Teaching Assistant Level 2

Salford

Term Time

£21,668 - £22,367

Permanent

Expires 15/05/2025

**About the Role**:
**Job Title**:Level 2 Teaching Assistant (Communication and Interaction Needs)

**About us**

At St Patrick’s, it is our mission to ensure that children experience a truly great Catholic education that enables them to flourish academically and shine personally, preparing them for a happy and successful adult life. We are committed to helping every child become the very best version of themselves.

Our school motto is ‘amazing things happen here’ and you only have to spend five minutes in our school to realise that this is absolutely true. We have a strong and dedicated team of professionals who challenge and support students to achieve amazing things and they work hard to create an environment, built on mutual respect, whereby students rise to the challenges set for them. Our strength comes from our drive for excellence in all that we do and our consistent and persistent approach.

We are committed to providing an inclusive workplace where staff feel valued and trusted, and where collaborative working is at the heart of everything we do. We also recognise the importance of supporting our staff to continuously develop in order for them to achieve their own professional career goals.

If you meet the role criteria, are an excellent practitioner and believe that a great education can transform a child’s life and future, we would love to hear from you

Mrs Alison Byrne

Headteacher

**Why St Patrick’s?**

**Our People Values**

Our core people values are at the heart of every decision that we make as an employer. Our aims are:

- To fulfil our Catholic mission, to ensure our children and staff** live life to the full.**:

- To **attract, recruit, develop and retain**high performing staff, to ensure that we allow pupils to become the best version of themselves.
- To provide a workplace where staff feel **valued and trusted**.
- To develop and support the growth of **leadership and management.**:

- To promote a culture focused on **diversity, inclusivity and wellbeing** by creating a healthy work environment to enable staff to perform at their best.
- To provide **strong and consistent HR services** for all staff, across all school areas.
- To serve the wider education system and **provide opportunities** for our staff to lead across other schools.

**Our Benefits**

We have a range of employee benefits available to all our staff. We are always looking at ways in which we can improve our offering to ensure the benefits are valued by our staff.

CPD

We have a strong focus on CDP for our employees, ensuring that learning and development opportunities are offered throughout the academic year. This includes exciting career opportunities to work across other schools.

Pension

An employee earning more than £10,000 and who is more than 22 years of age will automatically be enrolled into one of our workplace pension schemes with excellent employer contributions.

Family Leave

Enhanced family leave is available to support our staff with family commitments and emergencies.

Flexible working

Where possible, we support staff with the ability to work flexibly and recognise the need to work/life balance.

Subsidised Gym Membership

Via our payroll provider, Salford City Council, we are able to offer discount on Salford Council run leisure facilities.

Wellbeing strategy

We are focused on bringing staff wellbeing to the forefront of our people agenda. With an annual wellbeing calendar place, we run events throughout the year to celebrate staff and our school.

We also have an independent Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational health provider in place to support staff with any wellbeing needs.

We are always looking for ways to improve our offering and staff feedback is at the heart of this.

The Governors of St Patrick’s RC High School are looking to appoint an excellent Level 2 Teaching Assistant, who is committed to ensuring our school continues to offer an inclusive environment for all pupils.

Duties will include providing support to teachers, working with pupils on an individual and small group basis to help with their learning. Lesson cover may also be required after training in this area.
- Have a love for education and learning.
- Feel passionately about inclusion for all.
- Have experience/a background in supporting people with communication and interaction needs.
- Have high regard for their learning environment and resources.
- Have the desire to inspire, engage and enthuse students.
- Engage with professional development opportunities, training sessions and CPD.

Interviews: w/c 19th May 2025.

**Want to know more about Salford?**

As an authority we are dedicated to improving the lives of our residents, and as an employer we are passionate about helping individuals to thrive in their work. We are committed to developing a diverse and inclusive culture and are proud of our professional accreditations which champi