Teaching Assistant Grade 3; Hearing Impairment iBSL or Signature level 2 in BSL

Overview

Job

Start Date:

ASAP

Actual Salary: TA3, £17,237.60 - £20,253.18 per annum

27.5 hours a week, term time only, plus 5 training days

Teaching Assistant Grade 3 (Hearing Impairment) with iBSL or Signature level 2 in BSL

The Governors of Millfields First School are seeking to appoint a dynamic, innovative, highly motivated BSL teaching assistant to join our team.

Millfields First School

Contract Type: Contract in line with child’s continued attendance at Millfields and level of funding

Position: Teaching Assistant

Grade: Teaching Assistant Grade 3 (Hearing Impairment) with iBSL or Signature level 2 in BSL

• Be a highly motivated person who demonstrates the ability to contribute to the raising of standards by ensuring high expectations are promoted for pupils
• The ability to use British Sign Language to communicate with a deaf child
• To enable the deaf child to access the mainstream curriculum and all class activities using British Sign Language within a Total Communication approach
• To assist the deaf pupil to develop their communication skills — deliver targeted individual activities with sign and voice to develop expressive and receptive language skills and follow the ‘Steps to Success’ framework for developing signed language
• To use strategies, within the context of teacher-led planning, to support the deaf pupil in achieving learning goals and maximising independent communication opportunities with peers and staff
• Ability to build and sustain positive relationships with children and adults

• A happy welcoming school with a caring ethos
• A friendly, supportive and committed staff
• A positive learning environment
• A school full of bright, eager, sociable young learners
• A school that is receptive to creative thinking and innovation
• Supportive parents
• Quality opportunities for continuing professional development

Visits to the school are welcome; please contact the Office Manager for further information or visit our school website. Telephone:  Email: of Interview date: 12th February.

This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS;
Prohibition check;
Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work. All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.

Rehabilitation of offenders:
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. This means that certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.

An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all shortlisted candidates.