1:1 Send Teaching Assistant

**Salary**: Competitive **Job type**: Full Time, Fixed Term 2 January 2025 **Job overview**: Are you a teaching assistant with an interest in working 1:1 with a child who has SEND and who passionately believes in the limitless potential of children and the critical role adults play in this journey of self-realisation? Radnor House Sevenoaks is seeking to employ such an individual to join us as a 1:1 SEND teaching assistant. We are looking for an enthusiastic and committed person who can support a pupil with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) through the Prep School. Teaching and learning at Radnor House Sevenoaks aims to create a collaborative whole-school community of life-long learners, always motivated to achieve the highest standards of teaching and learning through self-reflection, objective evaluation, and research-based practice. - confidently support a child who has SEND in all aspects of the school day including with their personal care. - work positively and constructively within their team and with other colleagues - think creatively and imaginatively, investigate, solve problems, and identify opportunities - promote our core values of excellence, respect, courage, and perseverance We offer: - Competitive salary - Extensive opportunities for CPD - Free, high-quality lunches - Pension scheme - Free onsite parking - Employee Assistance Programme - Life Assurance **About**Radnor House Sevenoaks**: **Radnor House Sevenoaks** - Radnor House Sevenoaks Drive, Sevenoaks - Kent - TN14 6AE - United Kingdom +44 1959 563720 **Working at Radnor House Sevenoaks** **Celebrating Every Individual** Radnor House Sevenoaks passionately believes in the limitless potential of children and the critical role adults play in this journey of self realisation. Teaching and Learning at Radnor House Sevenoaks aims to create a collaborative whole-school community of life-long learners, always motivated to achieve the highest standards of teaching and learning through self-reflection, objective evaluation, and research-based practice. In this area you will find all the information you need to know about working at Radnor House Sevenoaks, including our ethos, career opportunities and employment benefits. **Our Innovative Environment** **_ "What does it feel like?"_** As a staff member at Radnor House Sevenoaks, you are part of a community that works together to achieve the best for each of its pupils. There are over 100 members of a highly dedicated staff team in teaching and support roles. The culture of Radnor House Sevenoaks is founded on the following principles: **Our Vision** - ‘An active learning environment for limitless minds’_ **Our Values** - Excellence — Respect — Courage — Perseverance_ We aim to create a secure, happy and active learning environment of the highest quality which celebrates every individual. Teachers provide outstanding pastoral care alongside teaching of the highest standard and deliver a wide range of co‐curricular opportunities. Radnor House Sevenoaks also has a highly professional support staff creating and maintaining the structures and environment for teachers to help pupils achieve their best. We actively support colleagues in seeking to improve their professional practice and working in partnership with parents to enhance opportunities for students. This includes helping them to develop an awareness of and contribution to both the local and broader community and wider field of education. Providing an active learning environment is at the heart of Radnor House Sevenoaks. We want every colleague to fulfil their potential at work through ongoing development opportunities and by taking on new challenges to develop their career. Colleagues receive regular feedback on performance and are appraised each term against key performance indicators. If you are interested in joining Radnor House Sevenoaks, please take a look at our latest vacancies. **Our Staff Community** **Our school** **A learning community** Radnor House Sevenoaks is a community of learners and our teachers are dedicated to their ongoing professional learning, realising that continuous improvement is at the heart of building a successful school. Regardless of our strengths as teachers, we will always need to learn more, because every child, class and topic is different each time we teach, and presents new challenges and opportunities. By adopting this mindset, teachers help to model positive attitudes towards learning, and to foster a sense of resilience and inherent valuing of learning in the pupils whom we teach. Teachers are able to put this philosophy into practice in various ways, ranging from attendance at Professional Learning Groups (PLGs) which run on a variety of teacher-chosen Teaching and Learning themes, through to use of online resources, and formal training courses. We also encourage teachers to pursue further qualifications, and many of our staff take advantage of partial fund