Teaching Assistant

Our Woodview provision is for secondary aged students with special educational needs including speech, language, and communication needs (SLCN) and autistic spectrum conditions (ASC).

Job Responsibilities

• To support the class teacher in order to ensure the delivery of a high-quality education for all students.
• To provide relevant and appropriate support to students, on an individual or group basis, in order to enable them to access the curriculum as independently as possible.
• To support the class teacher in organising the classroom, its resources, student groupings and displays to provide a stimulating learning situation appropriate for students with ASC/SCLN/Complex Needs
• Work with and manage sensory needs, enabling learners with a ‘sensory diet’ and / or to adopt selfregulatory strategies as appropriate and advised by the professional team.
• To make, use and keep records in accordance with company policies and procedures and standards set by the regulatory body
• To keep up-to-date with specified subject area, educational practice and SEND-related information
• Assist some learners in developing or refining their ‘independence’ skills, which may be inclusive of assisting with personal care elements.
• Liaise with staff from other departments to provide a consistent approach to all aspects of learner education.
• Maintain regular communication and liaison both informally and in meeting times, ensuring a consistent approach to education of learners.
• Ensure that the service operates to agreed budgets and contribute to keeping within these budgets as instructed.
• Exercise vigilance in respect of health and safety and promptly report all hazards and/or remedying them where appropriate. Undertake all duties in a manner calculated to minimise or avoid unnecessary risks, personally or to others.
• Report issues and/or incidents relating to staff and students that have arisen in the day promptly to the relevant line manager or appropriate person.
• Always operate in accordance with company policies and procedures, with particular reference to safeguarding, child protection, whistleblowing, complaints and representations and behaviour policies.
• Participate in team meetings, supervisions and annual reviews in accordance with company policy and the standards set by the regulatory body.
• Work to promote the school as a valued, professional asset within its community and conduct themselves at all times in a manner that reinforces this image.
• To work to and exhibit the values of the company and maintain standards of behaviour in accordance with company policies, procedures and practices.
• Participate in the staff training and development programme.