Level 3 Qualified Teaching Assistant

Do you enjoy adapting and developing innovative paths for learning?

Keen to join a company with abundant CPD and career pathways?

Are you a qualified Teaching Assistant?

Then WE WANT YOU!

Role: Level 3 Qualified Teaching Assistant

Location: Mansfield

Hours: 35 Hours per week - Term time only - Monday to Friday 8:30am-3:30pm (we can also offer part time of 3 days)

Actual Annual salary: £21,747.58 per annum

Hourly rate: £13.91 per hour 

Start Date: As soon as possible

Here at R.E.A.L Education (part of the wider Aurora Group) we have an exciting opportunity to welcome a qualified Teaching Assistant to our sites. For this role you will be based at our Mansfield sites. In your new role you would be responsible for working with small groups and 1:1 learners at one of our sites or in the community, delivering innovative and engaging sessions to young people who have SEN. All the resources will be provided to you so that you can focus on adapting the learning objectives to suit your learner’s needs.

Qualifications

• Level 3 Teaching Assistant qualification

Knowledge and Experience

• Relevant knowledge and experience of pupils with SEN
• Understanding of the Safeguarding principles and Child Protection procedures
• Experience of managing a range of approaches to behaviour, including managing behaviour that challenges.
• Experience working within an education setting as a Teaching Assistant or equivalent

 Skills

• Be positive and creative in meeting students’ needs
• Work on your own as well as part of a team
• Work collaboratively with other staff and professionals with good interpersonal skills
• Good numeracy and literacy skills
• Competent ICT skills
• Be flexible, adaptable and solution focused.

There is a need to be able to travel between sites within the specified locality to support and engage with young people as required. A valid driving licence and access to a vehicle are essential for transporting them to various locations. You will need to have business insurance.

Our Benefits 

• Life assurance 

• Competitive Pension 

• Perkbox - offering high street discounts 

• Employee assistance programme 

• Fully funded training and qualifications 

• Bike to work scheme 

• Free membership to our Health cash back plan - Claim back money on services such as dental, optical, physio and many more. 

• Free parking 

How to Apply:  

You can apply online by completing our online application form.  For more information on this position please contact sian.hartley-lory@theauroragroup.co.uk 

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check. 

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.