Role: SEN Teaching Assistant
Location: Reddish Hall School, Stockport
5 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Contract: Permanent, Term Time Only
To provide a high quality education support service to students and in accordance with company policies, procedures and practices and the standards set by the regulatory body.
To support the class teacher/tutor in order to ensure the delivery of a high quality education for all students.
To support the class teacher and/or tutor to ensure that all relevant education policies and procedures are implemented in full.
To promote, in line with company policies, the physical, educational and moral development of the students.
This includes Behaviour Support Profile (BSP), Individual Risk Assessment, Individual Education Plan, Communication Profile, and Pastoral Support Plan as required and appropriate.
To work collaboratively with the class teacher and/or class tutor to adequately plan to ensure the safety of students, in line with risk assessments, while both on and off site.
To produce appropriate and effective resources/teaching aids at the request of, and following a brief provided by, the class teacher and/or tutor.
To contribute as a member of the school's multi-professional team, ensuring good working relationships with colleagues.
To support the care team through participation in the morning routine for students. This includes supporting the children in preparation for school and personal care as appropriate.
Work with and manage challenging behaviour, enabling students to develop from needing external control, to developing self control.
To make, use and keep records in accordance with company policies and procedures and standards set by the regulatory body.
To keep up-to-date with specified subject area, educational practice and autism-related information.
Safeguard all students and ensure their safety and wellbeing.
Communicate effectively with care staff to ensure a consistent approach and to provide a daily link between school and home.
Liaise with staff from other departments to provide a consistent approach to all aspects of student education and care.
Maintain regular communication and liaison both informally and in meeting times, ensuring a consistent approach to education and care of students.
Reddish Hall School is an independent specialist day school for boys and girls aged from 5 to 18, catering for pupils with social emotional and mental health difficulties, with a high proportion of pupils who have a diagnosis of ASC.
Our dedicated team work together to ensure successful outcomes for pupils who often arrive at the school with a troubled view of education and life.
We pride ourselves in steering pupils in the right direction, nurturing aspiration to progress them both academically and socially to encourage them to take pride in their achievements.
Socially, we build confidence in our students, so they are able to have a greater understanding of the wider community in which they live.
Acorn Education is the UK's leading independent provider of specialist education for vulnerable pupils.
As part of Outcomes First Group, we are leading our sector in setting and delivering new approaches that provide measurable outcomes for those in our care.
Why join Acorn Education?
Life Assurance
Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions
Your Wellbeing Matters – access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks
And a market-leading benefit offering through our Flexible Benefits Platform, Vista, enables you to choose the package that's right for you, including:
A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
100's of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
Cycle to Work Schemes
Electric Car Purchase Scheme
Critical illness cover
Family Growth Support - inclusive benefits package covering enhanced maternity and paternity leave, along with paid fertility treatment support.
We place the outcomes of the pupils in our services at the heart of everything we do, so you'll wake every day in the knowledge that your role will have a significant positive impact on the lives of others.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils. All applicants will be subject to social media checks and successful applicants to a fully enhanced DBS.