Job Vacancies
- Teaching Assistant Level 2 - SYS-2827
- Location
- Pen Y Cwm Special School
- Directorate
- Education
- Salary
- Grade 4 (£25,584 - £27,711 per annum/pro rata) - 32.5 hrs per week / Term Time only
Due to expansion and an increase in pupil numbers, Pen-y-Cwm School is seeking to appoint Level 2 Teaching Assistants to join an enthusiastic and dedicated team of staff, to support learners with complex needs in our 4 – 19 special school.
The candidate must be willing to demonstrate they are a team player alongside our established team of teaching assistants maintaining our core values by:
- Enabling learners to be successful through developing and supporting excellent attitudes to learning.
- Supporting learner’s emotional wellbeing, enabling them to be safe at all times.
You will need to demonstrate excellent communication and organisational skills. You must be resourceful, positive, emotionally resilient and have a holistic approach to supporting the needs of children and young people. An ability to contribute to the warm, caring ethos of our school is essential
- Closing Date
- 12/05/2025
- Contractual Status
- Fixed Term
- Date
- To commence 1st September 2025 until 31st August 2026
- Job Type
- External
- Full description
- Teaching Assistant Level 3 - SYS-2826
- Location
- Pen y Cwm Special School
- Directorate
- Education
- Salary
- Grade 5 (£28,624 - £31,586 per annum/pro rata) - 32.5hrs per week / Term Time Only
Due to expansion and increase in pupil numbers, we are seeking to appoint innovative Level 3 Teaching Assistants ready to develop their leadership skills whilst supporting teaching and learning within the classroom.
We are looking to employ Level 3 Teaching Assistants to support learning through working closely with the class teacher to ensure effective teaching and learning.
You may be required to support the class in the short term absence of a class teacher, ensuring that there is no detrimental effect to learning.
You will need to be flexible in providing both planned and unplanned support to meet the needs of our learners.
- Closing Date
- 12/05/2025
- Contractual Status
- Fixed Term
- Date
- To commence 1st September 2025 until 31st August 2026
- Job Type
- External
- Full description
- Teacher - SYS-2825
- Location
- Pen Y Cwm Special School
- Directorate
- Education
- Salary
- MPS - UPS (£32,433 - £49,944) plus SEN 1 £2,728 - Full Time
Due to expansion and an increase in pupil numbers, Pen-y-Cwm School is seeking to employ enthusiastic and dynamic teachers with experience in the field of SEN/ALN.
The school has pupils aged 4 – 19 years and the teacher will be deployed to a particular phase in the first instance but must be prepared to teach across the whole age range in the future.
- Closing Date
- 12/05/2025
- Contractual Status
- Fixed Term
- Date
- To commence 1st September 2025 - 31st August 2026
- Job Type
- External
- Full description
- PMLD Teacher (Profound & Multiple Learning Disabilities) - SYS-2824
- Location
- Pen y Cwm Special School
- Directorate
- Education
- Salary
- Teachers MPS – UPS (£32,433 – £49,944 per annum) plus SEN 1 £2,728 - Full Time
Are you passionate about transforming the lives of students with PMLD?
At Pen-y-Cwm School we are excited to offer a thriving opportunity for an engaging and experienced PMLD (Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities) Teacher.
As a PMLD Teacher, you will be responsible for delivering a tailored curriculum to students with complex learning needs, the majority of whom have significantly reduced mobility or are unable to move without support. You will play a key role in creating an inclusive and nurturing learning environment that supports the individual educational, physical, and sensory needs of each learner.
- Closing Date
- 12/05/2025
- Contractual Status
- Permanent
- Date
- To commence 1st September 2025
- Job Type
- External
- Full description
- Deputy Headteacher 3-16 - SYS-2823
- Location
- Abertillery 3-16 Learning Community
- Directorate
- Education
- Salary
- L27-L31 (£95,984-£105,862 per annum) - Full Time
Abertillery learning Community is seeking to appoint an ambitious and inspiring sole Deputy Headteacher across 3-16. The school actively encourages applications from global majority backgrounds, with the successful candidate able to make a significant contribution in raising standards across the school and setting high expectations to drive and achieve excellence.
