- Job Title
- Teaching Assistant Level 2
- Job Start Date
- 3 February 2025
- Salary Range
- FET Range D - £24,119 - £26,095 (FTE) / £18,473 - £19,986 pa (actual) - plus SEN allowance
- Hours Per Week
- 32.5
- Working Pattern
- Term time only
- School Address
-
Leycroft Academy
Gressel Lane
Birmingham
B33 9UE - Contact Email
- recruitment@fet.ac
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Closing Date
- 12 January 2025, midnight
- Job Information
-
Leycroft Academy has recently de-amalgamated having previously been part of Brays School; this new school specialises in the education of primary-aged pupils with a diagnosis on the Autistic Spectrum. The school has high standards of teaching and learning and is committed to ensuring that all pupils achieve their full potential.
The ideal candidate will have experience of supporting and assisting pupils with physical learning and sensory difficulties and promoting pupils social and emotional development.
Our pupils benefit from staff who are confident and resilient, patient and nurturing and who want to help us to support our pupils to thrive and develop into successful young people.
Successful applicants will be able to contribute to the planning and evaluation of learning activities with teaching staff in order to plan and deliver high quality educational provision for our young people.
Forward Education Trust is committed to providing continuous professional development for all staff and encourage a supportive, motivating, and engaging working environment in all of our Schools.
All applicants must be qualified to NVQ Level 2 for Teaching Assistants or equivalent and be able to evidence this.
What we can offer you:
- Teacher Pension or Support Staff Local Government Pension – Employer Contribution
- FET HUB – information all in one place, access to a range of benefits
- paid for Health Cash Plan – employee and dependent children benefit – option to add partner
- employee Questionnaire – Consultation with staff on a range of issues and ideas
- salary sacrifice scheme – Cycle to Work Scheme
- access to the NHS approved Thrive App – to support mental health & well-being
- comprehensive induction and probation support and an ongoing performance management & appraisal system
- easy purchase scheme (salary deduction) – Smart Tech in association with Currys
- enhanced Employee Assistance Programme – free, totally confidential advice, with face-to-face consultations
- personal & professional learning & development – including FLICK online learning and other resources
- access to discounts and offers from Reward Gateway and MyPerks
- Occupational Health Service – accessible to support the needs of individual staff
- staff recognition – e-cards to celebrate success among colleagues
- Mental Health First Aiders
- policies being developed to support positive health & well-being: Family Friendly Working, Special Leave of Absence, Flexible Working, Menopause
- staff recognition – awards throughout the year, in line with Trust behaviours and values
- a commitment to develop new ideas to show we really value what you do for our children.
The Trust may review applications upon receipt and may call applicants for interview prior to the advert closing date. Therefore, you are encouraged to make an early application for this role and we reserve the right to close the vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date.
Please note that only fully completed Forward Education Trust Application forms will be accepted; we will not read accompanying Curriculum Vitae (CV) or accept them in place of an application form.
If you do not hear from the school within 14 days of the closing date, please assume that your application has not been shortlisted. The successful applicants will require an enhanced DBS check and will be subject to relevant pre-employment checks.
Closing Date: 12 January 2025, midnight
- 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.
- 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; 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.