Teaching Assistant and Cover support (19993)

Do you have a passion for working with young people? Would you like to support young people to achieve better outcomes and a positive future? Barnardo's Employment, Training and Skills Yorkshire have a fantastic opportunity for a proactive and enthusiastic teaching assistant to join our ETS team and help us continue to provide first class support to our busy teams and young people. About ETS Yorkshire Barnardo's Employment, Training and Skills Yorkshire is a Work Based Learning Provider based in Bradford. From this service we provide learning and skills programmes for young people aged 16-24 including: DfE 16-19 Study Programme, Traineeships, Apprenticeships, including those delivered to our staff team across England and corporately funded employer recruitment programmes. Barnardo's Employment, Training and Skills Yorkshire aims to engage, motivate and support young people to achieve qualifications, progress and secure sustained positive destinations such as further education or employment to improve their own life chances and provide a positive future. We are looking for an individual to assist the day-to- day provision of Conductive ETS. To provide help with preparation of materials for classes, and by assisting in groups of young people, aged 14-19 years , to participate fully in their Education and teaching programmes. JOB Activities

• To help learners with a range of abilities and needs in the classroom to complete pre-set work.
• Ensuring that the classroom environment is safe, productive, tidy and harmonious in the absence of the class teacher.
• Keeping pupils motivated to stay on task with any pre-set exercises that their teacher has set.
• Showing pupils the right steps to complete a task.
• Providing any materials or tools needed to complete a pre-prepared task.
• Helping pupils to follow pre-prepared material
• Working across different curriculum areas, including different subjects
• Supporting tutors to manage learners behaviour
• Communicating with the absent tutor and forwarding the completed exercises to them.
• Pastoral support to learners.
In addition to this role will include acting as cover in tutors absence, supporting with learner inductions and initial interviews. The hours can be agreed with the successful candidate ( 20-28 hours per week). Also term time only requests will be considered.

We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values. We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people. For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay., At Barnardo's we believe in children - no matter who they are, what they have done or what they have been through. Please read about our basis and values following the link below. You will be asked questions relating to them as part of the recruitment process for this role. Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is reflected in our values and our practice, and we have invested in this area of our work to ensure that we can deliver on our commitments to be an inclusive employer. EDI is a key enabler of our purpose as a charity and we want to ensure that the diversity of our teams is reflective of the communities we serve and that we continue to learn and develop our work with a focus on inclusion. We particularly encourage applications from candidates from Black, Asian and Minoritised Ethnic Communities, candidates who are LGBT+ and Disabled candidates.

Workplace Offer: What it means for you The world of work has changed. We are understanding of what works best for our colleagues both current and future as we look to embrace this new way of working. Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or any combination of these.
• Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
• 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing after 5 years service
• The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
• A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
• Service related sick pay from day 1
• Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
• Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
• Cycle2work scheme
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
• 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
• Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
• Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
• Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer