Teaching Assistant for KS2 – Harrow - September 2024, Harrow
Client: Clarus Education
Location: Harrow, United Kingdom
Job Category: Education
EU work permit required: Yes
Job Reference: e14d4fff7441
Job Views: 40
Posted: 11.04.2025
Expiry Date: 26.05.2025
Job Description:
Role – KS2 Teaching Assistant
Are you an experienced teaching assistant who is looking for an exciting opportunity and a new challenge?
* Plan with colleagues for the care and education of the children, taking into account the needs and abilities of individual children.
* Work as part of the team to plan and organise a clean, tidy, safe and stimulating environment.
* Establish professional relationships with parents and all those who come into contact with the school.
* Keep records and carry out activities in line with the curriculum.
* Observe and assess the needs and progress of children in all areas of their development and share those observations with colleagues and parents under the direction of the class teacher.
* Independently plan, prepare and supervise specific appropriate activities for small groups or individual pupils – both indoors and outside.
* Assist the teacher with children requiring special care, including new entrants, sick children, or children with Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities.
* Care for the general welfare of the children, helping them dress and undress, and assist in the cloakroom and toilets.
* Be responsible for the care of sick children with support from the welfare officer.
Person Specification:
Qualifications & Experience:
* Graduate or NNEB or NVQ Level 3 in Child Care or equivalent qualification (desirable)
* Experience of teaching and learning in KS2 (essential)
* Experience of teaching/supporting phonics and early reading (desirable)
* Experience of teaching/supporting pupils with Special Educational Needs or Disabilities (desirable)
* First Aid qualification (desirable) or willingness to obtain one (essential)
Professional Values & Practice:
* Uphold the Christian and bilingual ethos of the school (essential).
* Understand and respect social, cultural, linguistic, religious and ethnic backgrounds (essential).
* Able to build and maintain successful relationships with pupils, treating them equitably with respect and consideration (essential).
* Demonstrate a commitment and ability to raise educational achievement of all pupils and promote positive values, attitudes and behaviour (essential).
* Willing and able to improve own practices and methodologies through the utilisation of available information, tools, evaluation, observation and discussion with colleagues (essential).
* Understand the roles of parents and carers in pupils’ learning and development and demonstrate ability to liaise with parents and carers sensitively and effectively (essential).
If you are interested in this Teaching Assistant opportunity, interviews and lesson observations can be arranged immediately!
We are dedicated to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. You will have a safeguarding responsibility if appointed.
The successful candidate will be subject to enhanced clearance through the Disclosure and Barring Service and employment will be subject to references.
This post is not exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
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