Pupil Support Assistant

3 months ago

Coupar Angus, United Kingdom Perth & Kinross Council Full time

LOCATION:
Coupar Angus Primary School Coupar Angus, PH13 9AS

SALARY:
£15,787 - £17,305 per year

CONTRACT TYPE:
Fixed Term

POSITION TYPE:
Term Time Part Time

HOURS:
27.5 hours per week

£15,787 - £17,305 (27.5 Hours per week, Term-time only)
Coupar Angus Primary School

You will support children with additional support needs (ASN) to access the curriculum.

As our Pupil Support Assistant, other duties that you will carry out will be to:

- Take responsibility for aspects of support for pupils individually or in groups settings.
- Take forward individual programmes e.g. speech and language therapy, Individual education Plans, personal care including toileting.
- Carry out intimate care routines, assist colleagues to become familiar with routines; moving and handling.
- Assist pupils with eating and drinking routines.
- Supervise pupils in the playground, at out of school events or activities (within the school day) and moving around the school.
- Take forward aspects of positive behaviour management programmes, individual education plans and child support plan targets.
- Accompany pupils to social events, transition settings and independent living activities.
- Prepare materials for individual pupils e.g. Boardmaker, TEACCH materials.
- Progress and develop pupils’ ICT programmes e.g. Switch technology, Sensory programmes.
- Ensure awareness of school procedures for Child Protection, risk management, equalities and confidentiality.
- Contribute to quality assurance and self-evaluation processes.

**Requirements**:
Knowledge & Experience
- You must have experience of working with children and young people with ASNs.
- Ideally you will hold a Professional Development Award in Support for Learning, SVQ qualifications and SSCC registration.
- You must contribute to IEPs and evaluation, recording and reporting.
- You must support transition.
- You must organise materials.
- You will support children and young people and have a willingness to undertake intimate care programmes.
- You will undertake training relating to specific medical conditions - eating and drinking, epilepsy.
- You will have the ability to prepare specific materials e.g. Boardmaker.
- You must have an awareness of assessment routines.
- You must have a good working knowledge of ICT, augmentative communication.
- Ideally you will have experience in managing small groups under supervision in a range of settings and the ability to work in a 1:1 or small group setting under supervision.
- Ideally you will have a working knowledge of risk assessment, child protection procedures and equalities duties.
- Ideally you will be able to accompany children in transport and assist with the de-escalation of behaviour incidents.

Customer Care
- You must be sensitive to the individual needs of pupils.
- You must respect the confidentiality of pupils and staff.

Health & Safety
- You must be able to cope with the demands of the job and attend on a regular basis.

Equality & Dignity at Work
- You must be able to treat pupils, colleagues, parents and the community in accordance with the Council’s policies on equalities and dignity at work.

Communications
- You must be able to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
- You must be able to communicate and collaborate effectively with colleagues and pupils.
- You must work successfully with a range of professionals e.g. therapists.

Flexibility
- Ideally you will be willing to be involved in school community life and whole school events/projects.

Achievement of Results
- You must show a readiness to participate in self evaluation and Employee Review and Development (ERD) processes.
- Ideally you will be willing to extend your skills into more specialist areas.

Quality
- Your input to the individual child, parents and school will be of a high standard.
- You will contribute to self evaluation processes.

Team Working
- You must demonstrate effective participation in a team situation.

Decision Making & Problem Solving
- You must be able to work both under own initiative and as a member of a team.

**The Individual**:
Please APPLY ONLINE. Facilities are available at all public libraries in Perth and Kinross. If you have a disability and require reasonable adjustments, please call 01738 475555 to discuss.

As part of our safer recruitment measures, Perth & Kinross Council carries out rigorous checks on the right to work in the UK, qualifications, employment history, including references, and fitness to undertake the post.

A healthy work life balance is important to Perth & Kinross Council and we provide supportive management and flexible working arrangements to help you achieve a healthy work life balance. You will have access to training and support for continued professional development.

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