Teaching Assistant

**Vacancy No**

VN4719

**Employment Type**

Fixed Term

**Hours Per Week**

37.00

**Work Pattern**

Monday to Friday

**Location**

Sapphire House

**Location Region**

North East

**Location City**

Newton Aycliffe

**Location Postal Code**

DL5 6DS

**Interview Date**

07 Feb 2025

**Job Details**

**Waythrough Education Centre**
Waythrough's Education Centre is a thriving, ambitious, exciting and innovative place to work Our holistic education programmes are highly effective at supporting our learners to make progress from their starting points, which for many of our cohort is considerable.

**100% of learners said their confidence had increased since completing the course**
Our holistic post-16 Study programme is highly effective at supporting our learners to make progress from their starting points, which for many of our cohort is considerable. A significant proportion of Waythrough learners have additional needs and barriers, their prior attainment is low, and learners have often had difficult experiences of education. Learners come to Humankind to gain qualifications, especially in maths and English, to help them move towards future employment; and/or to develop their independent living skills.

**100% of learners said**they would recommend Humankind Education Service to others**

**Summary of role**
As a Waythrough Teaching Assistant within this role you will:

- Plan and deliver a selection of interventions to small groups of learners
- Work with class teachers to raise the attainment of learners
- Promote learners’ independence, self-esteem and social inclusion
- Provide support to learners, individually or in groups, so they can access the curriculum, engage in learning and experience a sense of achievement
- Support learners with Educational Health Care Plans, in line with their educational programmes.
- Contribute to effective assessment and planning by supporting the monitoring, recording and reporting of learner performance and progress as required
- Use allocated time to devise clearly structured activities that interest and motivate learners and progress their learning
- To provide cover for colleagues when required
- Provide high quality learning resources for all students though the use of adaptations and differentiation
- Liaise with parents/carers/outside agencies where appropriate
- Communicate their knowledge and understanding of learners to other school staff and education, health and social care professionals, so that informed decision making can take place on intervention and provision
- You will be responsible for the safeguarding learners and adhering to Waythrough's Safeguarding polices.
- Provide our learners with learning opportunities that aspire to be outstanding and adhere to those standards within the common inspection framework.

**Safeguarding at Waythrough**
Waythrough is committed to safeguard and protect all children and adults we come into contact within the course of our work. We commit to:

- uphold our duty to protect individual children identified as either suffering, or likely to suffer, significant harm as a result of abuse or neglect
- To ensure that all concerns and allegations of abuse are taken seriously and responded to appropriately
- To work with service users in ways that are transparent and supportive, and to keep them informed of our policies and procedures.
- To use best practice in the recruitment and training of workers, to ensure that we recruit workers with the skills and knowledge to provide high quality support to our service users.
- To ensure that all workers have access to high quality induction, training, and supervision.
- To work in partnership with colleagues in Social Care and the Police to ensure a prompt and effective response is provided to children at risk of harm
- To ensure that no child or group of children will be treated any less favourably than others. We believe that all children without exception have the right to protection from abuse regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation.
- To treat safeguarding as a priority that is discussed within Waythrough at every level from team to Board

If you are not currently working with Children/Young Adults you will be required to provide a reference from the relevant employer from the last time you worked with children.

**Please note that a personal statement providing detailed evidence of skills and experience as required within the job description is compulsory in order to be considered for the role.**

**Safeguarding Adults Policy**

**Child Protection Policy and Guidance**

For full person specifications and job details

‘The salary advertised above demonstrates the full earning potential for this role, starting salaries will allow for pay progression within the pay band’

Who are we

Waythrough launched in October 2024 following the merger of Humankind and Richmond