Dorset Council
Teaching Assistant Level 2 at St Mark's CE Primary School

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Do you Aspire to deliver the best possible provision for children and develop your own skills and abilities? Does mutual Respect underpin your working principles? Are you keen to work within a dynamic and enthusiastic team who Rejoice in individual and collective achievements? If these core values inspire you, then you might be just who we need to join our school community.
To understand and apply School policies in relation to safeguarding, health, safety & welfare
Attend relevant training and take responsibility for own development.
Attend relevant School meetings as required.
To respect confidentiality at all times, including appropriate professional behaviour online.
To participate in the performance and development review process, taking personal responsibility for identification of learning, development and training opportunities in discussion with line manager.
To comply with individual responsibilities, in accordance with the role, for health & safety and Safeguarding in the workplace.
Ensure that all duties and services provided are in accordance with the School’s Equal Opportunities Policy.
The Governing Body is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.
Working 28.75hrs per week, term-time only. Interviews will be held after the Summer Holidays, dates to be confirmed
Further Information
St Mark's CE Primary School values the diversity of our workforce and welcomes applications from all sectors of the community.
We are 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.
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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 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
St Mark's CE Primary 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.


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About Us
Welcome to St Mark’s C.E. Primary school: a thriving community of 420 pupils from Reception to Year 6, set in picturesque woodland on the border of Bournemouth and Poole, a stone’s throw from the fantastic open space at Slades Farm.
At St Mark’s we offer a broad and balanced curriculum where we value music, sports and the arts alongside the core subjects of Religious Education, English, maths, science. We offer a variety of extra-curricular activities, as well as wraparound care from 07:30-17:30 Monday to Friday. Our facilities include a range of play equipment set in a large playground and field, as well as a heated indoor swimming pool, allowing all our children to swim each year.
Superb nurture and ELSA provision, alongside initiatives such as Trickbox, support mental health, wellbeing and development of emotional resilience in all our pupils.
We have forged strong links with St Mark's Church and work closely together with the vicar and children's minister; our children also regularly visit the church both for activities and acts of worship.
St Mark’s has earned a respected reputation for being a caring and supportive Christian community which promotes the inclusion of a diverse range of abilities and needs in a mainstream setting. A dedicated and committed team of staff, alongside supportive parents, seek to ensure that all children aspire to achieve their very best, regardless of their background.
St Mark’s is a school with a proud heritage of serving families from the local area since 1862, thanks to an ambitious and far-sighted project by the Talbot sisters 160 years ago. Today, we strive to build on their legacy, to provide the very best quality of education and nurturing, to enable all of our learners to flourish as children of God.
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