Sen Higher Level Teaching Assistant

**SEN Higher Level Teaching Assistant - Outstanding Royal School Manchester**

**Location: Cheadle Hulme, SK8 6RQ**

**Full-time equivalent salary: £27,394 - £28,278 per annum + benefits**

**Actual take home salary: £23,707 - £24,471 per annum + benefits**

**Hours of work: Mon to Fri, 8.30am - 4.30pm**

**Working pattern: Term time only (45 weeks), 37.5 hours per week**

**Role Summary**

Here at Seashell, we provide education and care for children and young adults with severe, profound and complex learning difficulties/disabilities, sensory impairments, communication disorders and autism.

Our Outstanding Royal School Manchester operates from a new state of the art school building based on our campus in Cheadle. With advanced resources and a dedicated team of Therapists, specialist Teachers and TAs, fantastic teaching and learning facilities, staff room, outdoor areas and swimming pool, it provides an excellent working and learning environment to be part of. Our students are aged between 4 and 19, and all follow an individual Seashell curriculum/ ECHP.

We are recruiting for a Higher Level Teaching Assistant ideally with SEN experience to join our expert school team.

Higher Level Teaching Assistants (HLTAs) are an integral part of the school team and perform a unique function that is split between supporting our Teachers with lesson planning and delivery, and providing strategic support across a number of classes to ensure they are resourced correctly with relevant reports and paperwork being kept up to date and compliant. If you are looking for a role that combines valuable contact/ classroom time with the opportunity to contribute to the wider development of school policies and strategies, then this could be the perfect opportunity for you.

**Role Overview**
- To complement the Teachers’ delivery of each individual learner’s curriculum and contribute to the development of other support staff, pupils and school policies and strategies.
- To work collaboratively with teaching staff and assist Teachers in the whole planning cycle and the management/preparation of classroom/teaching resources.
- To supervise whole classes during the short-term absence of Teachers with classes having no more than six learners.
- To support the Head of School in fulfilling the Schools KPI’s.
- Support the Head of School in the implementation of health and safety requirements for the school and ensure the correct processes and training is in place to establish a secure and safe environment for students attending school.

**Requirements**:

- Experience of working with SEN children and young people with complex learning difficulties including PMLD, MSI, sensory impairment or ASC
- Experience of working with and managing students who present with challenging behaviour
- Teaching qualification or willingness to achieve the HLTA qualification - strongly preferred
- Level 3 Teaching Assistant Diploma - essential
- GCSE English and Maths (grade C/grade 4 or above), or level 2 numeracy and literacy
- Good written and verbal communication skills, ability to write and maintain reports and student notes and communicate effectively with parents/carers/other professionals
- Ability to work as part of a wider multi-disciplinary team
- Ability to organise, support and co-ordinate group or individual activities
- Knowledge of communication strategies for non-verbal learners
- Previous experience moving and handling service users who have a range of physical abilities, in a variety of settings including classroom, gym, pool areas, residential units and some restricted spaces

**Our benefits**

Life assurance, employee assistance and wellbeing programmes, on site gym, cycle scheme, long service awards, employee engagement forum, free parking and a beautiful campus with fantastic facilities all on one site.

We offer good career development opportunities with performance related pay to progress your salary depending on qualifications, training and experience

**About Seashell**
- Seashell Trust runs an Outstanding (Ofsted) special School, and a specialist College together with seventeen on-site residential homes for children and young people with complex learning disabilities, physical disabilities and multisensory impairments._
- We value our employees and recognise the need to recruit, retain and develop highly skilled and committed talent who share our vision and values_
- This charity is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment._
- Our vision is for the children and young people in our care to be safe, happy and to achieve the best possible outcomes so that they are valued and valuable members of their communities._

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £23,707.00-£24,471.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-sit