Teaching Assistant

Description:

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Location: Darwen, Lancashire

Salary: £11.72 - £12.78 per hour (£20,941.30 - £22,835.30 actual salary) depending on experience

Hours: 40 hours per week - Term Time Only

This school has approximately 50 boys aged 10 - 19

Many of the young people have had a poor experience of formal educational settings in the past, and may face significant barriers to learning. With the support of trained, skilled and experienced teaching and therapeutic staff, students are able to overcome their barriers and to develop the skills they need to thrive in their lives beyond school.

This school is part of a group of over 15 SEN schools and supported living across the UK. They are the sixth-largest provider of specialist educational services in the country, supporting over 900 children and young people, and employing over 1,000 staff.

Your Skills/Qualifications/Experience

Experience working with SEN in an employed or voluntary setting??

Full UK driving licence and access to your owncar absolutely necessary, as you will be required to carpool students to and from school, on a rota basis.

A recognised qualification at Level 2 or above in Support work for Teaching and Learning in Schools or an equivalent?is desirable???

GCSE Maths and English Level 2/C or above qualification is essential.

Understanding of the Safeguarding principles and Child Protection procedures.?

Knowledge or experience of pupils with SEN or SEMH/ASD?

The desire to put the child first and treat them as an individual?

Be positive and creative in assisting to meet pupils’ individual needs?

The Role:

As a new Teaching Assistant, your role is to support children with their learning and general wellbeing to ensure every child has the best opportunity to reach their full potential in a caring and safe environment. Where necessary this may include supporting with care needs from time to time as well as positive behaviour management adopting a tailored approach to the individual child.

You will be expected to establish a warm, caring and supportive relationship with pupils in order to support them feeling safe and enabling them to enjoy and learn during their time at the School, and to promote and encourage independence and personal development in pupils and maintain high expectations of behaviour at all times.

You will support the class teacher and contribute to providing high quality, challenging and differentiated educational activities and experiences through supporting the teaching of a broad and balanced curriculum aiming at pupils achieving their full potential in all areas of learning.

Key duties:

Participate in the planning and evaluation of learning activities.??

Provide meaningful feedback on pupil attainment and progress.?

Support the teacher in monitoring, assessing, recording and reporting pupils’ progress according to the school’s policies in order to monitor and foster pupils’ progress in all areas of learning.?

Support positive behaviour and concentration levels of the children and adapt own behaviour and responses to any change or escalations in behaviour of the children.?

Promote spiritual, moral, social and cultural (SMSC) development and British values within the PSHE policy across the whole school.?

Promote pupils’ cognitive, social, emotional, behavioural, physical development and spiritual well-being through a whole Day Curriculum.?

Like many SEN environments; your duties are likely to vary and therefore candidates will need to be flexible and be able to lend a hand whenever required.

Benefits:

Full training and continued support

Life assurance and pension

Health cash back plan

Car lease scheme

Bike to work scheme

Perk box

Free parking

School Staffing Recruitment Ltd is acting as an employment business for this position.

Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.

As a result of the volume of applications, If we have not contacted you within two weeks of your application being received, then regretfully your application will not be taken forward on this occasion