Teaching Assistant - Full-time

Leigh Academy Molehill has a fantastic opportunity to appoint an enthusiastic and motivated Teaching Assistant to join our highly collaborative and supportive team, starting from November 2024. Our Teaching Assistants are pivotal to our success in the classroom and provide a great deal of support for our teachers, therefore our successful candidate will be able to establish strong working relationships with staff and students alike. Key responsibilities will be to provide pupils with a wide range of support, guided by the Class Teacher, to enable children to make progress and attain the targets set within the National Curriculum or Individual Education Plans.
In return we can offer you:
+ The opportunity to help shape our future by joining a LAT Academy
+ A school community committed to raising achievement and attainment
+ A supportive Governing Body and Leadership Team
Our academy is a happy, caring and secure community which offers a stimulating learning environment. By developing potential and self-esteem we help everyone to become a unique, responsible, considerate and successful individual.
By learning together we:
+ foster a lifelong love of learning.
+ provide a range of intellectual, physical and creative activities.
+ nurture spiritual, moral, social and cultural awareness.
+ develop lively, enquiring minds.
+ promote respect, responsibility and self discipline.
+ build self-esteem and a sense of community.
This is a permanent opportunity offering an actual salary of £18,437 per annum (£24,404 full time equivalent) per annum based on 32.5 hours per week, Term Time + 1 week of inset., The sense of pride that we each feel here at Molehill is strengthened by our commitment to placing our pupils at the centre of their learning. Teachers have embedded a culture of high expectations; we will all do whatever it takes to create better life opportunities for our children who deserve the very best. We care about our pupils and the communities we serve, and driven by our strong moral purpose we work together to achieve excellence for all, creating confident, resilient children.
Our pledge to parents is that we will provide every pupil with the knowledge, skills, self belief and motivation to be successful in their learning and lives. At Molehill, we promote the International Baccalaureate Learner Profile Attributes to support the development of life-long learners. Our pupils are inquirers, our curriculum develops their natural curiosity and allows them to apply their thinking skills creatively. We strive to ensure that, through our excellent teaching, pupils become highly articulate communicators, who act with integrity and honesty. Our pupils demonstrate on a daily basis that they are caring individuals, and they, like us, want to make a positive difference to the lives of others.