Job Vacancies

SEN Teaching Assistant

Salary: Grade 3 - Points 9 -14 (£25,119 - £27,334)

Actual: £21,991 - £23,930

Working time: Permanent, Term Time Only

Hours: Full Time (36.5 hours per week)

Start date: September (or sooner if possible)

Are you committed to inspiring and motivating students?

Enthusiastic and optimistic in wanting the very best for each student?

We are seeking applications from dedicated and hardworking professionals with a desire to work in a successful, thriving, and supportive academy making a positive contribution to our pastoral team.

This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant difference to a wide range of learners. You must be a positive and passionate individual with a commitment to delivering outstanding support to young people.

We wish to appoint a highly motivated, outstanding Teaching Assistant to provide high quality SEND provision. You will work with teaching staff to develop teaching resources to support the learning of students and you will raise the aspiration of students through coaching and mentoring.

This role would suit someone who is compassionate and caring and is committed to making a positive change to young people’s lives. This role involves working across a variety of different classes, so you need to be able to easily adapt and work with children of different levels/ needs and be able to provide 121 supervision and personal care for someone with a physical disability.

You should have a flexible approach, be able to build a rapport with staff and students and be able to work under pressure. To be successful in this role you should hold a teaching assistant qualification or relevant degree and have experience of working within a classroom setting.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone to shape and develop their career in a highly experienced and supportive environment.

Candidates whose personal qualities and values reflect those in the person specification, and whose experiences also place them in a strong position to deliver the challenges set out in the job description.

Taken from our recent Ofsted Inspection in November 2022: ‘Aspire, Believe, Achieve’ is at the heart of Harborne Academy. Aspirational words and images surround pupils in corridors and classrooms. Pupils welcome these. Pupils and staff share positive and respectful relationships. Pupils value the support staff give them. This motivates pupils to achieve well, and they do. Pupils are happy and safe at school.

For more information and to apply, contact Jodie Massey at Hays Education on 07761446571 email harborneacademy@hays.com. Alternatively, please apply on the academy website (Job Vacancies - Harborne Academy) and email recruitment@harborneacademy.co.uk directly with your application.

If you would like to visit the academy, please contact the Headteachers PA on 0121 464 2737 or via sarah.gregory@harborneacademy.co.uk

Interviews: TBC with successful candidates

Job Description

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Teacher of Design Technology

Salary scale: Main Pay Scale 1-6 (£30,004 - £39,209)

Contract term: Permanent

Working time: Full time  

Required from: September 2024

Harborne Academy are looking to recruit a teacher of design technology, with a strong background in resistant materials (wood/metal/ plastics). Experience and the ability to teach 3D art is also desirable.

The right candidate will be passionate about helping our students to learn to design and make across a wide range of materials, processes, and scales. We invite applications from teachers who love working collaboratively with children and have creative design, making and communication skills across a range of materials and outcomes.

The position would suit applicants with a background in resistant materials, sculpture, jewellery, 3D art. Above all else, we are seeking a candidate with the enthusiasm and the drive to help our students gain confidence in the skills needed to progress their own amazing ideas.

The department places a major focus on practical, hands-on workshop learning, with students being exposed to a wide range of techniques and processes (welding, forging, raising, laminating, carving, casting and resin work). Students produce ambitious, sophisticated, and highly creative outcomes, which further highlights that art, design, and creative thinking are valued at the core of what we do.

We welcome applications from candidates whose personal qualities and values reflect those in the person specification, and whose experiences also place them in a strong position to deliver the challenges set out in the job description.

Taken from our recent Ofsted Inspection in November 2022: ‘Aspire, Believe, Achieve’ is at the heart of Harborne Academy. Aspirational words and images surround pupils in corridors and classrooms. Pupils welcome these. Pupils and staff share positive and respectful relationships. Pupils value the support staff give them. This motivates pupils to achieve well, and they do. Pupils are happy and safe at school.

For more information and to apply, contact Jodie Massey at Hays Education on 07761446571 email harborneacademy@hays.com. Alternatively, please apply on the academy website (Job Vacancies - Harborne Academy) and email recruitment@harborneacademy.co.uk directly with your application.

If you would like to visit the academy, please contact the Headteachers PA on 0121 464 2737 or via sarah.gregory@harborneacademy.co.uk

Closing Date: 11^th July 2024

Interviews: TBC with successful candidates

Job Description

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