1:1 Learning Support Assistant

**1:1 Learning Support Assistant**

**Location**: Surbiton, Surrey

**Salary**: Competitive

**Start Date**: As soon as possible

**The role**

This role will involve working 1:1 with a pupil in Year 2 at Surbiton High Boys’ Preparatory School in accordance with his Educational and Healthcare Plan. This will involve liaising with Occupational Therapy (OT) and Speech and Language Therapy (SLT), implementing a sensory diet throughout the school day, supporting literacy and mathematical skills in the classroom and providing support outside the classroom to facilitate positive interaction with peers.

**Reporting Line**:Head of Support (SENCO)

**Secondary Reporting Line**: Head of the Boys 'Preparatory School

**Tenure**: Temporary, Part Time (20 hours per week, Monday to Friday. 36 weeks of the year)

**Key Responsibilities**:

- To care and support - attend to the day to day needs of the pupil, inside and outside the classroom, by:

- Provision of personal and social support
- Promoting effective pastoral care, under guidance, and liaising with colleagues to provide accurate records to provide the basis for home/school liaison and contacts with other agencies
- Reporting concerns about the pupil’s ability to access the lessons, identifying solutions, to the teacher
- Assisting educational and therapeutic professionals in their delivery of specialist support programmes
- Assisting with the assessment by the teacher of the individual pupil’s development through observation, creation and retrieval of records, discussion with colleagues and teachers
- To provide support to the individual pupil as directed:

- Follow work plans approved by the teaching staff, provide direct support for the learning of an individual pupil, to achieve defined targets in their Education Health Care Plan (EHCP) and in class plans through:

- Activities, interventions, differentiation, empathetic and sympathetic listening, direct guidance and the provision of appropriate positive feedback
- Supporting the emotional and educational development of the pupil
- Understanding that the pupil needs support, but also enable independence where possible
- Working with the pupil in accordance with the Education Health Care Plan
- To provide classroom support - attend to the day to day needs of the pupil, inside and outside the classroom, by:

- Provision of personal, social, welfare and emotional support
- Having high expectations and ambitions for the pupil
- Working closely with the teachers and Learning Enrichment Department to ensure a consistent approach to using strategies, differentiating work and reporting on outcomes
- Reporting concerns about progress, identifying solutions, to the teacher
- Promoting social, emotional and behavioural standards
- Working closely with parents to ensure a consistent provision at home and at School
- To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team including teachers, therapists and other professionals
- To build and maintain successful relationships with all pupils, treat them with respect and consideration and demonstrate and promote the positive values, attitudes and behaviour that is expected from the pupils
- To respect pupils’ social, cultural, linguistic, religious and ethnic backgrounds and be committed to raising their educational achievement
- To maintain and develop knowledge of ICT and use to help advance pupils’ learning.
- To maintain and develop understanding of own specialist area to support pupils’ learning, and contribute effectively and with confidence to the classes in which one is involved.
- To liaise sensitively and effectively with parents and carers, recognising their roles in pupils’ learning.
- To manage challenging behaviour under the supervision of classroom teachers and support the School’s behaviour policy and practice
- To attend meetings as required
- To undertake relevant training and development, as required and effectively use learned skills to benefit pupils
- To improve one’s own practice, including through observation, evaluation and discussion with colleagues.
- To safeguard at all times confidentiality of information relating to pupils and staff
- To carry out any such duties as may be reasonably requested

**Qualifications and Experience**
- Demonstrable levels of numeracy & literacy
- Experience of supporting children who have additional needs. This may include supporting children with EHC plans
- Experience of working with children or young people in a paid/unpaid capacity.

**Knowledge and Skills**
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong organizational, administrative and ICT skills
- The ability to inspire, motivate and support pupils and colleagues
- Knowledge & understanding of behaviour management strategies
- Understanding of the importance of confidentiality of sensitive information
- Familiarity with the needs of pupils with learning differences would be an advantage, including:

- ASD
- Social, Communication difficulti