of effective learning, as defined in the EYFS framework
- Prepare and maintain our learning environment
- Carry out routine tasks to support the work of teacher, HLTAs and ATAs
- Provide intensive support to some of our children with additional needs
You will:
- Ideally have previous experience in this type of role or with children and young people
- Be able to support in the delivery of high-quality learning experiences for all children, including those with SEND
- Have high expectations of learning and behaviour and inspire and motivate our children
- Be supportive, nurturing and understanding with high expectations
- Be one of our play people
- Seek to make learning exciting and a positive experience
- Work well as part of a large team
- Demonstrate good communication skills both orally and written
We can offer you
- A warm, happy school where we value everyone and have a philosophy of kindness and support for each other. Our approach is not always conventional but has the impact our children need- and deserve
- Happy, enthusiastic and well-behaved children
- A school with exciting and attractive learning environments and where no two days are the same
- A school who puts nurture for staff and children at the forefront
- A place where children’s dreams come true
- A forward-thinking school who will be committed to your own professional development and provide you with many opportunities to advance in your Early Years career.
If you think you would enjoy a job where every day brings you joy, please get in touch with us!
Queries / Visits
Informal chats about the role are welcomed and encouraged
Please contact Chloe Bullen on 01609 536 964 or via chloe.bullen@northyorks.gov.uk
Chloe has been engaged to support us with recruiting to this exciting opportunity.
Application Process
An email will be sent to candidates with the outcome of the shortlisting process.
We do not accept CV’s.
Please get in touch if you require the form to be sent in a different format.
When applying please take into account the following:
Supporting Information
The supporting information section of your application should clearly evidence your ability to meet the requirements we have outlined in the job description & person specification. This will be used to shortlist applicants for this role and therefore it is imperative that you provide evidence as requested.
References
When completing your application, please provide two employment referees. Generally, this is your current and most recent employer. Please note your referee should ideally be a previous line manager or someone in a position of authority.
We are committed to meeting the needs of our diverse community and aim to have a workforce reflecting this diversity. We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We have a robust child protection policy and all staff will receive training relevant to their role at induction and throughout employment at the school. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Please note this post is in regulated activity and exempt from the rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and subject to satisfactory references and an enhanced DBS criminal records and barred list check for work with children. An online search may be undertaken as part of the recruitment process on information available in the public domain. Candidates should disclose anything that may be relevant in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education.
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