Level 1 Teaching Assistant – Permanent & Fixed Term available.

About this role

SUPPORT
FOR THE STUDENT

• Support
  and direct activities with either individuals or groups of students to
  ensure their safety and facilitate their physical, emotional and cognitive
  development;
• Help
  with care, personal hygiene and support of students;
• Contribute
  to the health and well-being of students;
• Establish
  and maintain good working relationships with individual students and
  groups;
• Promote
  and reinforce the students’ self-esteem and independence e.g. support in
  form time, AoW, unstructured time etc.;
• Encourage
  acceptance and inclusion of all students;
• To
  support groups of students as directed during formal public or internal
  school examinations;
• To
  assist students on work placements, educational visits, residential, and
  recreational activities as appropriate;
• To
  assist students with self-organisation and in the completion of homework
  tasks, in allocated periods during the school day;
• Drawing
  on knowledge of various forms of individual needs, to develop an
  understanding of the specific needs of the students within the school
  community;
• To
  liaise effectively with parents/carers as appropriate;
• To
  assume responsibility for designated keyworker role at School Action Plus
  and/or a named Statemented child.

SUPPORT
FOR THE TEACHER

• Help
  with the collation of Review/Annual Review meetings;
• Help
  with classroom resources and records;
• To
  implement learning programmes a directed by the class teacher – with
  individual or small groups;
• To
  monitor individual student’s needs and provide regular feedback to the
  teacher;
• Contribute
  to the management of student behaviour;
• To
  participate in the evaluation of the support programme;
• To
  contribute to the maintenance and development of the Learning Support
  Faculty.

SUPPORT
FOR THE CURRICULUM

• Support
  and reinforce the school curriculum including catch up KS3/GCSE work,
  literacy, numeracy activities in a 1:1 setting and in the classroom;
• Provide
  support for learning activities including enrichment activities during the
  normal school day;
• Support
  the use and development of ICT within the classroom;
• Support
  the smooth running of the Faculty by covering designated priority lessons
  of absent staff as and when required by the SENCo;
• To take
  responsibility for display and up keep of designated areas in the Faculty.

SUPPORT
FOR THE SCHOOL

• Maintain
  effective working relationships with colleagues and parents;
• Maintain
  and safeguard the confidential nature of student/teacher/home issues;
• Contribute
  to the maintenance of student safety and security, including break and
  lunchtime duties in the Faculty and taxi duties;
• Attend
  Faculty/Pastoral meetings as appropriate.
• Act as
  a First Aider after appropriate training