Teaching Assistant

Teaching Assistant

The teacher plans lessons and directs learning. Teaching Assistants work under the direction of the teacher and providing support to the teacher, whole class, a small group or an individual pupil. A Teaching Assistant assists the development and education of children in our school by supporting the teaching of the curriculum and when appropriate using specialist knowledge and experience. This involves undertaking non-teaching tasks related to classroom activities and providing supervision and care.

All duies will be carried out within recognised procedures or guidelines and the teacher will be available for support and guidance.

There will be some need to interpret information or situations and to solve varied problems.

More complex problems will be referred to line manager.

No requirement to supervise others, but may demonstrate tasks to new colleagues or give advice and guidance to others.

Support for children

• To supervise the activities of groups of children or individual children in order to ensure their safety, facilitate their educational development and develop a supportive and caring relationship.
• To provide care, attend to children’s personal needs and undertake activities necessary to meet the physical, emotional and educational requirements of individual or groups of children. This will require knowledge of a range of strategies and a high level of skills developed through experience, with regular supervision from teaching staff as and when required.
• To provide simple first aid, when necessary, and take all reasonable measures to ensure health and safety in the classroom and other relevant areas within and outside the school premises.
• To undertake a range of more specialised tasks to support learning e.g. delivering of specialist SEN intervention programmes.

Support for teachers

1. Provide support for the teacher during lessons, e.g. through directed work on curriculum areas in small groups, or supporting child initiated learning in the general indoor/outdoor environment.

2. Assist teaching staff to ensure that the aims and objectives of the school are achieved

3. To maintain records of children’s progress as part of the monitoring and reviewing of educational work programmes and assist in the future development of programmes and plans as and when appropriate.

4. To prepare display materials and teaching aids, undertake simple maintenance and repair and clean and tidy up after use.

5. To undertake other relevant duties allocated at the discretion of the classroom teacher, deputy Headteacher or Headteacher.

• To undertake the following roles
• Collecting money.
• Bulk photocopying.
• Producing class lists.
• Record-keeping and filing.
• Classroom display – teachers will make professional decisions in determining what material is displayed in and around their classroom.
• Collating child reports.
• Ordering supplies and equipment – teachers may be involved in identifying needs.
• Record keeping using learning stories
• Cataloguing, preparing, issuing and maintaining equipment and materials.
• Fulfilling the Key person role.
• Managing child data, assessment and progress tracking with class teacher.

Support for the school

• To attend and contribute to appropriate review meetings, as required by the headteacher
• To assist in the supervision of children outside the classroom including in playgrounds or on visits outside the school premises.
• To observe children as individuals and in groups and monitor and report back to teaching staff on problems, progress and possible developmental needs utilizing specialist knowledge and experience.
• To prepare and operate computers and other equipment and undertake any other simple practical tasks on equipment used as teaching aids.
• To assist and provide support to less experienced Teaching Assistants as and when required.
• To undertake other relevant duties allocated at the discretion of the classroom teacher, SENCO, Deputy Headteacher or Headteacher

Support for the curriculum

1. To participate in the delivery of educational work programmes by taking responsibility for longer term learning activities planned in the programme, within an agreed framework and to specific timescales. This may be in a specific area of competence, specialist knowledge or experience. E.g. delivery of SEN intervention programme

2. Undertake tasks to support the curriculum and assist with events organised as part of the curriculum

3. Support implementation of Government initiatives under the direction of the teacher

• Provide simple first aid and personal care to children.
• Have access to child assessment records and data as part of the duties described above, following the school’s guidelines with regard to confidentiality.

• All staff have an entitlement to an induction and professional support for their role.
• All staff will receive appropriate training, as applicable, for all duties, which are required within this job description.
• All staff will receive the support of a line manager and to work as a valued part of our whole school team

• School Safe
• First Aid
• Safeguarding

There may be a requirement for some training to take place outside normal scheduled hours.

Job Types: Part-time, Temporary contract

Salary: £23,308.00-£23,893.00 per year

Expected hours: 25 per week

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme

Work Location: In person