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SalaryApple A Day are seeking a full-timeLearning Support Teaching Assistant to join one of our partner colleges in the Swindon area. This is a permanent role with an asap start date.
This innovative college is an inclusive specialist provision for CYP aged 16+ with learning difficulties and/or complex needs.
The settings aim provides a stimulating, learner-centred environment; equipping their learners to be independent by developing life and work skills ready for life after college and their transition to adulthood.
The ideal candidate will be and be an empathetic, patient and flexible individual, who is able to work well within a team and has a natural ability to solve challenges. Candidates will also need physical and emotional resilience to work with young people with a primary diagnosis of Autism, some of whom have other complex needs.
Your Role:
- Providing person centred, day to day support, delivering 1:1, paired and small group teaching, and learner sessions using Positive Behaviour Support (PBS).
- Support young adults from school to college and beyond
- Supervise and support learners to engage in community-based learning, work experience and educational visits.
- Support learners to develop crucial work and life skills, meet their goals and aspirations through communication, independence and participation.
The ideal candidate will need:
- Model professional communication with children/young people and other adults
- To provide feedback on Leaners participation and achievement
- To undertake and implement training in the use of software and equipment
- Work as part of a team
- Able to ensure Learners participation in the community
- Be highly motivated
- Be able to follow instruction and work independently
The successful applicant will benefit from:
- Support on continuous professional development (CPD) opportunities
- Exclusive discounts on a range of products and retailers from cinema tickets, food shopping and holidays
- Impartial counselling service in person, by video call or phone as well as a citizen’s advice function for advice and support on personal or professional queries
- Excellent pension scheme
- Free parking on site
- Annual pay progression opportunities
Benefits of Working with Apple a Day:
- Get paid to scale from day one, for all long-term placements
- Pension scheme
- Access to a variety of ad hoc, short, long-term and permanent roles across Wiltshire and Bath and North-east Somerset
- Opportunity to see if a school setting 'fits' your teaching style before being tied into a contract
- Teacher-led recruitment agency with real world experience in schools across Wiltshire and BANES
Apple A Day is committed to Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Therefore, any successful applicant will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and referencing, and all applicants will be fully vetted in line with Safer Recruitment, KCSIE and APSCo guidance.
Please note due to volume of applicants, only successful applicants will be contacted. An Apple A Day Supply is an equal opportunities employer. We seek to ensure equality of opportunity in employment and the fair treatment of all employees. We seek to ensure that no employee or prospective employee will receive less favourable treatment on grounds that cannot be justified. An Apple A Day Supply work in accordance with APSCo Education Sector group code of conduct.
