Parklands Primary School Havering Road, Romford, Essex RM1 4QX Email: officeparklands.havering.sch.uk Website: www.parklands.havering.sch.uk Tel: 01708 743404 Head Teacher: Mr S Stevens Teaching Assistant Hours: 32.5 hrs per week (full time)/39 weeks per year (Term time only) Salary: Grade 1/2, spinal point 2 -5, depending on experience. Pro rata salary of £21,210 - £22,122 p.a. (FTE £27,345 - £28,521 p.a.) Contract: Fixed term Start Date: 18th March 2024 Required, an experienced, conscientious and committed Teaching Assistant to assist with the day-to-day organisation within the classroom as well as supporting pupils with special educational needs in their learning. Parklands Primary School is a high achieving school and we aim to enable our pupils to achieve and develop as kind, caring individuals. The successful candidate will be hard working, experienced and enthusiastic. Experience of working with children with SEND in a school environment is essential. The key skills include: good behaviour management adaptability & flexibility the ability to interact with pupils to impact on teaching and learning you will need to be flexible, enthusiastic and motivated you will need to be able to support the class teacher effectively you will need to adhere to each schools' individual behaviour policies be willing to take on new ideas and use your initiative have excellent interpersonal skills, be keen to learn, a hard worker and team-player have the energy and creativity to make individual and small group learning experiences challenging and supportive of rapid progress to enable children to reach their full potential have high aspirations, be highly motivated, and enjoy the privilege of working with all children, across the age range, helping them to succeed have excellent literacy and numeracy skills Working with the support of qualified teachers you will: provide learning opportunities to meet the needs of individual learners, working with them 1:1 throughout the day work with children and young people who have complex needs, providing an appropriate level of emotional and physical support where necessary provide support to pupils who have communication difficulties assist in the development of pupil support plans lead small group activities to enhance the knowledge and skills of groups of learners who face similar challenges lead, assess and record the outcomes of interventions to evidence impact of and inform next steps, in discussion with the teacher Please apply online. Closing date for applications: 4th April 2025 at 12pm If you do not hear from us within 5 days, your application has not been successful.