L3 Sen Teaching Assistant

Overview and Responsibilities**:Position**:L3 SEN Teaching Assistant **Location**:Smallfield, Surrey **Salary**:Actual salary £20,739.94 - £22,221.36 dependant on qualifications (£24,460.80 - £26,208 FTE) **Hourly Rate**:£11.76 - £12.60 per hour **Hours**:40 hours per week, 8.30am-4.30pm, flexibility within these hours is essential and you are required to work till 5pm one day a week for staff training and meetings. Term time only, plus inset days = 39 weeks **The Aurora Redehall**: Aurora Redehall School offers specialist primary education in a calm, nurturing environment, for children aged 6-11 years with communication difficulties typically associated with Autism spectrum conditions. We are linked to Aurora Caterham Education Centre and share the same Headteacher and Senior Management Team, however each site has its own Assistant Head and team of Teachers and TAs. Although the sites are linked students will not cross between the two as they operate separately. To take a virtual look around our school please click here: Aurora Redehall **Purpose of the role**: The purpose of the Teaching Assistant is to support the children with their learning and general wellbeing to ensure every child has the best opportunity to reach their full potential in a caring and safe environment. Where necessary this may include supporting with care needs from time to time as well as positive behaviour management adopting a tailored approach to the individual child. On occasion, the TA will support the Teacher with the overall running of the class and delivery of lessons including some team teaching and modelling of techniques. **Key roles and Responsibilities**: - Extensive safeguarding awareness. To take responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils according to the schools policies. - Monitor behaviour and concentration levels of the children and intervene to resolve issues. Adapt own behaviour and responses to any change or escalations in behaviour of the children. Ensure all documentation is completed correctly for records of incidents, health, behaviour etc. as necessary. - Promote spiritual, moral, social and cultural (SMSC) development and British values within the PSHE policy and across the whole school. - Establish a positive relationship with pupils in order to support them in feeling safe and enabling them to enjoy and learn. - Provide learning activities for individuals and groups of pupils under the direction of a teacher, differentiating and adapting learning programmes to suit the needs of allocated pupils. Reinforce learning concepts presented by teachers, model techniques and strategies as appropriate. - Select and adapt appropriate resources/methods to facilitate agreed learning activities. - Participate in the planning and evaluation of learning activities - Provide meaningful feedback on pupil attainment and progress, including next steps. The team at Redehall are a family, they believe in working together to achieve the best for their co-workers and students alike. Naturally passionate educators, the whole team strive to exceed expectations at every opportunity. Skills and Qualifications: - L3 award in supporting teaching and learning in schools or equivalent - GCSE pass above C (or 4 in the new GCSE system) in English and Maths - Ideally looking for someone with experience of supporting with language and communication skills and delivering individual and group speech and language interventions. - Previous experience of working as a L2 qualified or equivalent TA. - Experience of working in a special educational needs school environment is essential. - Team TEACH Training - desirable Benefits and Additional Information: - Life assurance - Pension plan - Perk Box - offering high street discounts - Employee assistance programme - Car lease scheme - Fully funded training and qualifications - Bike to work scheme - Health cash back plan **How to apply**: The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children. **The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer.