Behaviour Teaching Assistant at Lytchett Minster School

We are looking for an enthusiastic and committed Behaviour Teaching Assistant to join our successful and professional pastoral team.    The ideal candidate will have a talent for engaging students and will be required to work flexibly across all age groups and abilities.   The post holder will play an important role in supporting individual students with social emotional behaviour difficulties, helping them overcome barriers to learning inside and outside of school, in order to achieve their potential.  The Behaviour Teaching Assistant will work with children on a one-to-one basis, supporting them in lessons and undertaking some 1:1 mentoring of them outside of the classroom.

The working hours for this post are 8.30am – 3.15pm, Monday to Friday, on a fixed term contract (1 year) to start as soon as possible. Part-time hours will also be considered. This is a term time only position working 38 weeks a year. 

Lytchett Minster School values the diversity of our workforce and welcomes applications from all sectors of the community.

Lytchett Minster School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people; this is a commitment which we expect all staff and volunteers to share. The successful candidate will be required to have a Disclosure and Barring Service check in line with the Governments safer recruitment guidelines.

The pro rata salary shown is based on the number of hours and weeks worked and includes appropriate paid annual leave and bank holiday entitlements.

The salary quoted is the annual salary for the position at the time of advert. The salary will be paid in equal monthly instalments and will be adjusted at the start of employment and again if leaving part way through the school year to ensure the correct salary is received for the work completed in an academic year.

This role is UK based and your Right to Work will need to be established as part of the appointment process.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (2013 and 2020)) provide that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. The MOJ’s guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.

Keeping Children Safe in Education

Lytchett Minster School will conduct online searches of shortlisted candidates. This check will be part of a safeguarding check, and the search will purely be based on whether an individual is suitable to work with children. All aspects of social media and internet searches will be conducted. As care must be taken to avoid unconscious bias and any risk of discrimination, a person who will not on the appointment panel will conduct the searches and will only share information if and when findings are relevant and of concern.

Lytchett Minster is a successful 11-18 mixed comprehensive school with approximately 1604 students, 318 of whom are in the exceptional sixth form.   The learning environment is stunning with extensive and beautiful grounds; the school site is comprised of South Lytchett Manor House together with a number of modern extensions including the Arts block and theatre.  We pride ourselves on our high standards and positive ethos, the school is popular and highly regarded in the community.