Integration Assistant (EAL Support) Maternity Cover
The Blue Coat School
Birmingham
- £11,165 - £18,744 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- Salary is dependent on qualifications and experience and is subject to review in September.
- Job type:
- Part Time, Maternity Cover
- Start date:
- September 2024
- Apply by:
- 17 April 2024
Job overview
Closing Date - Wednesday 17 April 2024
Interview Date - Tuesday 23 or Wednesday 24 April 2024
Start Date - September 2024
Core Hours - 21-28 hours during the school week, term time only
Salary - £11,165 - £18,744 (dependent upon qualifications and experience; subject to review in September)
Contract Type - maternity cover
Benefits of working at our school
The Blue Coat School is a diverse and vibrant community. We pride ourselves on cultivating a staff community who are innovative and dynamic teachers, knowledgeable and passionate support staff, and creative, forward-thinking leaders.
All staff have access to a range of benefits including ongoing CPD, a delicious free lunch each day during term time, remuneration on fees, access to a 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme, use of fitness facilities, social and wellbeing events and free on-site parking.
Support Staff are enrolled into a direct contribution pension scheme with generous employer contributions and associated benefits.
Post Overview
We are seeking to recruit a Part-Time Integration Assistant for a Maternity Cover position to work with children requiring EAL support across the school. The successful applicant will need to be caring and flexible, and be able to communicate effectively with children, parents and colleagues. Hours worked can be flexible, minimum 21 hours and maximum 28 hours per week during term time.
Qualifications/Professional Development
- Relevant EAL related qualification
- QTS or Level 3 qualification as defined by the Department for Education as being suitable for the EYFS
- Evidence of recent involvement in professional development
Experience and skills
- Experience of EAL support work with children aged 3 to 11 with an understanding of how to meet each child’s support needs
- Experience of planning, leading and participating in activities to support the learning needs of children in KS2, KS1 or the EYFS, either in groups or 1-1
- Effective communication and listening skills
Knowledge
- Sound understanding of safeguarding principles
- Sound knowledge of early childhood development, in particular for children for whom English is not their first language
- Knowledge of current good practice for children aged 3 – 11
- Sound knowledge of ‘Talk for Writing’ would be desirable
Personal attributes
- Sympathy with the Christian ethos and activities of the school
- Ability to form and maintain positive relationships
- Sensitivity to others and the ability to work cooperatively
- Wholehearted commitment to the life of a vibrant school community
A full job description and person specification can be viewed in the Information Booklet below.
All members of staff are required to promote and safeguard the welfare of children they are responsible for, or come into contact with, and to adhere to, and ensure compliance with, the School’s child protection procedures and staff guidance at all times.
Application forms, together with a supporting letter addressed to the Headmaster, Mr Noel Neeson, should be returned to recruitment@thebluecoatschool.com by 9am on Wednesday 17 April 2024. Interviews will take place on Tuesday 23 or Wednesday 24 April 2024. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to prepare an EAL support activity for a small group of children, and attend a formal interview. There will also be an opportunity to tour the school on the day.
At interview applicants must provide original documents to confirm their identity and right to work in the UK. They must also bring proof of qualifications where relevant for the post. The documentation required by applicants is listed in the Recruitment Policy which is available on the school website and from the School. All other attributes will be assessed using the contents of the application form, at interview and with the professional references.
The post is subject to a satisfactory enhanced DBS check (including a Barred List check), a satisfactory online check, a satisfactory medical fitness declaration and satisfactory references. Confidential references will be sought prior to interview.
The Blue Coat School is an equal opportunity employer.
Please note, we reserve the right to close posts and commence interviews at any time, once we have received sufficient applications. We advise you to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment.
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About The Blue Coat School
- The Blue Coat School
- Somerset Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham
- West Midlands
- B17 0HR
- United Kingdom
Thank you for considering our wonderful school. Since our earliest days we have been proudly providing an education that is second to none for the children of Birmingham and beyond. The School today is unrecognisable from its humble beginnings. The mantra 300 years on is ‘limitless learning for tomorrow’s achievers’ where our children thrive and achieve through an extensive academic programme balanced by outstanding offerings in creative arts, performing arts, sport and music.
The School has been shortlisted for three consecutive years for the TES Prep School of the Year Award. In 2020, our unique e-assessment programme, The BCS Blue, was also shortlisted for the TES Strategic Education Initiative of the Year and we were recognised as one of the country's top 25 schools in the i25 Awards.
With facilities that rival senior schools, pupils have the perfect resources for limitless learning. As a Prep School, Blue Coat’s sporting facilities are unrivalled. The addition of an all-weather AstroTurf pitch, cricket nets and two new gym studios have raised the bar even further - BCS Sport is going from strength to strength! We enter many national competitions and have achieved notable regional and national success in swimming, hockey and netball.
A wide-ranging extra-curricular programme is enhanced by partnerships with local clubs including, Bournville Rugby Club, Aston Villa Football Club, Diamond Swim Academy, Complete Cricket, Edgbaston Kestrels Hockey Academy, Edgbaston Priory Club and Edgbaston Golf Club.
In Prep, the children join one of our four Prep Houses. Unique to Blue Coat, these former boarding houses now offer a ‘home from home’ at the start and end of each day, the children can play games, enjoy a movie night, relax and have lots of fun. Inter-house competitions such as the House Shout, House Mastermind and House Matches are keenly fought!
The standard of musicianship at Blue Coat is simply breath-taking! Morning Recitals, BCS Young Musician of the Year and other termly concerts offer performance opportunities for our children. Many aspire to audition for the Chapel Choir which sings at weekly chapel services and joins with the Choral Society and Birmingham Cathedral Choir at special events throughout the year. Through Ensembles and Music Groups such as the Jazz Band, Percussion Group and Flute Ensemble, the children experience playing with their peers and this in turn raises their cognitive skills and improves them as players. The Music Department is supported by a team of Visiting Music Teachers who teach over 300 individual music lessons each week.
Thanks to a blend of brilliant teaching, genuine care and joint endeavour, our pupils leave us ready to make their mark in a thousand different fields. Each year we celebrate outstanding success in the senior school examinations with many pupils in receipt of scholarship awards not just in the academic field, but also for music, sport and the performing arts. Pupils progress to the region's most renowned schools including the Independent and Grammar Schools of the King Edward VI Foundation, Solihull School, Edgbaston High School for Girls and Bromsgrove School. Others progress to schools across the country including Cheltenham College and Wycombe Abbey, as well as 13+ entry to the likes of Repton School and Eton College.
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