Teaching Assistant

Teaching Assistant – temporary, fixed term, until 31st August 2025 due to pupil numbers and children with EHCPs

30 hours per week, Mon-Fri, term-time only

We are looking for a passionate and creative teaching assistant to join our happy and thriving staff team as soon as possible.

We offer: 
•    Well-motivated, well-behaved children who have a thirst for knowledge. 
•    A friendly and hard-working staff team who support each other. 
•    A supportive Governing Body and Headteacher, committed to reducing workload to enable everyone to focus fully on delivering wonderful opportunities for children. 
•    A commitment to your professional development. 
•    A focus on the happiness of every child and every member of staff. 
•    A well-resourced, forward-looking school where staff are given the professional freedom to innovate with teaching and learning. 
•    An ethos which puts the children at the very heart of all our decisions. 
 
We are looking for:
•    Someone with high expectations of themselves and the children they teach. 
•    Someone with the ability to motivate, inspire and challenge children. 
•    Someone who will go the extra-mile for our children and our school. 
•    Someone who is a great team player, cares about children and has a great sense of humour.

The hours of work are 30 hours per week. This would involve supporting children with additional needs in the classroom and through 1-1 work and group interventions. We’d also like the successful applicant to support lunchtimes for thirty minutes each day. We would particularly welcome applications from people with enthusiasm, skills and experience in one or more of the following areas: 
•    Trauma informed practice
•    Supporting children with autism
 
If you love working with children and have the skills and enthusiasm to contribute to our school’s future success, then we’d welcome an application from you. 
 
We are committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all children and we expect all staff to uphold this commitment. Appointments will be subject to satisfactory checks with the Disclosure and Barring Service and suitable references. 
 
Further information and an application pack is available on our website: www.holmeschool.cumbria.sch.uk

Please contact Karen in the school office to arrange a visit to our school 01524 781205 / admin@holmeschool.cumbria.sch.uk

The closing dates for applications is Thursday 14th November 2024  at noon. 
Interviews will be held on Tuesday 19th November. 2024