Teaching Assistant

Are you a Teaching Assistant looking for a new and rewarding role in education?

Are you looking to develop your skills and build relationships with young people?

One of our partnership schools in South Manchester are looking for Teaching Assistants to join their team!

The school based in South Manchester supports students from the age of 5-18 with a variety of needs such as challenging behaviour, Anxiety, and disengagement from education.

The school offers smaller class sizes as well as a variety of vocational courses to suit the needs of all the students.

The ideal Teaching Assistant will support students and staff with the student’s social and emotional needs as well as building relationships with both students and staff.

The ideal Teaching Assistant will have:

• Experience of working with children and young adults with additional needs and behavioural issues.
• Have a calm and patient manner in difficult situations.
• Experience working within a school or care setting.

As part of safer recruitment guidelines, all candidates will be subject to standard vetting checks. Including:

• Two previous employment references that cover the last 2 years
• An Enhanced DBS on the update service- this can be applied for through Teaching Personnel
• If you have lived outside of the UK for 6 months or more in the last 5 years, you will be required to present an overseas criminal check (police check)

We are unable to accept applications from candidates outside of the UK. If you do not have a permanent UK address, please do not apply for this role.

All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role. Please see the FAQ’s on the Teaching Personnel website for details.
All pay rates quoted will be inclusive of 12.07% statutory holiday pay. This advert is for a temporary position. In some cases, the option to make this role permanent may become available at a later date.
Teaching Personnel is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We undertake safeguarding checks on all workers in accordance with DfE statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ this may also include an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted applicants.
We offer all our registered candidates FREE child protection and prevent duty training. All candidates must undertake or have undertaken a valid enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Full assistance provided.
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