Teaching Assistant

**Job details**:

- Job reference
- REQ00000015736
- Date posted
- 25/09/2023
- Application closing date
- 10/02/2025
- Location
- WHITEHAVEN
- Salary
- £13.05 - £14.83 per hour
- Package
- Blank
- Contractual hours
- 0
- Basis
- Part time

**Teaching Assistant / Senior Teaching Assistant - Copeland CMB635e**:

- Job description

**Hourly rate**:Teaching Assistant £13.05

Senior Teaching Assistant £14.36 - £14.83

**Hours**:various

**Location**:within 15 miles of home

**Contract**:_Flexible or Fixed term contracts inline with Children’s support packages_

Are you a newly qualified teaching assistant looking for work? Are you working in a school where your contract is coming to an end?

**About us**

Cumberland Council is an ambitious and forward-thinking authority dedicated to shaping a better future for our communities. We are passionate about creating a vibrant future by addressing inequalities, creating thriving economies that work for our residents and protecting our environment.

At the core of our vision is a commitment to our people, with health and well-being being integral to everything we do, underscoring every initiative and ensuring we provide unparalleled support for all.

We can’t do it without you Come and embark on the journey to a vibrant future with us, where the work you do will make a real impact. Together, let's shape a community that's as dynamic and inclusive as our landscape. Be a part of the transformation

WeAreCumberland #Childrenandfamilies

**About this opportunity**
- To join Cumberland Council’s reputable Learning Support Service (LSS)
- To provide valuable support to schools to enable each child to thrive
- To help children with Educational Health Care Plans to develop their learning and really make a difference
- To help Cumberland Council ensure the Health and Wellbeing of our young people

**Key responsibilities**
- Deliver a range of learning/skills and/or personal/practical suppo
- Meet needs and/or wellbeing for individuals and/or groups
- Supervise and provide particular support for pupils, including those with special needs, ensuring their safety and access to learning activities
- Assist with the development and implementation of Individual Education/Behaviour Plans and Personal Care programmes
- Establish constructive relationships with pupils and interact with them according to individual needs
- Promote the inclusion and acceptance for all pupils
- Encourage pupils to interact with others and engage in activities led by the teacher
- Set challenging and demanding expectations and promote self-esteem and independence
- Provide feedback to pupils in relation to progress and achievement under guidance of the teacher

**Who we’re looking for**
- Recent, proven experience of working with or caring for children of a relevant age in an educational/classroom setting (this may have been on placement for your qualification if recently attained)
- Awareness of practices and procedures within education relating to the welfare, safety, and education of children
- General understanding of Early Years Foundation Stage/National Curriculum and other basic learning programmes and strategies
- Basic understanding of child development and learning
- Desirable to have knowledge of other services to young people
- Ability to self-evaluate learning needs and actively seek learning opportunities
- Desirable to have effective use of ICT to support learning, and be able to use basic technology (computer, video, photocopier)
- Ability to relate well to children and adults
- Able to work constructively as part of a team
- Understanding classroom roles and responsibilities and own position within these
- Articulate essential soft skills needed for the role (eg communication, adaptability, collaboration)
- Promote any development opportunities within the team/service

Fundamentally, we are seeking individuals who embody our organisation's core values: ambitious, collaborative, compassionate, empowering, and innovative. We believe in the power of these values to drive positive change and shape a better future for our communities. Your commitment to these principles will be instrumental in delivering services that are vital to the well-being and prosperity of our residents.

**Please click here to view the Teaching Assistant** **Post Specification**

**Please click here to view the Senior Teaching Assistant** **Post Specification**

**If this sounds like you, then please get in touch**

**What we offer**
- Competitive rates of pay with only two pay points and annual pay increase*
- Opportunity to join the generous Local Government Pension Scheme with defined benefit plans securing your future
- Boost your pension with Shared Cost Additional Voluntary Contributions (facilitated by AVC Wise)
- Money off your local gym including Better, Newfield Health, The Gym Group and Lifestyle Fitness
- In house staff support networks
- 20% off a Vodafone mobile phone contract for you and up to 5 family an