Sen Classroom Assistant

**St Martins School**
Derby

£22,367 - £22,737 per year

New

**Salary**:

Grade 2 SCP 8-10, Full Time Equivalent Salary - £22,367-£22,737 (pay award pending)

**Job type**:

Full Time, Fixed Term
2 October 2024

**Job overview**:
St Martins School are looking to recruit a Classroom Assistant to join our skilled, committed and innovative team. Applicants will support Teaching staff with the provision and resourcing of high quality learning as well as contribute to other areas of school life. This is an exciting opportunity to join the Classroom Support team in our outstanding and innovative school which is a proud member of the Shaw Education Trust.
- Have experience of working with young people
- Want to support students who have Special Educational Needs
- Be inspired to work towards Shaping Successful Futures for all students
We look forward to meeting you.

St Martins School and Horizons 6th Form is an 11-19 Special School in Derby, with a mixed student profile of children and young people with a range of learning difficulties and additional complex needs. St Martins shares a site with Noel-Baker Academy in Alvaston, whilst Horizons 6th Form is based in Derby city centre. We received our third consecutive 'Outstanding' OFSTED in June 2017 and we continue to aspire to the highest standards for students and our staff teams.

**Shaw Education Trust** are a thriving mix of diverse and growing schools including Primary, Secondary and Special Schools all working together to improve the lives of young people in our communities. We are sponsored by Shaw Trust a charity organisation that focuses on transforming lives. We’re a growing group of dynamically awesome academies providing education to children of all ages and abilities. Staff across our team of schools are dedicated to ensuring that every child has the opportunity to be successful, whatever their starting point in life.

**Our Special settings** cater for children and young people with a wide range of Special Educational Needs from children with profound medical needs and life limiting conditions, those with severe, moderate and sensory needs through to young people with social emotional and mental health needs that require support and understanding to help them to navigate their world.

Whether you are a teacher, a teaching assistant, a healthcare professional or work in facilities, admin or operations all our Special Schools offer you the opportunity to work within an establishment that has a ‘family’ feel that puts the children, young people and their families at the heart of what they do.

All the pupils within our Special Schools have an individualised education and are educated in small classes and groups with enhanced support to ensure that all their needs are met.

**Please visit our St Martins career site for more information**:

**Shaw Education Trust offer the following employee benefits with your Teaching or Support Staff employment**:

- An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (Support Staff) / Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff)
- ** Support Staff only** based on working **full time, all year** - Generous holiday entitlement from your first day of employment (**37 days holiday** **rising to 39 days** after 5 years’ service including Bank Holidays)****:

- Electric Car Scheme: Environmentally friendly vehicles with our electric car scheme.
- Access to Medicash Health & Wellbeing Plan: Enjoy health services designed to support your well-being.
- Free DiscountForTeachers Scheme for all staff (Support and Teaching), Exclusive discounts to save money with a wide selection of discounts and exclusive offers from hundreds of the biggest brands.
- Free Eye Tests
- Cycle to work scheme
- Access to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help you **grow, contribute** and **flourish** in your role and in the Trust.

We know **our people** are the key to our success and so we’re committed to ensuring the **employment experience** at **Shaw Education Trust** is a **rewarding **one.

**Colleagues within the Trust benefit from**: Access to a full range of courses both in-house and professionally accredited. These courses include all of the National Professional Qualifications - NPQH, NPQSL, NPQEYL, NPQLL, NPQLT, NPQLTD, NPQLBC are all delivered by the Shaw Education Trust as a delivery partner for Ambition Institute. In addition, we provide access to the NPQEL for Executive Leaders.
- Guidance from former HMIs and serving Ofsted Inspectors within the Trust.
- Access to the Trust’s Institute of Education and SCITT.
- Opportunities to work with different schools within the Trust as a Professional Advocate.
- Participating in peer reviews.
- Access to a suite of online courses.
- Placement projects within our family of schools.

**St Martins **is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment, click here to review Safeguarding