Teaching Assistant

6 months ago

Yeovil, United Kingdom Fiveways School Full time

**JOB DESCRIPTION**

**Job Title**: Teaching Assistant

**Grade and Salary Range**: Grade 14, £11.98-£12.38

**Responsible To**: Headteacher and appropriate Teacher

**Purpose of the Job**

This job description is directed towards a Teaching Assistant role within Fiveways (SLD) School. To assist the Headteacher and teachers in the development and implementation of a programme of work and in the provision of a stable, caring and supportive learning environment, which enables pupils to achieve their full learning potential and facilitates their social and moral development.

There is a special needs input to support pupils **presenting with Severe Learning Difficulties. Pupils may not be readily engaged** in activities. Support is both on a one-to-one basis and in groups, to pupils with **substantial** disability, learning difficulties or behavioural problems.

**Main Responsibilities and Duties**
- **Support the teaching and learning processes.**_ Typically, the job will include all, or most of the following elements, under the **instruction** of the teacher:

- Learning support is delivered individually and in groups through a range of tasks, mainly:

- Supporting and directing literacy and numeracy tasks, clarifying and explaining instructions.
- Focus support in areas needing improvement, both academic and social.
- Work with and support pupils to ensure they are able to use ICT and other specialist equipment to enhance their learning.
- Motivate and encourage pupils to concentrate on and fulfil the tasks set.
- Undertake learning activities with pupils of varying abilities to ensure differentiation and access to the curriculum.
- Seek to ensure the promotion and reinforcement of pupils self-esteem, appropriate levels of effort and behaviour and to guide pupils to become independent learners.
- Contribute to the assessment of pupils’ learning, in particular with regard to Literacy, Numeracy, Science and ICT skills.
- Contribute to the implementation of the National, 16+ and/or Foundation Curriculum and specific individual pupil targets.
- **Assist the teaching staff in the development of learning strategies, with the provision of teaching and learning resources and in the preparation and maintenance of a safe, secure and suitable learning environment. **_Typically, the job will include all, or most of the following elements:

- Assist in the development, monitoring and evaluation of programmes of work.
- Upkeep of data files, catalogue resources, maintain inventories, photocopy, record TV programmes and use IT systems for administration and educational purposes.
- Contribute to and assist in the development and monitoring of systems for review and recording of pupils progress.
- Assist in the preparation, organisation and maintenance of classrooms and their equipment, including assistance with and creation of displays, make basic visual aids, art and craft materials, mount and display pupils work.
- Assist teachers in timetabling of lessons and curriculum as required.
- Assist in the preparation of educational visits and accompany pupils.
- Attend and contribute to school staff meetings and in-service training events within contracted hours or outside normal hours by agreement.
- To assist with the delivery of some activities that lie outside the normal school day (ie, camps, extended school day trips).
- To drive the minibus and take responsibility whilst on the bus.
- **To provide care and supervision of pupils within the classroom, within the school and outside of the school. **_Typically, the job will include all, or most of the following elements:

- Supervise and support pupils using cloakrooms, showers and toilet facilities.
- To engage and encourage pupils during playtime activity and support them when entering and leaving using school transport.
- Assist in the supervision of Standard Assessment Tasks and tests/assessments as directed.
- Escort pupils to school or parental transport, home or to hospital as necessary.
- Assist pupils eating, in a controlled environment. To carry out structured feeding programmes using a variety of specialist equipment involving pupils with special dietary requirements and/or tube feeding.
- Develop an understanding of and provide for pupils’ specific personal needs to ensure a safe learning environment. This may include providing for pupils’ hygiene/medical and personal care needs, support and assistance to the pupil in respect of toileting. Some pupils may also need the emergency administration of specific medical procedures.
- To support and assist pupils with independent mobility programmes.
- To assume responsibility and supervision of whole classes for periods in the absence of the teacher, if such periods are to be extended (whole days) this would only be when all other possibilities have been exhausted. In such circumstances access to a designated teacher would be identified. This would not be expected in the case of inexperienced TAs.
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