Teaching Assistant

3 weeks ago

Darwen, United Kingdom Aldridge Education Full time

**JOB DESCRIPTION & SPECIFICATION**

**Academy**:Darwen Vale High School
**Job Title**: Library and Reading Intervention TA (Level 2)

**Reporting to**:SENDCO / Assistant Principal English

**Contract Basis **Permanent, Term Time plus INSET days (39 weeks)
37 hours per week
SCP04 - SCP05 (£21,189 - £21,575 FTE)
(Actual Salary: £18,144 - £18,474)

**Overall Purpose of the Role**:
To be responsible for supporting the SEND Department with reading interventions. To support the Assistant Principal of English and Literacy Lead with managing the School
Library.

**Key responsibilities**
- Supporting the senior leadership team and staff in implementing a vision for excellence by providing a level of service to all stakeholders based on high standards.
- Supporting the senior leadership team and colleagues in creating a climate hospitable to education in order that safety, a co-operative spirit and other foundations of fruitful interaction prevail.
- Cultivating leadership in others so that students and colleagues assume their parts in realising the school vision.
- Providing a level of service which enables teachers to teach and students to learn.
- Provide a high standard of support and care for SEND students and their families

**Teaching Assistant duties**
- Provide support for students with special education and disability needs, ensuring their safety and access to learning activities.
- Establish constructive relationships with students and interact with them according to individual needs.
- Encourage students to interact with others and engage in activities led by the teacher.
- Set challenging and demanding expectations and promote self-esteem and independence.
- Adapt or modify materials and resources to ensure full access to a broad and balanced curriculum.
- Support the students as part of a planned inclusion programme and provide intervention strategies and programmes as requested.
- Deliver intervention and support strategies for specific students as directed by the

**JOB DESCRIPTION & SPECIFICATION**
teacher.
- Provide feedback to students in relation to progress, achievement and attainment under guidance of the teacher.
- Assist with the development and implementation of Educational Health Care

Pans/Behaviour Plans and Personal Care programmes.
- Create and maintain a purposeful, orderly and supportive environment, in accordance with lesson plans and assist with the display of students’ work.
- Provide detailed and regular feedback to teachers on student’s achievement, progress and issues in a suitable format.
- Provide advice and support to teachers and other support staff as the most effective methods of support for students with learning needs.
- Liaise with the complex needs service as requested to receive and disseminate advice given to effectively support the students across curriculum areas.
- Monitor students’ responses to learning activities and take responsibility for accurately recording achievement/progress and reviewing records and systems as directed.
- Promote good student behaviour, dealing promptly with conflict and incidents in line with established policy and encourage students to take responsibility for their own behaviour.
- Liaise sensitively and effectively with parent/carer(s); and participate in feedback with parent/carer(s) under the teacher’s supervision.
- Assist the SENDCO in the development, monitoring and review of the students EHCP.
- Support the teacher by contributing to the delivery of local and national learning strategies and recording achievement, progress and providing feedback to the teacher.
- Attend specific training and meetings as and when required or requested by the SENDCO.
- Provide clerical/admin. Support e.g. photocopying, typing, filing, money, administer coursework invigilation of routine tests and examinations as required.
- Undertake structured and agreed learning activities/teaching programmes, adjusting activities according to student responses.
- Undertake programmes linked to local and national learning strategies e.g. literacy, numeracy, reading strategies, recording achievement and progress and feeding back to the teacher.
- Prepare, maintain and use equipment/resources required to meet the lesson plans/relevant learning activity and assist students in their use.
- Be aware of and support difference and ensure all students have equal access to opportunities to learn and develop.
- Accompany teaching staff and students on visits, trips and out of school activities as required and take responsibility for a group under the supervision of the teacher
- Participate in supervisory duties in accordance with the duty rota schedules to support the culture within the organisation.

**JOB DESCRIPTION & SPECIFICATION**

**Library Duties**:

- Maintain an accurate and reliable catalogue and lending system
- Shelving books
- Cataloguing new library books
- Support with selecting, purchasing, organising and promoting learning resources which su

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