Teaching Assistant

3 weeks ago


Leighton Buzzard, United Kingdom Academics Full time

We are actively recruiting Specialist Teaching Assistants to join a successful school in Leighton Buzzard to aid their SEN Team.

Your key responsibilities will be ensuring child protection, welfare and wellbeing of the children in your care.

This is a full time Teaching Assistant role Monday to Friday to start ASAP.

**Your key responsibilities will be to;**

**Support the pupils**
- Supervise and provide support for pupils, ensuring their safety, well-being and access to learning activities, using specialist skills/training/experience in behavioural management.
- Work with the teacher on lesson planning, evaluating and adjusting lesson plans as appropriate
- Establish productive working relationships with pupils, acting as a role model and setting high expectations.
- Receive and supervise pupils needing a one to one timetable
- Participate in assessing pupils to determine those in need of particular support
- Develop 1-to-1 mentoring arrangements with pupils and provide support for students with complex needs.
- Encourage pupils to interact and work co-operatively with others and engage all pupils in activities.
- Challenge and motivate pupils, promote and reinforce self-esteem.
- Promote positive reinforcement and provide positive feedback.

**Support the staff and teachers**
- Work under the guidance of teacher/curriculum lead to implement agreed work plans with individuals/groups, inside or outside the classroom
- Assist the teacher in the whole planning cycle of work plans and managing/preparing resources
- Occasionally supervise whole classes during short-term teacher absence
- Liaise with feeder schools and relevant bodies to gather pupil information.
- Work with the teacher to establish a safe and secure learning environment.
- Monitor pupils' response to learning and behaviour targets and accurately record achievement and progress as directed.
- Provide detailed and regular feedback to teachers on pupils' achievement, progress, problems, etc.
- Promote good pupil behaviour, encourage pupils to take responsibility for their own behaviour by assisting in the development and implementation of agreed behaviour management strategies.

Support for the curriculum
- Implement agreed learning activities/teaching programmes, adjusting activities according to pupil responses/needs.
- Work under guidance to provide support in addressing the needs of particular pupils who need help to overcome barriers to learning
- Be aware of and appreciate a range of activities, courses, organisations and individuals to provide support for pupils to broaden and enrich their learning.
- Prepare and use specialist equipment, plans and resources to support pupils.
- To be involved in whole school discussion regarding curriculum development as appropriate.

**Support the school**
- Be aware of and comply with policies and procedures relating to child protection, health and safety, behaviour management, confidentiality and data protection, reporting all concerns to the appropriate agreed person.

The school would like to meet applicants for an informal meet and tour of the school.


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