Teaching Assistant

At Catch22, we are proud of our reputation as a modern and progressive employer. Our 1,300 colleagues and 300 volunteers work at every stage of the social welfare cycle, supporting over 60,000 individuals from cradle to career. Our work spans education, justice and rehabilitation, children's social care, family support, social action and getting people into work.

Catch22 College is the collective name for 9 sites we have across the country delivering academic and vocational training programmes for young people aged 16+ who, for whatever reason, are not suited to a mainstream school setting. Our Peterlee site, like our all our other School sites, provides students with a highly supportive environment where they have access too opportunities to build up their confidence and self-belief, and to gain new skills and experiences that will help them to achieve their goals in life. We exist to help our students find their future.

We are looking for a Teaching Assistant to work as part of a small team delivering tailored learning programme to a small cohort of students. You will be supporting the delivery of Maths and English, vocational programmes as well as enrichment elements to help our students prepare for independence, and work experience. We expect every member of the team to work collaboratively and flexibly, but our Teaching Assistant will have specific accountabilities, which include:

1. Supporting our tutor to deliver amazing teaching to our students

• Support our Tutor to deliver English and Maths Functional Skills and vocational subjects over four teaching days.
• Use one day to support the new Recruitment and Progression Officer to plan and deliver employability workshops, support guest speakers and provide enrichment activities
• Provide support to learners on a one-to-one basis and in small groups, and all the while with empathy, respect and patience, appreciating that our students have faced, and continue to face many challenges in their lives which can make them harder to engage.
• Contribute to regular student reviews, using this and any other opportunity to build up our students’ self-belief and confidence, and to celebrating their successes or learn from any mistakes they may have made along the way.
• Where necessary, supporting the tutor to address any poor behaviour in the classroom (or wider centre) in way that’s appropriate to the situation and to the learner, i.e. informed by your awareness of how best to engage that student, to de-escalate the situation, etc.
• Sometimes provide cover for the Tutor when they are absent, and occasionally leading small group work within lessons.

2. Working alongside the wider team to build a culture of maturity, positivity and aspiration at the College site

• Embrace Catch22’s belief in the importance of building strong and meaningful human relationships, built around trust and empathy.
• Promote a culture of expectation and aspiration at the school - a genuine sense, shared by our students, that they are hear to learn, grow and succeed, not just pass the time of day.

3. Contributing to the overall success of the Catch22 College: Peterlee team

• Be flexible and ready to get stuck in! - The Catch22 College: Peterlee team is small, but aspires to be the best. For this reason, every members of the team must be committed to working collaboratively flexibly, sometimes covering each other or going the extra mile to have the best possible impact for our students.

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Qualifications:

Level 2 qualifications in English and maths, or a commitment to obtaining this qualification

A Teaching Assistant qualification at Level 2 or above, or a commitment to obtaining this qualification (desirable)

We are looking to appoint to this role as quickly as possible and will close this job off to new applicants when we have enough suitable candidates to interview. We, therefore, encourage candidates to apply as soon as possible.

Salary: £25,500 FTE. (£14,353.34 pro rata)

Contract: 29.6 hours per week (4 Days, Tuesday-Friday), Term Time only. 41 weeks per annum

Catch22 is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post. Any offer of employment will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.

See the benefits of working for Catch22 here.

Unless otherwise stated, interviews will be arranged as suitable candidates are identified, so early application is strongly advised.

We aim to review applications as quickly as possible. However, due to the volume of interest we receive, we may not be able to contact all applicants individually. If you have not heard from us within two weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application has not been successful this time.

At Catch22 we value equality, diversity and inclusion. We are wholeheartedly committed to the principle of equality of opportunity, both as an employer and as a provider of services. Diversity and Inclusion is part of what we do every day, working to deliver our vision to build a strong society where everyone has good people around them, a purpose, and a good place to live.

Catch22 is committed to rigorous safeguarding and safer recruitment practices; ensuring that every individual within the organisation has been safely and appropriately checked.

Please note, we will conduct an online search as part of our due dilligence checks for successful candidate(s). This will involve a search of all publicly available information online and in social media.

Catch22’s Commitment to Ban the Box

Catch22 is proud to have “Banned the Box ”. This means that we do not ask for candidates to disclose criminal convictions at the application stage. Instead, we invite disclosures at interview stage, and encourage them at the offer stage. Please see our statement of commitment on hiring people with convictions for more information.