Teaching Assistant

Teaching Assistant Grade and Salary: Grade 2: £21,567 - £22,610 actual salary per annum pro rata (£25,185 - £26,403 FTE) Working pattern: 37 hours per week / 39 weeks per year Contract term: Permanent The School: Allestree Woodlands School offers a broad curriculum at all key stages and has a thriving Sixth Form. We pride ourselves on the warm and friendly atmosphere of our school. We strive for the best achievements for our students and passionately believe that every young person deserves the chance to be successful. The role: An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full time Teaching Assistant to join a committed team at Allestree Woodlands School. The ideal candidates will be enthusiastic, hard-working and are passionate about supporting young people achieve their best. The successful candidates will work in partnership with teachers to support learning in line with the national curriculum, codes of practice, policies and procedures. The person: Patience will be key to this role as you will be supporting students in a specific curriculum area or support students with varying degrees of learning, behavioural, communication, social, sensory or physical difficulties. You will play an integral part in ensuring students with any degree of SEND meet targets and progress in line with students not on the SEND register. 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 opportuni