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Location: Effingham, SurreySalary: £23,210 - £24,818 actual salary dependant on qualifications) Plus £1000 Welcome bonus *Hours: 40 hours per week - Term Time only - Start time 8.15am - Finish time Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday 4.45pm. Thursday 5pm and Friday 4pm.
You must have the right to work in the UK - this school does not process sponsorships or visas.
School Staffing Solutions are looking to recruit Teaching Assistants to join a sucessful team at an SEN School in Surrey. The successful candidates will be supporting the teacher within the class.
Autistic students are aged between 11 - 16, they have associated behavioural and communication difficulties. Some pupils may hae multiple learning difficulties.
The Skills and Qualifications you Must have for this job:
- Experience working with SEN in an employed or voluntary setting??
- Teaching Assistant training or qualifications
- GCSE Maths and English Language qualification minimum Grade 4 or equivalent is essential.
- Understanding of the Safeguarding principles and Child Protection procedures.?
- Knowledge or experience of pupils with SEN or SEMH/ASD?
- Ability to provide consistent support to children
- The desire to put the child first and treat them as an individual?
- Be positive and creative in assisting to meet pupils’ individual needs?
- Be able to take part in the schools behaviour support approach, including physical intervention (accredited Team Teach) where necessary and always as a last resort.
- Ability to complete reports in a timely and accurate manner
Key duties:
- Take responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils according to the school’s policies, including safeguarding and PREVENT.
- Provide meaningful feedback on pupil behaviour, relationships and attitudes.
- Support positive behaviour and concentration levels of the children and adapt own behaviour and responses to any change or escalations in behaviour of the children.
- Establish a positive relationship with pupils in order to support them in feeling safe and enabling them to enjoy and learn.
- Promote and encourage independence and personal development and maintain high expectations of behaviour at all times and support in the achievement of this.
- Implement, and when appropriate, adjust learning activities as agreed with the teacher. Reinforce learning concepts presented by teachers
- Support learning by arranging/providing resources for lessons/activities under the direction of the teacher.
- Implement learning activities and experiences, appropriate to the class group, by supporting the delivery of a broad and balanced curriculum aiming at pupils achieving their full potential in all areas of learning. Pupils Attainment and Progress
Benefits:
- Life assurance
- Enhanced Pension Scheme
- * Welcome bonus is payable in 2 payments - 50% following successful completion of probation and 50% after one year service
- Perkbox - offering high street discounts.
- Employee assistance programme
- Car lease scheme
- Fully funded training and qualifications
- Bike to work scheme.
- Free membership to our Health cash back plan - Claim back money on services such as dental, optical, physio and many more.
Apply today by sending your cv.. we look forward to hearing from you!
School Staffing Solutions Recruitment Ltd is acting as an employment business for this position.
Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.
Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.
As a result of the volume of applications, If we have not contacted you within two weeks of your application being received, then regretfully your application will not be taken forward on this occasion.
