Teaching Assistant - Pebble Brook School

Teaching Assistant - Pebble Brook School

Location:

Aylesbury

Term time only: Yes

Salary type: Bucks Pay

Salary Details: Bucks Pay Range 2 £ 21,735.00 - £23,555.00 Annually (Actual) Term time only - 39 weeks

Contract type: Permanent

Hours: Full-time

Interviews to be held: To be confirmed upon application

Pebble Brook School is a community special school that believes everyone can succeed. We want our pupils to be safe and happy in school. We want our pupils to be proud of their school and feel respected. We aim to support the development of children (aged 11 - 19) with communication and interaction needs including speech, language and communication needs, autistic spectrum disorder and additional learning difficulties.

This is an exciting opportunity for you to start your career as a Teaching Assistant, gaining experience working with a range of learning needs. Pebble Brook provides you the opportunity to work closely with other Teachers and Specialists supporting the teaching of our core curriculum;
Maths, English, PE and Art followed with enrichment subjects to support students with ASD, ADHD and additional learning difficulties.

You’ll need to be a team player and collaborator, sharing ideas and strategies with colleagues whilst learning from them, and reflecting on each term, seeking improvement through solution focused practice.

You will be committed to working to meet the individual needs of our pupils and confident communicating to students ranging from year 7 to sixth form.

Good communication skills with adults, children and young adults are desired, as are good literacy and numeracy skills, good written and spoken English and a good working knowledge of ICT to be able to use ICT effectively to support learning.

For further information please see attached Job description and Person specification.

Visits to the school are warmly welcome. To arrange a visit or to find out more about the role, please contact our school office on the number below.

Pebble Brook follows Buckinghamshire Council guidelines for safer recruitment. This position will be subject to safer recruitment checks, Social Media checks and the successful applicant will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check. We welcome applications regardless of ability, gender, ethnicity or religion.

Please complete the Self-Declaration form included with the attached documents and submit with your application.

This school is fully committed to safeguarding and the welfare of children and young people in all aspects of its work, including recruitment, and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education Safe in Education 2025 online searches will be carried out on all shortlisted candidates. The search is not part of the shortlisting process itself, and candidates will have a chance to address any issues of concern that come up during the search at interview.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore

applicants are required to declare:

• All unspent convictions and conditional cautions
• All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020).
• For further information on filtering please refer to Nacro guidance and the guidance issued by the Ministry of Justice (see, in particular, the section titled ‘Exceptions Order’). It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. All shortlisted applicants will be required to complete self-disclosure form and return prior to interview.