Community Teaching Assistant Abingdon, England
Job description
Would you love a career in education that is within a fun environment and not just confined to a classroom? No prior experience needed. We will train you!
You will join us as a Community Teaching Assistant in Abingdon. You'll be joining a great team, working 32.5 hours a week, 39 weeks a year. You'll be working with learners from either 9.00 am to 3 pm or 9.30 am to 3.30 pm each day, with an additional half-hour of administration time, afterwards to record the learning.
About The role
As a Community Teaching Assistant, you'll teach some amazing people, aged between 16 and 25 with learning difficulties or autism. This will not always be confined to the classroom. The learning will be out in the community and learning at our base, depending on the needs of the young person. Our friendly team aim to deliver personalised education programmes to the learners we're working with, to teach what is important for the individual: key life skills and appropriate lessons in literacy, numeracy and ICT.
Your ability to drive unlocks the opportunities for people to do the things they really enjoy. So you must be a driver with a manual license. Don't worry! You won't be racing between appointments.
We will provide you with an comprehensive training programme, and have dedicated on-site support from your Team Coordinator.
Every day is different but one thing is the same: the achievement you will feel as you watch young people blossom into adulthood.
Come and add your chapter to our success stories!
About You
Experience isn’t always necessary. For us, underlying ability and attitude are just as important as background and experience.
We can provide all of the specialist training you need.
GCSEs (or equivalent) minimum C grade in English and Mathematics are essential.
About us
MacIntyre is a national charity which supports over 1,200 people with a learning disability and/or autism.
We were founded in 1966 by the visionary parent of a child with disabilities and have been growing steadily ever since. We celebrate and develop everyone’s unique gifts, talents and contributions.
Our No Limits division provides bespoke education programmes to children and young people for whom more traditional learning environments may not have worked.
Training and Development
At Macintyre we fully support your training and development. We know it can be daunting to start a new job, and not everyone learns the same way, so throughout your probation we will provide you with a mixture of eLearning, face-to-face training and mentoring support whilst on the job.
But it doesn't stop there - throughout your career with us you will have access to our own dedicated in house Learning and Development team, Quality Specialists and HR Teams. These teams, along with your Manager, will provide you with opportunities to learn and develop professionally as well as enabling and supporting you to achieve professional qualifications and career progression opportunities - all free of charge.
If you do not have an educational qualification, we will support you to complete the Level 3 Award in Education and Training.
Pay and Rewards
We provide a range of benefits to reward and thank our staff which includes:
- 5.6 weeks' annual leave including statutory public holidays)
- Workplace Pension scheme – MacIntyre will contribute 3% of your salary to all eligible employees
- MacIntyre Staff Savings Scheme
- Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) to support your health and wellbeing
- Health Cash Plan which provides money back on core health treatments such as: optical, dental, physiotherapy, chiropody (at reduced cost)
- MacIntyre Sick Pay (qualifying period)
- Life assurance scheme offering valuable benefits to your dependents
- MacIntyre Rewards Scheme which recognises and rewards staff
- MacIntyre Perks which offers up to 6% discount off leading retailers including Tesco, Curry/PC World, Costa and many more
- Access to the Blue Light Card which offers thousands of amazing discounts online and on the high street for emergency and social care staff.
- Enhanced DBS Certificate (cost paid by MacIntyre)
The salary range above is dependent upon whether someone has a teaching qualification, and the range is the actual term-time rate for the job.
How to apply
If this job sounds like the right fit for you, click on the Apply button on the MacIntyre website and complete our online application form
Please note: we reserve the right to close this advert early if we have received a sufficient number of applications, so don't delay, apply today.
Safer Recruitment and Diversity statement
MacIntyre safeguards and promotes the welfare of the children, young people and adults we support. Therefore we work with successful candidates to complete appropriate checks prior to joining.
MacIntyre is committed to promoting equality, encouraging diversity and embracing inclusion among our workforce. We want our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and the people we support. As part of this commitment, our accessibility toolbar allows you a number of options: read adverts in another language (including Welsh for our Services located in Wales), change the font to Open Dyslexia, change the colours, and many others. Just click the button marked “Accessibility” at the top of the screen.
COVID-19 Information
We will take every precaution to keep you and everyone involved safe during the recruitment process and your employment with MacIntyre. We encourage all our employees to follow Government advice and get vaccinated against COVID and flu.
