Part Time Teaching Assistant

**At OFG, we work smarter so you can spend more time doing what makes you happy**

Become a Part Time Teaching Assistant at Castle Garden School part of Options Autism and start working towards yours.

**Salary: **£10.50 per hour
**Contract: **Permanent, Term Time Only

**Hours: TBC**

Castle Garden School is a brand new school, part of Options Autism. Castle Garden School is a school for 7 to 14 year old girls and boys with autism, learning disabilities and/or complex needs. Our school is set in a great location close to the M3 and withincommutable distance of all network links.

Our aim is to help pupils excel by providing a structured, nurturing approach, with students accessing a broad, balanced, engaging and extraordinarily rich curriculum.

**The opportunity**

Enjoy a rewarding education career and have a real impact on children’s lives. Join an amazing team making our schools and classrooms supportive, enriching places where vulnerable children and young people achieve far more than they ever expected.

As a Teaching Assistant, you will connect directly with the brilliant children and young people we care for, helping to make sure they get the very best from their education. Each individual has so much potential, and they will rely on you to guide theirlearning journeys.

You will help prepare learning materials and run classroom activities, with plenty of hands-on experience and some supervision too. You will take responsibility for their emotional and physical needs, supporting them to develop as individuals and engagewith the world.

Supporting children with complex Social and Emotional Mental Health, Autism and other complex needs is important and rewarding work, and you will benefit from the tremendous support offered by our hugely experienced teams. As you help our children and youngpeople achieve real and significant progress, you will enjoy having a direct, positive impact on their developing lives.

**Who we are looking for**

You don’t need any experience to join our team. If you come from hospitality, the army, outdoor activity centres or an office-based job but are eager to help vulnerable children and young people to live happy, fulfilling lives, this is the role for you.We will provide you with full training and development to succeed within your role.

You will be adaptable and ready to work in a variety of classroom roles, both indoors and outside according to individual need. Taking a responsive and caring approach, you may be running classroom activities, leading outdoor experiences or supervising childrenas they explore further afield.

**Why join Options Autism?**

**Benefits**

**Your health and wellbeing are important to us, so you’ll get an exceptional reward package including**:

- Life Assurance
- Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions
- “Your Wellbeing Matters” - access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks

**And a market-leading benefit offering through our Flexible Benefits Platform, Vista, enables you to choose the package that’s right for you, including**:

- A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
- 100’s of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
- Cycle to Work Schemes
- Electric Car Purchase Scheme
- Critical illness cover

And that’s not all, we place the outcomes of the children and vulnerable young adults in our services at the heart of everything we do, so you’ll wake every day in the knowledge that your role will have a significant positive impact on the lives of others.

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