Employer: Appcastenterprise
Salary:
Date Added: 04/12/2023
At OFG, we work smarter so you can spend more time doing what makes you happy!
How would you like to be paid for five days but only work four*?
Our colleagues’ wellbeing is at the heart of everything we do at OFG, so we’re always looking for new ways to improve everyone’s work/life balance. We’re taking part in a trial of the 4-Day Working Week, meaning that you could be working one day less a week (or equivalent).
4DWW will be rolled out within our school, when we have a full complement of staff, and within the next year – so there’s never been a more exciting time to join us #teamOFG!
- Job Title: Higher Level Teaching Assistant – HLTA with Welcome Bonus
- Hours: 40 hours per week; Monday – Friday
- Contract: Permanent, Term Time Only
- Salary: up to£26,000 per annum dependent on experience
Join us today to receive a £1000 Welcome Bonus. *£500 paid once you start employment and £500 after successful completion of final probation – there has never been a better time to join us’* T&Cs apply! *
Become a Higher Level Teaching Assistant at Dibden Park School part of Acorn Education and Care and start working towards yours.
About our school
Dibden Park School is a brand-new school based in Southampton that opened in September 2023. Dibden Park School can place 60 students and caters to students with social and emotional mental health and other complex needs. This is an exciting opportunity to grow and develop with a new staff team in a newly established independent special school.
We are part of Acorn Education and Care and can promise you plenty of challenges and a rich variety of opportunities to develop your career.
We provide Education and Care across a number of schools and pupils who live in our accommodations nationally. Our specialist SEN provision, coupled with our expertise within residential care means we offer thousands of vulnerable young people across the UK a holistic, wraparound care, residential and education service, empowering them with everything they need to flourish.
As part of Outcomes First Group, we are leading our sector in setting and delivering new approaches that provide measurable outcomes for those in our care.
About the role
Our HLTA’s will be responsible, under the direction of the teacher or school leaders to teach specialist parts of the curriculum to individual pupils, small groups or whole classes. To support access to learning for pupils and to provide general support to the teacher or school leaders with regard to the management of pupils in and out of the learning environment.
Experience
- Able to engage appropriately with pupils, adults and develop rapport
- Able to recognise conflict and challenging behaviours with pupils and willing to address behaviours once trained
- Able to engage in a variety of teaching activities to support the teacher and to deliver teaching and learning in your specialist subject
- Already have their HLTA qualification or a willingness to undertake it
- Previous experience working as a Teaching Assistant
- Good numeracy/literacy skills
Why join Acorn Education and Care?
Benefits
Your health and wellbeing are important to us, so you’ll get an exceptional reward package including:
- Life Assurance
- Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions
- “Your Wellbeing Matters” – access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks
And a market-leading benefit offering through our Flexible Benefits Platform, Vista, enables you to choose the package that’s right for you, including:
- A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
- 100’s of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
- Cycle to Work Schemes
- Electric Car Purchase Scheme
- Critical illness cover
And that’s not all, we place the outcomes of the pupils and vulnerable young adults in our services at the heart of everything we do, so you’ll wake every day in the knowledge that your role will have a significant positive impact on the lives of others.
We are committed to the safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils and young people. All applicants will be subject to social media checks and successful applicants to a fully enhanced DBS.
*You’ll work 80% of your contractual hours for 100% of your pay, giving you more time to do the things that make you happy.
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Application Deadline: 21/01/2024
Contract Type: Permanent
Submitted Applications: 0