Teaching Assistant with Admin Support

The role: Teaching Assistant & Admin Support Grade & salary: Grade 2: £21,567 - £22,610 actual salary per annum Working pattern: 37 hours per week, 39 weeks per year Contract term: Permanent The School: Ashfield School is renowned for high standards of teaching, behaviour and academic achievement. One of the largest schools in England (2700 on role), staff work together each day to support, inspire and challenge students to give their best in our safe, happy and ambitious working environment. Ashfield school enjoys an incredibly positive culture across the school. Continual focus on developing a happy and ambitious culture has enabled us to recruit, develop and retain the very best people. Student behaviour is excellent, staff well-being surveys evidence that morale is very high with teachers treated as respected professionals and given the autonomy to teach the well planned and high-quality curriculum in their own style. Ashfield School is a great place to work and, as part of the DFE school re-building project, will move into brand new buildings over the next few years. We are located close to the A38 and M1 and there is a large free staff car park. Facilities across the large school campus are excellent with numerous staff social and workspaces, staff specific catering and sporting facilities, including a fitness suite and swimming pool. The role: Ashfield School are looking to appoint a Teaching Assistant and Admin Support to join their hard working and highly effective inclusion team. This role will provide administrative and organisational support to the school’s SENDCOs as well as playing an integral part in ensuring student meet targets and progress. The person: The successful candidate with have experience of working with children and young people, and must have strong administrative skills. The post holder will need to have an understanding of how children learn and have the ability to manage difficult behaviours. In this role you will need to have excellent communication skills, and be able to communicate effectively with colleagues, students and families. Why join us? There are many reasons to choose The Two Counties Trust as a great place to start or continue your career. We recognise the importance of a happy, healthy, rewarded and well-motivated workforce and as such we have developed our HR strategy to invest in our employees. We have removed appraisal and appraisal related pay progression, changing the focus from validation to professional growth and enabling all our employees to get better all the time. We are fully committed to supporting your career and professional growth through a range of routes both within schools and across the Trust and we offer extensive professional learning opportunities for all employees. We offer: Highly competitive pay and pay progression opportunities. We do not operate appraisal or appraisal related pay progression. All employees participate in ou