The governors are seeking to appoint an outstanding teacher and leader who has an in-depth understanding and experience of school improvement. The successful candidate will meet the following criteria:
The successful candidate will:
- Have recent experience of leadership at deputy headteacher or headteacher level
- Lead whole school anti-racist practices, to actively promote and celebrate diversity across the school community
- Be highly visible within the community, actively developing effective and integrated community and school working relationships
- Believe in the importance of strong, positive pupil well-being and promote values that develop our pupils’ wellbeing and love of learning
- Be an exemplary teacher with the highest expectations of themselves and others
- Be an advocate of children’s rights
- Have high expectations for the teaching, learning, behaviour and attitude across the school to ensure high expectations and appropriate challenge for all
- Have a passion for teaching and learning, with high aspirations for all
- Demonstrate an appetite for professional learning that impacts upon pedagogy, supporting professional growth across our school
- Have proven skills to model and develop high quality teaching and learning across school
- Demonstrate a strong commitment to securing the highest quality provision and outcomes for children
- Lead by example, and have proven experience and success, with an understanding of and a working knowledge of KS4 qualifications reform and accountability measures
- Have a good understanding of the National Mission for Wales and curriculum reform
- Be a strategic thinker with proven leadership experience, good organisational, interpersonal, and communication skills
- Closing Date
- 05/05/2025
- Contractual Status
- Permanent
- Date
- to commence 1st September 2025 (or as early as possible)
- Job Type
- External
- Full description
- Deputy Headteacher - SYS-2822
- Location
- Ysgol Gyfun Tredegar Comprehensive School
- Directorate
- Education
- Salary
- Leadership Pay Range Points L19 – L23 (£78,910 - £87,027 per annum) - Full Time
The Governing Body of Ysgol Gyfun Tredegar Comprehensive School are seeking to appoint an exceptional Deputy Headteacher to fully support the Headteacher in the school’s journey towards excellence. The successful candidate will be passionate about driving our school forward and will have the ability to motivate and develop staff as part of a tenacious team, which prides itself as being truly collaborative and supportive.
We wish to appoint an ambitious and inspirational leader who will make outstanding contributions to the senior leadership team and the future development of the school.
The successful applicant will have a proven track record of exceptional performance in leadership and teaching, and have the clear ability to effectively fulfil the requirements of any senior leadership role.
- Closing Date
- 02/05/2025
- Contractual Status
- Permanent
- Date
- to commence 1st September 2025
- Job Type
- External
- Full description
- Assistant Cook - SYS-2821
- Location
- Ebbw Fawr Primary/Pen y Cwm, Ebbw Vale
- Directorate
- Regeneration & Community Services
- Salary
- Grade 3 (£24,404 to £25,183 pro rata/per annum) 22.5 hours per week, 39 weeks per year
Responsibilities include assisting the Cook in the preparation of the School Meals Catering service in primary school.
- Closing Date
- 08/05/2025
- Contractual Status
- Permanent
- Date
- N/A
- Job Type
- External
- Full description
- Peripatetic Catering Assistant - SYS-2820
- Location
- Various locations throughout the Borough
- Directorate
- Regeneration & Community Services
- Salary
- Grade 2 (£23,656 – £24,404 pro rata/per annum) - plus supplement to meet the Real Living Wage of £12.60 per hour / 16 hours per week / 39 weeks per year
An opportunity has arisen within the Environment and Regeneration directorate for a Catering Assistant to work under the supervision of the Cook in Charge and/or Assistant Cook and to assist and carry out any instructions given in the preparation, cooking and serving of food or cleaning away, washing up, cleaning processes or handling of cash.
The purpose of the role of Peripatetic Catering Assistant is to carry out the role at various sites throughout the authority.
- Closing Date
- 08/05/2025
- Contractual Status
- Permanent
- Date
- to commence as soon as possible pending pre-employment checks
- Job Type
- External
- Full description
- Youth & Community Worker (SPF) - SYS-2819
- Location
- Agile Worker / EVI, Ebbw Vale
- Directorate
- Education
- Salary
- Grade 6 (£32,115 - £36,124 per annum) - 37 hours per week
The Youth and Community Worker-SPF will provide support, guidance, and mentoring to young people aged 11-25 who are identified as at risk of becoming, or are currently NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training). Dependent on the needs of the identified young people, the youth worker will be expected to work towards the outcomes for either the 11-16 or 16-25 teams within the project by means of group work or on an individual basis.
This post is specifically linked to mainstream educational settings throughout Blaenau Gwent. Predominantly, the post holder will create bespoke support packages for young people aged 11-16. This posts also include an expectation of providing wider support in the community outside of core school hours and evenings.
- Closing Date
- 24/04/2025
- Contractual Status
- Fixed Term
- Date
- until 31st March 2026
- Job Type
- External
- Full description
- INTERNAL - Wellbeing Coordinator - SYS-2818
- Location
- Agile Worker
- Directorate
- Social Services
- Salary
- Grade 6 (£32,115 - £36,124 per annum) 37 hours per week
An opportunity has arisen in the IAA adults team for an enthusiastic and confident individual who can rise to the challenge of a busy front line service. The overall purpose of the well-being coordinator role is to support the department to develop innovative strategies that enable citizens to enjoy more independent lives in their communities. You are required to provide a signposting, information and advice service at the access points of the Adult Social Services to ensure that the department meets its duty within the Social Services and Wellbeing Act 2014.
This is an internal advertisement, open to current employees of the Council only.
- Closing Date
- 24/04/2025
- Contractual Status
- Fixed Term
- Date
- January 2027
- Job Type
- Internal
- Full description
