What skills and experience we're looking for
You will need:
• Desirable to have Level 2 or Level 3 Teaching Assistant qualification or equivalent
• Proven track record of strong and consistent behaviour management
• Experience of working closely with parents in successful home-school partnerships that support pupils’ needs
• A working knowledge of relevant and effective SEN interventions and how to support pupils with SEND
• Skilled at making and sustaining positive relationships with children
• Able to stimulate children’s interest in learning
• Able to work closely with pupils who are finding learning difficult, or those who have experienced a feeling of failure
• Skilled at developing children’s self-esteem and motivation so that they become resilient, independent learners
• Capable of delivering intervention work and maintaining appropriate records
• Knowledge and understanding of how children learn
• Familiar with IT and its educational uses or approaches
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
What the school offers its staff
You will need:
• Desirable to have Level 2 or Level 3 Teaching Assistant qualification or equivalent
• Proven track record of strong and consistent behaviour management
• Experience of working closely with parents in successful home-school partnerships that support pupils’ needs
• A working knowledge of relevant and effective SEN interventions and how to support pupils with SEND
• Skilled at making and sustaining positive relationships with children
• Able to stimulate children’s interest in learning
• Able to work closely with pupils who are finding learning difficult, or those who have experienced a feeling of failure
• Skilled at developing children’s self-esteem and motivation so that they become resilient, independent learners
• Capable of delivering intervention work and maintaining appropriate records
• Knowledge and understanding of how children learn
• Familiar with IT and its educational uses or approaches
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.