Teaching Assistant

Darwen, Lancashire
Integritas Education
Location: Darwen, Lancashire Salary: £11.00 – £12.00 per hour (£19,654.80 – £21,441.60 actual salary) depending on experience Hours: 40 hours per week Term Time Only You: Experience working with SEN in an employed or voluntary setting Full UK driving licence and access to your own car absolutely necessary, as you will be required to carpool students to and from school, on a rota basis. Training in Support work or Teaching and Learning in Schools is desirable GCSE Maths and English Level 2/C or above qualification is essential. Understanding of the Safeguarding principles and Child Protection procedures. Knowledge or experience of pupils with SEN or SEMH/ASD The desire to put the child first and treat them as an individual Be positive and creative in assisting to meet pupils individual needs This school is part of a group of 26 special needs schools across the UK. This School is rated a ‘Good’ rated innovative provider of education and care, supporting young boys aged 10 – 19 years old with complex needs typically related to Asperger s Syndrome, Autism and other conditions. They re currently looking forSEN Teaching Assistants to join them at their beautiful woodlands surrounded school in Darwen. Key duties: Participate in the planning and evaluation of learning activities. Provide meaningful feedback on pupil attainment and progress. Support the teacher in monitoring, assessing, recording and reporting pupils progress according to the school s policies in order to monitor and foster pupils progress in all areas of learning. Support positive behaviour and concentration levels of the children and adapt own behaviour and responses to any change or escalations in behaviour of the children. Promote spiritual, moral, social and cultural (SMSC) development and British values within the PSHE policy across the whole school. Promote pupils cognitive, social, emotional, behavioural, physical development and spiritual well-being through a whole Day Curriculum. Like many SEN environments; your duties are likely to vary and therefore candidates will need to be flexible and be able to lend a hand whenever required. Integritas Education Recruitment Ltd is acting as an employment business for this position. Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check. The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the recruiting organisation is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are “spent” unless they are “protected” under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children. As a result of the volume of applications, If we have not contacted you within two weeks of your application being received, then regretfully your application will not be taken forward on this occasion