Teaching Assistant

3 months ago

StainesuponThames, United Kingdom Green Corridor Full time

**Job Title**:Teaching Assistant

**Reporting to**: Tutor

**Grade/Salary**: £17,745 + Holiday pay

**Hours**:32.5 hours per week, term time only (Monday - Thursday 9 - 4.30, Friday 9-2)

**Contract **Permanent

**Probationary Period**:6-month probationary period

**Location**:Main Road Nurseries, Stanwell Moor Road, TW19 6BS (Close to T5 Heathrow)

**Background of the Role**

Green Corridor is a small, dynamic UK registered Charity, working to improve the lives of 16-25 year olds with SEN through our horticulture catering and functional skills programmes. We have over fifteen years of experience developing and implementing projects across West London and surrounding counties to improve local communities and the green spaces that they rely on. We currently run a section 41 Post-16 provision with about 50 learners on roll.

**Summary of the Role**

Our small, successful charity runs horticulture and catering programmes to help young people, with Special Educational Needs and learning disabilities, to gain confidence, life skills and social support, alongside nationally recognised qualifications.

**Equality & Diversity**

**Safer Recruitment**

**Specific Duties and Responsibilities of the Role**

Supporting Young People
- To work with the tutor to establish an appropriate learning environment.
- To work with the tutor on lesson planning, evaluating and adjusting lesson/work plans as appropriate.
- To monitor and evaluate learners’ responses to learning activities through observations and planned recording of achievement against learning objectives.
- To use specialist skills to support learners’ learning such as PECS, Makaton, symbols and iPads.
- To assist with the development, implementation and evaluation of learning programmes and individual work plans.
- To prepare and assist in the preparation of the classroom, resources and equipment.
- To establish productive working relationships with learners acting as a role model and setting high expectations.
- Communicating with learners with varying degrees of speech and language difficulties, using communicative system/equipment where necessary.
- To promote inclusion and acceptance of all learners within the classroom and across Green Corridor.
- To support learners consistently whilst recognising and responding to their individual needs
- To encourage individual learners to interact and work co-operatively with others whilst engaging in activities.
- To promote independence and employ strategies to recognise and acknowledge achievement and self-reliance.
- To provide feedback to learners in relation to progress and achievement and to provide accurate, evidenced and objective feedback and reports to the tutor.
- To be responsible for keeping and updating records with the tutor and other staff, contributing to reviews as requested.
- To liaise with specialists (such as SALT, OT and Physio) and follow their advice for safety, learning and therapy programmes, as appropriate.

**Wellbeing and Safeguarding**
- Meet with parents and carers as part of maintaining positive relationships and the full implementation of the Green Corridor’s values and ethos.
- To promote Green Corridor’s values, positive attitudes and good learner behaviour, dealing promptly with conflicts and incidents in line with established policies and procedures, encouraging learners to take responsibility for their own behaviour.
- To supervise learners on visits, trips and out-of-school activities as required.
- To support breaktime/lunches and lunchtime supervision within employed hours.
- Administer first aid as appropriate.
- To carry out Team Teach/MAPA if required.

**Professional Development**
- To participate in 30 hours CPD per year specific to the needs of learners and Green Corridor, including working towards appropriate qualifications needed to perform your role.
- To keep your own individual Professional Development Plan up to date.

**Other duties**
- Undertake any other task identified as being necessary to fulfil contract requirements or the requirements of an individual support.
- The post holder will be required to undertake other appropriate activities related to achieving the organisations objectives, as determined by the CEO or your line manager.
- **Essential**_
- Excellent communication skills, both oral and written
- Proactive, self-motivated, can-do attitude
- Enhanced DBS clearance for Child and Adult Workforce
- **Desirable**_
- Working with young people with learning difficulties
- Working as a 1:1 TA/LSA for a young person with SEN
- Mentoring and support experience
- Working with groups of young people in holiday / after school clubs
- Experience of working for a charity/voluntary organisation
- Appropriate Prevent and Safeguarding Training
- Accreditation or qualification in Special Educational Needs
- Able to use Makaton, Widget, PECS, Proloqo2go
- Clean driving license (we are not easily accessible by public transport)
- IT literate: Microsoft Word, Exc

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