Job Title: Teaching Assistant
The following information aims to provide potential candidates with a better understanding of the requirements for this role.
Location: UK-Worcestershire-Kidderminster
Overview: Teaching Assistant This school
Location : Torton, Kidderminster
Contract Type : Full-time, Permanent, Term time only
Hours : Full-time, 40 hours per week
Hourly Rate :£12.37 - £13.49 per hour
Annual Salary: £22,102.72 - £24,103.93 actual salary
The Group
The Group is an innovative provider of education and care for children, young people and adults with special educational needs and disabilities.
About the school
Are you ready to make a transformative impact in the lives of young people with SEMH needs and associated challenging behaviour linked to Autistic Spectrum Conditions? Do you have the ambition and drive to inspire the next generation who have already experienced a turbulent time prior to joining us? Can you be their stability and their champion? If so, we want you to join our dynamic and collaborative team at this school!
This School is a beautiful, purposeful school set in a 20 acre site with huge potential as we celebrate our one year anniversary since opening. We want to offer the best for our young people and this means enhancing our curriculum offer and ensuring our young people have access to a wide range of pathways to allow them to move to the next stage of their development.
The role:
As one of our new Teaching Assistants, your role will be to support our children with their learning and general wellbeing to ensure every child has the best opportunity to reach their full potential in a caring and safe environment. Where necessary this may include supporting with care needs from time to time as well as positive behaviour management adopting a tailored approach to the individual child.
You will be expected to establish a warm, caring and supportive relationship with pupils in order to support them feeling safe and enabling them to enjoy and learn during their time at the School, and to promote and encourage independence and personal development in pupils and maintain high expectations of behaviour at all times.
You will support the class teacher and contribute to providing high quality, challenging and differentiated educational activities and experiences through supporting the teaching of a broad and balanced curriculum aiming at pupils achieving their full potential in all areas of learning
Responsibilities:
Experience & Qualifications:
Workingtowards Level 2 award in Support work in schools or an equivalentis desirable
GCSE Maths and English Level 2/C or above qualification is essential.
Understanding of the Safeguarding principles and Child Protection procedures.
some experience of working with SEMH learners with complex needs and challenging behaviour in a school environment
Commitment to the role, the desire to put the child first and treat them as an individual
Be positive and creative in meeting pupils needs
Full clean driving licence
Qualifications:
Whats on offer?
Be part of our successful team and also benefit from a generous package that includes:
Full training and continued support
Opportunity to gain qualifications, which will be funded by us!
Perkbox subscription
Life assurance and Enhanced pension scheme
Car lease scheme
Bike to work scheme
Free parking
Free membership to our Health cash back plan - Claim back money on services such as dental, optical, physio and many more.
Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.
The Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care andis a disability confident and equal opportunities employer
This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled.
Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.
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