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Overview

Cressex Community School is currently looking for a Teaching Assistant to start as soon as possible to join our committed team to help support pupils in class and assist with education programmes.

Salary Type: Bucks pay

Salary details: Bucks Pay Range 2 - pro-rata £21,879

Contract type: Permanent

Hours: 35 hours per week, 39 weeks per year (term time plus 5 training days). Part time hours considered for exceptional candidates

Closing date: 05/06/2023 08:00

Interviews to be held: Shortly thereafter

About us

At The Cressex Community School, we firmly believe that high achievement for each and every student is our shared responsibility. As a team of staff, we aim to ensure that everyone in the school is able to achieve to her or his full potential and, we hope, to discover new skills and talents too.

www.cressex.org

About the role

We are seeking to appoint a Teaching Assistant who is enthusiastic and motivated.

Please see the attached job description for further details.

About you

Candidates are required to have good literacy and numeracy skills.

For further details, please see the attached person specification.

Other information

Visits to the school are warmly welcome. To arrange a visit or to find out more about the role, please contact our school office on 01494 437729.

Please send completed application forms to the email address - [email protected]

Please note that we reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so please be advised to submit your application as early as possible.

We take our responsibilities in relation to child protection very seriously. Access to the site is closely monitored. All adults who come into contact with young people have been appropriately checked. Our recruitment procedures follow “safer recruitment” guidelines. All staff receive regular training and updates on their obligations with regard to child protection and safeguarding. This includes training in areas such as misuse of the internet and social media, child sexual exploitation and the government’s “Prevent” strategy, aimed at stopping young people falling prey to radicalisation.

The school works closely with partner agencies such as Barnado’s, the Police and the Local Authority to ensure young people are kept safe.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:

• All unspent convictions and conditional cautions
• All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020).

For further information on filtering please refer to Nacro guidance and the guidance issued by the Ministry of Justice (see, in particular, the section titled ‘Exceptions Order’).

It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. All shortlisted applicants will be required to complete self-disclosure form and return prior to interview.