Teaching Assistant

Location: The Axis Academy, Lodgefields Drive, Crewe, Cheshire CW2 8TU, UK

**Salary**: £22,188 to £23,162

Contract Type: Permanent

Education Phases: Through School;
Job Roles: Teaching Assistant;

We pride ourselves on being a versatile, empathetic, and intuitive team which develops bespoke, personalised programmes of study to meet the needs of all of our students to provide them with the opportunity to maximise their potential, whatever that potential may be. As a specialist school this is a rare opportunity that will give you the chance to help develop an education system that truly focuses on the individual.

The Axis Academy is a beacon of outstanding practice in SEMH specialist provision. You will have the opportunity to grow with the school and truly make a difference to the most vulnerable young people in society.

We have numerous benefits available to our staff, please refer to the information available in our Application Pack.

**Key Priorities**
- Support the vision and direction of the school
- Support teachers and Learning Mentors to deliver an engaging specialist curriculum within the academy for an alternative pathway for KS4 pupils.
- Support and facilitate effective learning and teaching for KS4 pupils accessing the pathway.
- Deploy and create resources efficiently and effectively to meet specific objectives in line with the needs of the group.
- Ensure effective pastoral care and behaviour support for the KS4 group.
- Adopt a therapeutic approach, understanding the individual needs of the whole child.

**Teaching and Learning**

As a Teaching Assistant of The Axis Academy, you will support teaching staff to ensure effective teaching and learning within the KS4 pathway group, ensuring that you support pupil needs. He/she will:

- Support teaching staff to provide and maintain an environment and behavior for learning which promotes and secures good teaching, effective learning and high standards of achievement
- To support the curriculum and its assessment; work with the teachers and Learning Mentors to monitor and evaluate it in order to identify areas for improvement
- To support students with their emotional health and wellbeing taking a therapeutic approach
- To develop key relationships with students and parents and carers
- To engage in outreach to ensure all our students needs are met

**Partnership Working**
- Seek opportunities to invite parents and carers, into The Axis Academy to enrich student experience and to promote The Axis Academy’s value to the wider community
- Collaborate with staff, to actively promote the British values, academic, spiritual, moral, social, emotional and cultural well-being of students and their families

**Health and Safety / Child Protection**
- To help ensure that health and safety standards meet statutory requirements, monitoring health and safety matters within the school, particularly ensuring that all members of the staff take reasonable care for the health and safety of themselves and others
- To help ensure that Child Protection and Safeguarding procedures and Department of Health assessments of Children in Need are rigorously complied with, and that the welfare and health and safety of students are of prime consideration
- To promote the safety and well-being of students and staff
- To ensure good order and behaviour of students and staff

**CPD Opportunities**
- Engage with CPD opportunities in order to effectively fulfil your role and achieve the best possible outcomes for our students.

**Benefits**:

- A teaching day that ends at 14.30/14.40
- Small class sizes
- Access and support with training and CPD including further professional qualifications.
- Specialist training where required
- Cycle to work scheme
- Flexible and supportive approach to work
- Free lunch at school
- Free parking
- Nursery benefits
- Education Mutual - access to free face to face counselling, physiotherapy, nurse help-line, prescription service whenever you need it
- Perkbox

Desired Criteria

**Qualifications/ Education**
- Recognised behaviour / curriculum / SEMH qualification

**Experience**
- Experience of having worked with SEND/ SEMH children
- Minimum of 1 year working in a classroom setting with students

**Professional/Personal Skills**
- Evidence of coaching and/or mentoring
- Able to effectively resolve personnel issues
- Training and understanding of child protection
- Training and experience of working with students with a variety of mental health needs

**Knowledge and understanding**
- Knowledge and experience of current good practice and development in special education provision.
- Knowledge of how to promote independence for young people with complex needs.
- Knowledge of Mental Health needs.
- Behaviour Management training

Essential Criteria

**Qualifications/ Education**
- NVQ2 for Teaching Assistants or equivalent in related area
- GCSE Maths & English grade A* - C or level 2 or above of the National Qualification Framework
- Ability and wi