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Bsl Communications Assistant

2 weeks ago

St Helens, United Kingdom Rainhill High School Full time

**Post: BSL Learning Support Assistant**

**Grade: NJC Scale 7-11**

**Contract: 14.8 hrs per week FTE Thursday & Friday**

**Term time only plus 5 Inset days**

**Responsible to: SENDCO**

**Responsible for**:
**Purpose of the post**:
Provide specialist support in a specific area of the curriculum and to supervise groups/individuals for a session outside the main teaching area as required.

**Specific duties and Responsibilities**:
**Communication and learning support**
- To provide communication and learning support to SEND students at the school

(mainstream classes, including individuals, groups, or whole school (e.g. assemblies, productions, parents’ evenings.)
- To provide interpreting and other forms of communication support (e.g. note-taking, lip
- speaking) to individual and small groups of students conveying the content of any lesson, story, discussion or talk in a meaningful in a meaningful form, in accordance with the students’s Individual Education Plan.
- To adjust the communication support according to the needs of students, lesson aims, expectations of students etc., including filling in the gaps in student knowledge, relating new information to previous experience, working through a task with the student, repeating/reinforcing teacher information.
- To identify specific language and conceptual problems, which occur within the classroom and gain support from other relevant staff as necessary.
- To facilitate communication between the hearing impaired and deaf students and hearing students and adults.
- To provide appropriate communication support for assessments internal and external public exams.
- To provide pre and post sessions to support learning covered in mainstream classes

(with guidance from teachers.)

**Preparation**
- To ensure that you are familiar with the Individual Education Plan of the students you support.
- To discuss with the teacher, prior to the lessons, content of the lessons and expectations of students highlighting any problems, which may arise through the choice of language, presentation etc.
- To discuss with other support colleagues the most appropriate means of conveying the curriculum and other information and any difficulties which may arise during the lesson e.g. new vocabulary, concepts etc.
- To discuss with staff, the role of the classroom support worker and her/his interpreting support function.
- To prepare or modify materials to suit individual studnets, under the direction of the teacher.

**Supervision**
- To supervise students in carrying out tasks set by the teachers, enforcing any rules and guidelines relating to behaviour or discipline.
- To ensure studnets have correct hearing aid equipment and that it is functioning correctly.
- To supervise SEND studnets on a rota basis during breaks and lunchtimes.
- To supervise hearing impaired deaf students on visits and trips.
- To assist students with social and independence skills as appropriate.
- To assist the responsible member of staff when taking studnets home or to the hospital in the case of illness or accident.

**Planning, Recording and Reporting**
- To participate in the short term, medium term and long term planning process.
- To record student progress (against criteria set out in IEPs and curriculum plans) and pass this information to other members of the team.
- To contribute to annual reviews and reports to parents.

**Liaison**
- To meet regularly with colleagues within the school team
- To liaise closely with parents and with representatives of other agencies (under the guidance of the SENDCO). This may entail attendance at parents’ evenings, family support groups and annual review meetings.
- To liaise closely with other classroom support assistants in all phases of education to share skills.

**Professional Development**
- Participate in in-service training in school and externally.
- To undertake specific training for a classroom support worker arranged locally, regionally or nationally.
- To interpret in school team meetings and other school events
- To participate in the delivery of in-service training to mainstream colleagues on the role of classroom support assistant and positive communication environment

**Other**
- To be responsible for improving your own practice through observation, evaluation and discussion
- High expectations of all students; respect for their social, cultural, linguistic, religious and ethnic backgrounds; and commitment to raising their educational achievements
- To comply with the Data Protection Act and school policies and procedures
- The post holder may reasonably be expected to undertake other duties commensurate with the level of responsibility that may be allocated from time to time
- To comply with the school's Health and Safety Policy and associated safe working procedures and guidelines.
- To comply with the school's Comprehensive Equality Policy and to ensure that it is implemented within the service area of the post

**Additional Duties**