Job details
Job role
* Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
Part time
Contract type
Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
£24,104.00 Annually (FTE) Prorated £18,110
Learning Support Assistant job summary
The purpose of this role is to provide support for those students with Special Educational Needs and help raise their educational achievement. The role will be committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young people.
Key Responsibilities of the role:
1. Promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young persons for whom you are responsible and with whom you come into contact.
2. Work under the direction of the AVP Inclusion (SENCo) to support children with identified needs in their educational and social/behavioural development. This may involve working with individuals, small groups, or the whole class.
3. Liaise with teachers regarding planning and differentiation of work for students with SEND.
4. Support the provision plans of students with EHCP's, particularly those with High Needs Funding.
5. Facilitate students' access to the curriculum by clarifying and explaining tasks and instructions, developing understanding through questioning, providing differentiated resources, helping with personal organisation and planning of work, and encouraging independent learning skills.
6. Promote positive standards of behaviour by keeping students on task, developing positive relationships, modelling good behaviour, and supporting the school behaviour policy.
7. Support the implementation and delivery of specific programmes e.g., speech and language, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, etc.
8. Deliver interventions to support student progress e.g., reading, comprehension, spelling, handwriting groups, etc.
9. Undertake support activities outside of lessons e.g., break/lunch time supervision as required.
10. Accompany students on off-site activities and external provisions e.g., school trips, placements.
11. Provide additional support for students who have alternative access arrangements including acting as invigilator, scribe, reader, etc., for internal and external exams.
12. Actively promote all aspects of the school's SEND provision in a positive way.
13. Carry out other duties reasonably deemed to be within the responsibility as requested by the Principal.
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 inform us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands, or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job. CVs are not accepted.
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