ASC Base Teaching Assistant
Budmouth Academy Weymouth, Weymouth, Dorset, DT4 9SYThis job expired on 14 July 2022
Job start date
1 September 2022
Closing date
14 July 2022 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
22 June 2022
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 30 hours a week Monday - Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £14,131
Actual salary
- £14,131
ASC Base Teaching Assistant job summary
We are looking to appoint enthusiastic, dedicated Teaching Assistants to support students in our specialist provision ASC BASE and with their learning needs across the school. You will be skilled at engaging and motivating students who find learning and communicating a challenge, in the classroom as well as during intervention groups.
Our ASC Base is a provision which supports x12 students, who are fully integrated into our mainstream school alongside their peers. These students are offered additional resources, intervention and at times different spaces to work as needed, in order to help them to succeed in our school.
As an ASC Base Teaching Assistant, you will be supporting pupils with special educational needs, specifically autism and associated difficulties including Complex Communication Needs. Aiding the Teacher to deliver the curriculum, you will help children and young people to understand and access activities and overcome challenging behaviour, both in the main classroom as well as in the Base as necessary, delivering intervention.
We are looking for someone who:
• Has extensive SEN experience
• Has experience with non-verbal students
• Is knowledgeable and has experience in how to support children who demonstrate some challenging behaviour and who have complex needs including communication needs
• Is confident to work with specific sensory difficulties
This role is about working with students, staff and other professionals to achieve the best outcomes for our students who have special educational needs and/or disabilities. You will play a key role in the school as we strive to further develop our learning support.
The successful candidate will be enthusiastic and dedicated, with a passion for working with pupils who require additional support with their education.
Budmouth Academy Weymouth is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be required to have an Enhanced DBS check in line with the government’s safer recruitment guidelines.
Budmouth Academy also values the diversity of our workforce and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
Full Information pack and application form can be found via the Budmouth website www.budmouth-aspirations.org search job vacancies.
For further information please contact Mrs Nita Dooley, Director of Inclusion and SEND, ndooley@budmouth-aspirations.org at the above address.
If applicants have not received a response from the school by 20th July 2022 they can assume they have not been successful with their application.
Commitment to safeguarding
Budmouth Academy Weymouth is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check. We value the diversity of our workforce and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
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About Budmouth Academy Weymouth
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1538 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Budmouth Academy Weymouth website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- lvincent@budmouth-aspirations.org
- Phone number
- 01305830500
Budmouth Academy Weymouth is a large academy and we are fortunate to have excellent facilities. We offer an exciting curriculum and there are a wide-range of courses on offer. We also have the only Sixth Form in the Weymouth and Portland area, meaning that we have the privilege of taking children from aged 11 right through to 18, and our excellent provision ensures that they are ready for the adult world. We encourage high aspirations for all our students and every year we send students off to some of the best universities in the country.
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