Teaching Assistant

**Teaching Assistant**:Posted on 17 January 2025
- Salary £25584 pro rata
- Contract Term Time - Fixed Term

**Location**:
Russell Martin Foundation, Brighton

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**Job Summary**:
- Job reference

orbis/TP/490/43725- Positions available

1- Working hours

Monday
- Friday 8.00-4.00- Closing date

31 January 2025- Job category

Support Staff - Education- Organisation

Brighton & Hove City Council- Directorate

BHCC: External

**Job introduction**:
**Job Title**: Alternative Provision Classroom Assistant - Brighton only

**Reporting to**: Centre/ Area Manager

**Pay**:Grade 3 spinal point 7, £25,584 pro rata £13.26 per hour

**Contract type**: Term time ONLY 39 WEEKS NOT 52

**Location: Brighton**

**Days and hours of work: Monday
- Friday 8.00-4.00**

**Purpose of the Role**:
We are looking for a strong and resilient teaching assistant that can step up and take on any obstacles thrown their way.

The role incorporates mentoring and tutoring pupils through the 12-week programme. This is carried out in a range of tasks including leading a group of pupils who are struggling in mainstream education due to a range of reasons affecting their emotions and behaviour.

Focused at KS3, you will need to be resilient, confident, and able to communicate well with young pupils. A background in pastoral/SEMH will be advantageous. Work may be carried out in the classroom or outside the main teaching area.

A good knowledge of safeguarding is required along with the ability to connect and build relationships quickly.

**About the role**:
**Key Responsibilities (but not limited to)**:
**Support for the Pupils**
- Supervise and provide support for pupils, ensuring their safety and access to learning activities
- Assist with the development and implementation of Individual Education / Behaviour Plans and Personal Care programmes
- Establish constructive relationships with pupils and interact with them according to individual needs
- Promote the inclusion and acceptance of all pupils
- Encourage pupils to interact with others and engage in activities led by the teacher
- Set challenging and demanding expectations and promote self-esteem and independence
- Provide feedback to pupils in relation to progress and achievement under guidance of the teachers

**Support for the Teacher**
- Create and maintain a purposeful, orderly, and supportive environment in accordance with lesson plans and assist with the display of pupils' work
- Use strategies, in liaison with the teachers, to support pupils to achieve learning goals
- Assist with the planning of learning activities
- Monitor pupils' responses to learning activities and accurately record achievement/progress as directed
- Provide detailed and regular feedback to teachers on pupils' achievement, progress, problems etc
- Promote good behaviour, dealing promptly with conflict and incidents in line with established policy and encourage pupils to take responsibility for their own behaviour
- Help to establish constructive relationships with partner schools and parents / carers
- Administer routine tests and undertake routine marking of pupils' work
- Provide clerical / administrative support, for example photocopying, typing, filing, money, administer coursework etc

**Support for the Curriculum**
- Undertake structured and agreed learning activities / teaching programmes, adjusting activities according to pupil responses
- Undertake programmes linked to local and national learning strategies e.g. literacy, numeracy, KS3, early years, recording achievement and progress and feeding back to the teachers
- Support the use of ICT in learning activities and develop pupils' competence and independence in its use
- Prepare, maintain, and use equipment / resources required to meet the lesson plans/relevant learning activity and assist pupils in their use

**Support for the provision**
- Be aware of and comply with policies and procedures relating to child protection, health, safety and security, confidentiality, and data protection, reporting all concerns to an appropriate person
- Be aware of and support difference and ensure pupils have equal access to opportunities to learn and develop
- Contribute to the overall ethos / work / aims of the provision
- Appreciate and support the role of other professionals
- Attend and participate in relevant meetings as required
- Participate in training and other learning activities and performance development as required
- Assist with the supervision of pupils out of lesson times, including before and after normal curriculum hours and at lunchtime
- Accompany teaching staff and pupils on visits, trips and out of the centre activities as required and take responsibility for a group under the supervision of the teachers

**Person Specification**

**Attributes**

**Essential**

**Desirable**

Qualifications and experience
- Previous experience of working in a classroom environment or alternative provision
- NVQ 2 Teacher Assistant or equivalent qual