Are you passionate about supporting children to be the best they can be? An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our highly motivated and forward-thinking team at Dunbury Academy. We are looking for a 1:1 Teaching Assistant who can inspire and motivate our learners with high expectations and a drive to enable pupils to flourish. This is a fixed term position until 31 August 2025. 6 hours per day, 30 hours per week, term time only, including INSET days, 39 weeks.
The successful candidate will be responsible for working across a discrete range of pupil need e.g. supporting learning in the classroom, providing sensory and/or emotional regulating breaks and for the most part, this will be delivered on a 1 to 1 basis within the classroom. You will work with teachers /SENCO to promote individual pupils’ academic, social and emotional development through the provision of a stable, caring and supportive learning environment; to enable the pupil(s) to achieve their full learning potential and facilitate their personal, academic, social and moral development.
There may be a special needs element where you will work with pupils with disability, learning difficulties or behavioural problems. We pride ourselves on having high standards of conduct and behaviour at all times and are seeking a professional to join us in promoting this in our learning community.
Dunbury is a small rural school with a big heart, where we practise and live our values of trust, friendship, respect and courage every day, as recognised in our recent ‘Good’ OfSTED. We have happy and enthusiastic children and staff who are supportive of each other. We are passionate about using research driven teaching approaches to ensure we focus on the things that matter. Our school vision of ‘Strength in difference, together we are one and together we fly high’ is key to our warm and supportive environment and drives us in everything we do.