Vacancy Reference
JOB002581
Job Title
SEND Teaching Assistant (Primary) – Level 3
Job Start Date
6 January 2025
Salary Range
Salary £26,409- £32,654 Scale point 9 – 22 (Full Time, TTO) Actual salary based on scale point 9 approximately £23,087
Hours Per Week
36.5
Working Pattern
Term time only
School Address
Waverley School
Yardley Green Road
Bordesley Green
Birmingham
B9 5QA
Contact Email
Applications@waverley.bham.sch.uk
Contract Type
Permanent
Closing Date
22 November 2024, 10:00am
Job Information

Waverley Education Foundation (WEF) is a Multi Academy Trust, which operates both Waverley School and Waverley Studio College. WEF has over 2000 students on roll across the trust. It develops, brokers and delivers a range of services which support learning and leadership & management and improve outcomes for children and young people.

Waverley School is an all through school for students aged 4-19. It also has a Resource Base for students with cognition and learning difficulties.

In its recent Ofsted inspection in September 2021, Waverley School was graded as a ‘Good’ School. We have state of the art facilities for learning, teaching and training and a strong staff team that are committed to the learning and development of all our students.

Our core values of Humanity, Equality, Aspiration and Respect support our vision to create a learning community where we work together to achieve excellence in everything we do.
“Pupils have a strong understanding of diversity, respect and tolerance, including for different family lifestyles” – Ofsted 2021

As part of the exciting development plans for the Resource Base, we are expanding our team to support pupils’ needs. We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join our Primary Phase team as a SEND specific Teaching Assistant (L3, GR3).
The ideal candidate will be able to encourage, motivate and enthuse pupils to promote individual progress and social collaboration. The applicant must be able to work as part of a team. The applicant should be willing to support the successful integration of Resource Base pupils in mainstream education as well as able to nourish needs within the Resource Base.

Our aim is to support each and every pupil to be the best that they can be. We aspire to ensure that every child develops the skills they need to be independent young adults who have promising futures. The applicant’s views need to align with this vision and be supportive of progress towards these goals.

You will need to be highly motivated and passionate about making a difference to the lives of young people, with the ability to inspire and motivate students.

The successful candidate will need to meet the requirements of the person specification in order to be offered the post and will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.

For further details or to arrange an informal visit to see the school please call our HR team on 0121 566 6607.

Closing Date: 22 November 2024, 10:00am

This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016). Therefore the ability to speak fluent and spoken English is an essential requirement for this role.

How to Apply:

For an application pack please visit our website: www.thewef.org.uk

Completed applications should be sent to Applications@waverley.bham.sch.uk 

Applications received after this date and time will not be considered.

If you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

Safeguarding
This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including:
enhanced DBS; Prohibition check; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work.
enhanced DBS; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work.
References
All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.
Short-listed candidates
An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates.
Rehabilitation of Offenders
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.
Which means 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.
Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.