Start Date: As soon as possible
Role:
Eden Park Primary & Nursery School, a popular and successful large primary, requires a part-time teaching assistant to support a child currently in year 5 who has special needs.
Working – Monday to Friday which includes supporting across lunch times.
You will be a teaching assistant who:
1. Has excellent subject knowledge.
2. Has high expectations of themselves and those around them.
3. Has ambition, energy, and a passion for teaching.
4. Places great importance in developing strong relationships with children, staff and the wider community. We are invested in the personal development of children.
5. Has the ability and drive to provide high quality learning experiences that will inspire and motivate children of all abilities.
We can offer you a school that is:
6. A happy place for staff and children, popular with parents.
7. Busy, with a great ethos
8. Innovative and forward thinking
9. Committed to providing children with rich and varied learning experiences as part of an exciting and meaningful curriculum.
We are a large nursery and primary school located in the picturesque fishing port of Brixham within the beautiful coastal area of Torbay in South Devon. Our school serves a diverse catchment area and works hard to ensure that all our children thrive and grow to their full potential.
Eden Park Primary & Nursery School is part of Connect Academy Trust, a multi-academy Trust of eight schools within Torbay and Plymouth. The Trust now educates over 3500 children with 550 staff, in both Plymouth and Torbay. Connect was formed in 2016 and aims to provide a firm foundation for developing teachers and leaders to secure the best learning opportunities for all children. It operates a dynamic, values-based system where each school is a giver and receiver of support. Connect is an inclusive Trust and 3 of our schools have specialist support centres, for deaf children, those with an ASC diagnosis and for those with a developmental language disorder.
We can offer you:
10. A highly supportive school invested in your growth and professional development.
11. A Trust culture that promotes diversity, equality and social justice.
12. A supportive approach for all staff and an innovative approach to appraisal.
13. Comprehensive induction and wide-ranging opportunities for professional development.
14. An opportunity to be part of a forward focussed and growing Trust, author of the UK’s first ocean conservation curriculum with 8 European Blue Schools and national winner of the Community Impact of the year Trust award 2023!
We welcome visits to the school to meet the children and staff. Please contact the school office on 01803 854011 or email to arrange a visit.
Connect is fully committed to equal opportunities, safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An on-line check of publicly available information will be completed to assess the successful candidate’s suitability to work with children.