Teaching Assistant Level 1

**Salary**:
Grade 2

**Job type**:
Full Time, Permanent

**Start date**:
Spring 2025

12 January 2025

**Job overview**:
We currently have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and conscientious Teaching Assistant Level 1 to join our team at Chorlton High School.

**This is a Grade 2, permanent, part-time post working 30 hours per week, term time only plus 5 INSET days. The starting pro-rata salary is £17,714 and the full time equivalent is £24,027.**

**Main purpose of the job**:
To support access to learning and provide general support for the school in the management of pupils and resources, as directed by senior staff.

To work collaboratively with all staff and parents in order to support pupil wellbeing and to promote the five outcomes of Every Child Matters.

**Key relationships**:
All members of staff (Teaching, Safeguarding team, Pastoral team, SENCO, SLT), students, governors, and parents.

**Working for us**

Great schools thrive because of the great people in them.

We pride ourselves in being a great place to work, providing a supportive culture with opportunities to grow and develop your career, achieve a healthy work life balance and to be recognised for the great work you do. All schools in the Trust have signed up to the education staff wellbeing charter as a declaration of support to the wellbeing and mental health of everyone that works at Prospere Learning Trust.

Prospere Learning Trust offers a variety of employee benefits, including;
- A commitment to continuous professional development for all colleagues
- Membership of Bupa Level 1 Health Plan which allows employees to claim money back for a range of health expenses such as prescriptions and dental treatments
- Access to counselling, financial, legal and personal advice provided through either our free Bupa or Health Assured Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) including confidential 24-hour support
- Access to Cyclescheme
- Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) contributions and Teacher Pension Scheme (TPS) contributions
- We’re **happy to talk flexible working** where possible to help employees achieve a healthy work life balance.

**_ Safeguarding Children_**
- All schools within the Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment._

**_ Equality Statement_**

**About**Chorlton High School**:
**Chorlton High School**
- Nell Lane, Chorlton-cum-hardy, Manchester
- Lancashire
- M21 7SL
- United Kingdom

+44 161 882 1150

**Chorlton High School**:Successful, Creative, Happy**:
Chorlton High School is a diverse and innovative Academy, accelerating on its journey to provide a truly outstanding education. We are a mixed, multi-cultural and multi-faith community with strong, effective links to local Primary Schools, Sixth Form providers, Further Education colleges and local businesses.

Our students, aged 11-16, flourish as they are taken on an exciting learning journey underpinned by academic rigour and with a distinctive creative flair We have a resolute focus on inspiring, nurturing and supporting all students to ensure that at every age and for every ability they have an excellent foundation for their future success.

Chorlton High School has a talented and diligent team of staff who ensure that creativity, happiness and success are central to every student’s daily experience, built on and driven by our core values, we are committed to enabling all our students to become:
**SUCCESSFUL**learners who go further faster and have the foundations for lifelong success.

**CREATIVE** learners who are imaginative risk takers and are prepared to lead the future.

**HAPPY** learners who are recognised and rewarded so their confidence comes from within.

Chorlton High School is rapidly gaining recognition as a centre of educational excellence both locally and nationally. Excellent teaching and learning is at the heart of all that we do. Ambitious, imaginative and cutting-edge practice provides exemplary learning opportunities. Our awards and accolades are a testimony to this, including being a finalist for TES School of the Year, alongside only eight other schools in Great Britain.

Our Ofsted reports (2011, 2016, 2021) highlight many ‘Outstanding’ features along with the school’s resolute focus on nurturing, supporting and inspiring all of its students.

‘Pupils enjoy coming to school because it is a caring and supportive environment where they flourish.’

‘Leaders and teachers collaborate across the Prospere Learning Trust to bring about purposeful, evidence-based change.' _Ofsted 2021_

**Prospere Learning Trust