Teaching Assistant

**Academy**:Wayland Academy

**Category**:Teaching

**Start Date**:November 2024

**Closing Date**:Mon, Sep 30, 2024

**Job Weeks**:Term-time plus one week

**Hours**:28 hours per week

**Type**:Permanent, Part Time

**Job Reference**:SEP20240187

**Salary: Support Staff Pay Scale D: £15,553 to £15,813 pro-rata per annum (Actual) (£23,500 - £23,893 full time/full year equivalent)**

**Part Time: 28 hours per week over 5 days**

**Working Weeks: Term Time plus 1 week (39 weeks)**

We have an exciting opportunity for a Teaching Assistant to join our committed and hardworking team at Wayland Academy, supporting our students to achieve their full potential.

You will be an enthusiastic and inspiring practitioner with recent experience of working in a secondary education setting. You will be passionate about raising achievement through motivating and inspiring students, and keen to contribute to the school’s visions and values. You will be motivated to enable access to learning for pupils, including specialised support for those with special education needs.

You will be responsible for supporting effective pastoral care to support pupils' social and emotional progress as well as their learning.

**The main responsibility of this role will be**:
To work under the instruction/guidance of teaching/senior staff.

To work within the overall ethos of the Academy.

To undertake care and learning programmes and activities to support individuals or groups of pupils, including more specialised support for those with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) or EAL (English as an Additional Language).

To enable access to learning for pupils and assist the teacher in the management of pupils and the classroom.

Good numeracy/literacy skills

Experience of working with or caring for children of relevant age

Ability to use ICT effectively to support learning

Ability to evaluate learning needs and actively seek learning opportunities

Ability to relate well to children and adults

Basic understanding of child development and learning

Wayland Academy is an oversubscribed and highly performing secondary school in the heart of Norfolk with a positive atmosphere and low staff turnover. In 2022 62% of students achieved grades 9-5 in English and mathematics and achieved a Progress 8 score of +0.56, positioning the school as one of the highest performing secondary schools in Norfolk and Suffolk. Staff at Wayland Academy have a belief in every student's entitlement to the highest quality of education and ability to achieve and learn. Our curriculum vision reflects the role of the Academy in the community, promotes understanding and enrichment and values our students’ reading, vocabulary and fluency in speech and written word. We take the learning and pastoral care of our students very seriously to give them confidence in the world.

We are part of the Inspiration Trust, twice ranked as the country’s top family of comprehensive schools for pupil progress, and strongly believe in the importance of giving the widest educational opportunities to all young people, regardless of their background. We have strong networks across the Trust, with opportunities to work with a diverse range of schools and partners. We are committed to offering excellent professional and learning opportunities for our staff, with a busy programme of continuing professional development courses delivered by some of the country’s best educational thinkers and practitioners.

The Inspiration Trust is a Multi Academy Trust, committed to delivering the very best educational experience for the young people of Norfolk and Suffolk, across 17 schools. We are ambitious for our schools and communities and want to create Britain’s highest performing federation of 3-19 schools and transform education in the East. Inspiration Trust specialises in transforming schools in disadvantaged areas and taking academies from failing to outstanding.

For information on what it is like to live and work in Watton, click here. The most recent Ofsted inspection in July 2023 gave Wayland Academy an overall grade of ‘Good'. “School and Trust leaders form a strong and cohesive team which has driven, and continues to secure, school improvement.”

When you join Inspiration Trust's thriving network of talented teachers, leaders and support staff, you join an organisation that supports you to be the best you can be. The Trust offers a varied professional development programme for employees.

We are committed to offering excellent professional opportunities for our staff, through careful support and personalised CPD. We offer a structured and specific induction programme.

**The Trust also offers**:
Generous holiday entitlement

Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) with generous employer contributions

Employee Assistance Programme which provides a fully confidential service which includes 24/7 free telephone support and access to well-being information, advice and g