Teaching Assistant

Teaching Assistant

NJC Grade C - Part Time

30 hours per week x 40 weeks

£25,584 - £26,403 Pro Rata

(actual salary £18,296 - £18,881)

Key purpose of the role

Enable the Trust to realise its mission to ‘Transform lives, strengthen communities and make the world a better place by supporting students to learn and flourish.

Your responsibilities

• Live our mission and values every day

• Follow all safeguarding policies and procedures to protect students and maintain a culture in which students are protected and achieve the best outcomes

• Support effective learning as directed, adapting resources to remove barriers and meet individual needs

• Deliver pre-determined leaning and support programmes in class and in groups outside the normal classroom area

• Support students access to learning adapting and utilizing appropriate resources

• Monitor and evaluate and assess students as directed, recording progress and providing feedback to support continuous progress

• Assist with the supervision of pupils during break, lunchtimes and after school, offering structured activities as directed

• Attend to the welfare, administer medications and deliver personal care to students including those with special educations needs

• Support students to understand positive behaviours and school policies, reporting any challenges to the teacher

• Promote the inclusion and acceptance of all students recognizing and responding to individual needs

• Support students with exams and assessments as a scribe/reader as directed by the SENDCO

• Undertake tasks, including administrational activities as delegated

Grading Criteria

• Support colleagues to familiarise themselves with their role

• Follow instructions and procedures which may occasionally need to be adapted to resolve routine problems

• Use readily available information or assistance to resolve issues where the outcome may not be straight forward.

• Undertake work carried out within clearly defined rules and make decisions from a range of established options

• Make decisions which have a material effect on internal operations of their own or other departments.

• Work where tasks are interchanged but the program is not normally interrupted.

• Work requiring substantial physical effort with short periods of intense physical effort; or normal physical effort regularly in awkward postures.

• Work may be outside or inside but with exposure to moderate noise, heat or difficult conditions

• Potential risk to personal safety due to contact with clients