Early Years Teaching Assistant

Hours: 11 hours Contract: Temporary until August 2025

Salary: Grade C, FTE £23,500, Actual Salary £6,009

Start Date: January 2025

We are seeking to appoint a dedicated and enthusiastic early years teaching assistant to start in January 2025. This post is likely to be placed in Nursery. The successful candidate will have school-based experience, together with excellent communication skills.

They will also:

• be able to show initiative
• be prepared to deliver intervention programmes for individual children or small groups
• demonstrate the ability to develop exemplary professional, creative and personal qualities expected of teaching assistants
• have the ability to maintain confidentiality

Connect Academy Trust

Connect is a family of 8 large, successful, and happy primary schools. The Trust now educates over 3500 children with 550 staff, in both Plymouth and Torbay. Connect was formed in 2016 and aims to provide a firm foundation for developing teachers and leaders to secure the best learning opportunities for all children. It operates a dynamic, values-based system where each school is a giver and receiver of support. Connect is an inclusive Trust and 3 of our schools have specialist support centres, for deaf children, those with an ASC diagnosis and for those with a developmental language disorder.

We can offer you:

• A highly supportive school invested in your growth and professional development.
• A Trust culture that promotes diversity, equality and social justice.
• A supportive approach for all staff and an innovative approach to appraisal.
• Comprehensive induction and wide-ranging opportunities for professional development.
• An opportunity to be part of a forward focussed and growing Trust, author of the UK’s first ocean conservation curriculum with 8 European Blue Schools and national winner of the Community Impact of the year Trust award 2023!

Closing Date: Friday 15th November 2024 at 9am

Please email admin@leigham-primary.plymouth.sch.uk to request an application form or visit https://www.connectacademytrust.co.uk/vacancies

Connect is fully committed to equal opportunities, safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An on-line check of publicly available information will be completed to assess the successful candidate’s suitability to work with children