Key Stage 1 Teaching Assistant

Key Stage 1 Teaching Assistant

• Full-time
• Battersea, Wandsworth
• £70 – £90 per day
• Start date: Feb 2022

Vision Teaching are currently working alongside a mainstream Primary School in Wandsworth. Due to the recent break in education the school are looking to appoint a Key Stage 1 Teaching Assistant on a full-time basis, starting in February 2022, this role is currently temporary until July 2022, with the potential to be extended into the new academic year

As a Teaching Assistant in this school, you would be welcomed by an experienced and friendly Senior Leadership Team who are all too happy to help the successful candidate settle into their new role and school. The Headteacher is approachable and places great importance upon the professional development of her staff and their happiness within the school.

High standards of behaviour are of great importance across the school; therefore, the successful candidate must be confident in implementing effective behavioural strategies and upholding the school ethos. Experience across Key Stage 1 is essential, as is a sound knowledge of the National Curriculum. As an individual, the appointed candidate must hold a genuine passion for education and be of a positive, enthusiastic, and nurturing nature.

In this role, you would be required to:

• Assist the class teacher with the delivery of lessons
• Work across both classes (approx. 28 pupils) to encourage a positive attitude to learning
• Assist in the management of behaviour
• Work with children on a 1:1 basis to provide extra support where needed, specifically targeting maths, reading, and writing abilities

To be successful, the candidate must:

• CACHE Level 2/3 Teaching Assistant qualification
• Have minimum grade C in English & Maths at GCSE (or equivalent)
• Experience using Letters and Sounds, Jolly Phonics or Read Write Inc. Phonics schemes
• Experience supporting children within a Primary School setting.
• Demonstrate experience of addressing gaps in learning due to school closures
• Experience across KS1 setting

When you apply with Vision Teaching, you don’t just get a job, you become part of our community!

• Competitive rates of pay & we refund the cost of your DBS after you have worked 10 days for us
• Free Team Teach training & opportunities to progress your career through our CPD courses with our head of CPD Siobhan Casey. Including TA behaviour management, Phonics, Mental Health awareness and introduction to SEND
• Our team has on average over 7.5 years education recruitment experience and can provide you with professional support and advice to help you find your ideal role
• There are lots of opportunities to earn extra money including recommended a friend and earn £150, write a blog for us and earn £20 & you can also take part in our prize draws as last year we gave away a 5 star holiday to a support worker
• Vision Teaching is in the top 10 Education Recruitment agencies in the UK, with 9/10 on rate my teaching agency, 4.7/5 on Facebook and 4.7/5 on google
• Vision Teaching won Recruitment Company of the Year in December 2021
• We are passionate about providing our educators with regular & consistent work
• We hold social events such as breakfast catch up’s, evening socials, quiz’s, and trips, so our educators get maximum enjoyment out of their roles & working with Vision Teaching
• Vision Teaching actively give back to the communities we work with which includes funding mental health programmes in schools, volunteering time and money to the Felix project, hosting football tournaments for school staff, giving resources away to schools, sponsoring school based projects and we celebrate the amazing work you do in schools with our educator of the month

Vision Teaching Ltd was established in February 2007 to be a different type of educational recruiter, one that was committed to excellent customer service and building long-term relationships. We are one of the most successful independent education recruitment companies in London. Throughout our time we have filled over 400,000 bookings, successfully placed almost 5000 educators into roles and worked with over 1,140 schools. We solely focus on London, attracting and retaining quality staff so that we can make a real difference to pupils in our partner schools. We proactively recruit for all school-based positions, prioritising staff with education-based experience, from leadership to qualified teachers and all types of school support staff.

Here at Vision Teaching we work with hundreds of schools all over London, who rely on us to help cover their recruitment needs, we believe in matching the right educator, to the right school, so they can make a difference to the lives of pupils and ultimately raise attainment.

As a result of great start to the year, we are working with 200 partner schools and have hundreds of live vacancies! If you’re looking to get more out of your future, we think you’ll love life with Vision Teaching. We recruit high calibre people with the skills, knowledge and commitment to meet the demands of our partner schools. So get in touch today and find out how we can help you!