Job Vacancy at Cornerstone Academy Trust
KS1 Teaching Assistant
Exeter based
We are looking to appoint a KS1 Teaching Assistant who thrives on working in a busy and dynamic teaching environment to be based in one of our Exeter Schools. You will need to have a passion and commitment to wanting our young children to develop a life-long love of learning by being a positive, nurturing, and supportive role model.
You will work alongside the class teachers to support children in all areas of the curriculum and to also assist in the preparation of the learning environment, liaising with staff, maintaining pupil records and carrying out a range of administrative tasks to support the teacher. You will also be involved in supporting children at break and lunch times in setting up our play provision or helping with the family dining arrangements in the school hall.
A key part of your job will be in helping to prepare pupils for the ever-changing, digital work of the 21st Century, and so you will need to be willing to embrace the ethos of delivering a knowledge rich, purposeful, and project-based curriculum, through the meaningful use of technology.
Our moto is ‘fortune favours the brave’ and we aim to inspire children to strive to achieve highly and reach their full potential. As a teaching assistant you will have the exciting role of supporting children in learning to read, leading PE and Games sessions, going on school trips and taking responsibility for the mentoring and tutoring of individual children. We provide a full programme of extra-curricular activities, outdoor learning programmes, sporting squads and teams, dedicated art and science rooms, a library service and 1:1 digital devices for every pupil.
We operate a holiday club which is open to children in our Nurseries through to Year 6 children. The club is coordinated by one of our Lead Teaching Assistants and in the holiday times you will play a vital role in supporting in the planning, organisation and running of the amazing range of great activities that we offer our school children who attend these clubs during the school holidays.
This position is a permanent all year-round position (52 weeks) Monday to Friday. During term time the hours are 7.30am to 5.00pm (38 weeks term time, plus 1-week non-pupil days) to support with the running of our term-time wrap around care but 8.00am to 5.00pm in the school holidays. The holiday club is closed for the 2-week Christmas holiday period and in addition to the Christmas break you will be entitled to 4 weeks holiday plus Bank holidays. The full-time equivalent salary for this role is in the region of £20,500 depending on age and experience. However, the actual salary based on the hours and weeks worked will commence in the region of £25,000 per annum.
Relevant experience of working with children and qualifications are desirable.
You will benefit from a generous pension scheme, a health scheme, a cycle to work scheme and subsidised meals in our staff café with food cooked and served by our own chefs. Successful candidates will be provided with state-of-the-art IT equipment to help them fulfil their duties and we support all staff with an investment in their professional development through training and a good performance management process, where a bonus is payable to those who achieve highly.
Visits to the schools are welcome by prior arrangement.
We look forward to receiving your application and hopefully meeting you as part of the recruitment process
Please see the full Job Description for more detail.