Teaching Assistant Apprenticeship

This is an exciting opportunity, to join our team and to support and develop the school in line with its shared values and improvement priorities. Doubletrees School provides a creative and ambitious centre of learning for over 90 pupils with a range of complex learning and communication needs aged from 2-19 years.

The school is a member of the Special Partnership Trust, an ambitious and inspiring collaboration of specialist provision in Cornwall, with a focus on excellence in learning for everyone.

**About the role**:
**Key Details**:
Working week - 32.75 hours per week.

Term time only role: 39 working weeks, holiday entitlement means paid for 45 weeks of the year.

**Salary**: £8.50 per hour.

Base: Doubletrees School

Start date: As soon as possible

**Apprenticeship Qualification**:Working towards the Level 3 Teaching Assistant Standard.

**Typical Duration**: 16 Months to complete.

**Training Provider -** LMP Education (rated 3rd best apprentice provider across the UK)

All learning/ coursework is delivered online via your LMP allocated tutor, alongside the full time job.

Requirements: GCSE Maths and English achieved to a grade C/4 or above, or Functional Skills Level 2.

**Main Duties**:

- Assist children in developing knowledge, skills and attitudes as defined by the curriculum, taking into account the learning support involved to aid the children to learn effectively
- Establish supportive relationships with pupils, encouraging individual development, acceptance, social integration, and development of self-esteem
- Carry out administration in relation to pupil progress, monitoring health, behaviour and general wellbeing and feeding back or adapting as appropriate
- Effectively use IT systems as required by the school
- Work independently with groups of children on specific tasks, under the overall responsibility of the Teacher
- Contribute to meetings with parents (which may be held outside of school hours), providing constructive feedback on pupil progress, achievement and behaviour where relevant
- Maintain confidentiality in regards to sensitive issues linked to home/pupil/staff/school
- Administer minor first aid where training has been undertaken.
- personal hygiene/self-care, for example toileting or changing
- specialist care, for example one-to-one feeding where training has been undertaken
- mobility needs, for example use of wheelchairs or hoists where training has been undertaken
- complex medical procedures, for example changing tracheostomy tubes, where training has been undertaken
- Assist with the safe physical and medical needs of pupils, including. Support in the management of pupils with challenging emotional and behavioural difficulties so as to prevent harm and disruption to the pupil or others
- Accompany children on educational visits as supervised by senior staff
- Carry out interventions as required
- Assist with duties relating to pupil swimming and sports activities/events where relevant
- Input into planning of lesson content led by teaching staff where relevant
- Ensure all teaching aids are readily available by monitoring stock levels of materials, checking for missing/damaged equipment, arranging for new supplies to be ordered where relevant
- Assist in preparing, using and maintaining relevant teaching resources, including wall displays and ensuring classrooms are left clean and tidy
- Provide pastoral care to pupils where relevant
- Deliver therapy to pupils such as physiotherapy or speech and language therapy as guided by professionals where training has been undertaken
- Raise any concerns in accordance with the school’s safeguarding policies and procedures
- Contribute to class meetings, staff meetings and school-based INSET
- Supervise pupils during break time, and plan and organise play time activities, where required

**General**:

- To ensure that pupils needs are prioritised and to have a clear sight of how this role impacts on the academy’s and the Trust’s pupils at all times
- To act as a Trust team member and provide support and cover for other staff where needs arise inclusive of occasional work at other sites within a reasonable travel distance
- To adhere to Trust values and behaviours
- To be aware of and adhere to all Trust policies and procedures