Teaching Assistant

**Reference number**

BUC13164

**Contract type**

Permanent

**Working hours**

Full Time

**Level of DBS check required**

Enhanced with Barred List

**Date posted**

2 Mar 2025, 11 p.m.

**Application deadline**

24 Mar 2025

**Overview**:
**Starting date**:April 2025- (Pending satisfactory completion of all pre-employment checks)

**Term time only**:Yes

**Salary Type**:Bucks pay

**Salary details**:Bucks Pay Range 1B to 2 (£23,297-£24,879 FTE) Actual salary 32.5 hours (approx.) £17,354 - £18,533 pro rata Based on 39 weeks per year (plus INSET training days)

**Contract type**:Permanent

**Hours**:Full time: 32 hours 30 minutes per week (Monday to Friday 8:30am - 3:30pm)

**Closing date**:24/03/2025 00:00

**About us**:
Kingsbrook View opened in September 2021, with just 3 classes (90 pupils), and was built to serve the primary education needs of the new Kingsbrook residential development. We currently have 11 classes, up to Year 5, totalling 330 pupils. We will continue to grow until we reach our final capacity of 472 places, up to the end of KS2.

At Kingsbrook View Primary Academy we are committed to delivering inspirational learning opportunities that are engaging, purposeful and challenging as everyone has the potential to achieve and excel. We have a passion for learning and we value the power of learning in securing a successful future. Our pupils take ownership of their learning to become highly aspirational and be able to make positive contributions to life in modern Britain.

**Kingsbrook View Primary Academy**:

- Has a strong set of values, modelled and followed by all
- Provides an excellent primary education for all children attending
- Enables all children to be highly aspirational and reach their potential
- Has high expectations of all
- Develops resilience, independence and self-regulation
- Provides a broad, rich, engaging and challenging curriculum
- Is an active and prominent establishment within the local community
- Provides a secure and happy environment where everybody’s safety and wellbeing matters: children, parents and staff.
- Meets the individual needs of children and their families through a proven model of outstanding teaching and learning
- Values the contribution outdoor learning makes to a stimulating curriculum as well as wellbeing
- Celebrates diversity through an inclusive culture based on equality and respect
- Is a member of the Inspiring Futures Partnership Trust, drawing on the expertise and capacity of other Trust members to deliver outstanding provision

Our values permeate all that we do and we expect all children, parents, staff, Trustees and visitors to live and breathe these values. These values underpin our curriculum as they are central to being successful individuals, who make a valued contribution as citizens in the modern world.
- Aspiration: aiming high, having high expectations and striving for the best
- Resilience: responding to challenge, overcoming difficulty and learning from mistakes by having a growth mindset
- Respect: valuing everyone’s contributions and demonstrating respect for ourselves and others
- Integrity: being open and honest, showing commitment to what is right and being proud of who we are.

**Website**:
**About the role**:
**Main responsibilities**:
he post-holder will be expected to support whole class learning, groups of children or individual children having specific or particular needs, as directed. The post-holder will share in the care and wellbeing of pupils throughout the academy. Teaching Assistants will be fully informed about the needs of groups and individuals’ they are supporting and where working with named children the outcomes of their Educational Healthcare Plan and those targets set by external professionals. Teaching assistants will work under the direction of class teachers and the Head of Academy to support and deliver planned learning interventions.

This Job Description describes in general terms the normal duties which the post-holder will be expected to undertake. However, the job or duties described may vary or be amended from time to time without changing the level of responsibility associated with the post.

**The post-holder will be expected to carry out the following
- please also refer to the attached recruitment pack**:

- Safeguarding
- Teaching and learning
- Working collaboratively
- Administrative assistance
- Standards and quality assurance
- Behaviour and classroom management
- Health and welfare of children
- Break and lunchtime duties

**About you**:
**Does this sound like you?**
- You are child-centred and put children’s best interests at the heart of all you do
- You understand the needs of the children you are supporting and respond accordingly
- You are able to engage children, allowing them to make progress
- You can demonstrate suitable experience and/or qualifications for working in a school context
- You are flexible, adaptable and able to work on your own initiative
- You have en