Welsh Teaching Assistant

Role: Teaching Assistant

Area: Caerphilly

Pay: GBP10 per hour - PAYE

Sector: Primary

Start date: September 2020

Essential: Communicate through the medium of welsh

Desirable: Experience in an education or care setting

Teaching Personnel are recruiting for teaching assistants to work in a welsh medium primary school in Caerphilly. We have a preferred supplier agreement with the school which means they use Teaching Personnel for all of their cover, whether it’s course cover; short term or long term sickness; maternity cover; additional support and intervention in class.

September and COVID-19

The Welsh Medium Primary School in Caerphilly are predicting that they will need extra staff in the new academic year to support the guidelines provided by the Welsh Assembly Government. The school are preparing and planning for teaching to take place in ‘bubbles’ whereby there will be a small ratio of pupils to every teacher and assistant, therefore a greater need for extra staff. Of utmost importance for the school is the management of risks related to COVID-19. Consequently, the school in question have highlighted the importance of having consistent additional staff as ideally, they would like to limit the amount of ‘new faces’ appearing on an ad-hoc basis, therefore the opportunity for a long term placement is promising.    

The school have a consistent behaviour policy that all staff must adhere to, however, they welcome new techniques and strategies, so please be confident using your own as well. The school has a Special Education Needs Resource Base and has a high number of pupils with SEN integrated into the mainstream classes. Subsequently, knowledge of additional needs such as autism, ADHD and social and emotional behavioural difficulties is very desirable.

Candidate health, wellbeing and safety

Pre-screening will be in place before any candidate is placed into a booking. Self certification of coronavirus status will be required weekly in order to ensure that all candidates are not imposing risk upon themselves or others. If any candidate is found to have contracted the virus, is displaying symptoms (no matter how mild) or have been in contact with someone infected with COVID 19, you will be advised to stay at home and not leave their house for at least 7 days from when the symptoms started (if they live alone), or 14 days (if they live with someone who has symptoms).

Teaching Personnel have issued government guidance on working in education settings and CPD resources for managing the return to work process for all candidates. We will continue to monitor the situation and guidance given and will update candidates as and when any advice changes.

Application

To apply for teaching work in this great school in Caerphilly, please attach an updated CV to your application with a short message. To get you fully vetted and ready for work we will need a 6 year career history, recent references, a current DBS, proof of Education Workforce Council registration (we can help with DBS and EWC) and proof of right to work in the country (passport or birth certificate).

All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role. Please see teachingpersonnel.com/faqs 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.

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