Faculty Learning Support
Brighton Hill Community School, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG22 4HSThis job expired on 14 October 2022 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
14 October 2022 at 5pm
Date listed
9 September 2022
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern
- Part time: 32.75 per week, Monday – Friday during term time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £18,887 - £19,208 depending on experience
Actual salary
- £14,299 - £14,542 depending on experience
Pay scale
- B Grade
Faculty Learning Support job summary
Are you interested in developing your skills and knowledge in supporting students with SENd in the classroom? Our new Faculty Learning Support role (formally Teaching Assistant) could be the start of a new and exciting career. We are also offering opportunities to access fully funded accredited courses, alongside your working hours, to further enhance your knowledge and skills with working with students with SENd.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, passionate and committed person with good literacy and numeracy skills to join a friendly, supportive and ambitious department which has been newly developed to provided highly effective provision for our SEND students.
As a school we continue to strive to provide the best outcomes for all of our students. As such we will be able to support the successful candidate in the following ways
- Ambitious commitment to full and specialist CPD
- Opportunity to work and collaborate with likeminded colleagues and teachers.
- Opportunity to develop areas of interest within the role of and remit of SEND
- Access to a newly developed staff room and modern work space.
- Free access to the school gym to support wellbeing.
- Opportunities to work across the whole school with a range of colleagues.
- Allocated quality time to prepare interventions and resources.
- Opportunity to be involved in extra-curricular and school trips.
Role Purpose
- To support SEND students in the classroom / faculty they are allocated to, to access and support learning and make expected progress.
- To complement and support the professional work of the Teachers in their faculty to support task learning activities.
- To support the progress of SEND students within the faculty and providing best practice resources and sharing ideas.
- To liaise with teacher within the allocated faculty with regards to curriculum and be prepared to support tasks and activities. This could include some pre-learning, responsive support in the classroom and additional interventions.
- The role includes dealing with individual pupils and/or groups with complex learning needs.
Essential
- An ability to establish positive and effective working relationships with students and colleagues.
- The capacity to develop an in-depth understanding of student's needs, in order to support them with effective approaches to learning and development.
- Commitment to participate fully in all areas of school life.
- Commitment to undertake additional training to support student needs.
- Willingness and engagement with educational research.
- An ability to adapt practise and contribute towards the extensive SEND vision.
Desirable
- Experience of working within an educational setting; practice of leading small group and 1:1 intervention sessions.
- Experience as a Teaching Assistant.
Working hours are 32.75 per week, Monday – Friday during term time.
Commitment to safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding children and promoting the welfare of students and expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to DBS and other employment checks.
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About Brighton Hill Community School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1206 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- jlevett@brightonhill.hants.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01256 362523
Brighton Hill Community School is rated as ‘Good’ by Ofsted and is a rapidly improving coeducational 11-16 Community School with 1110 students.
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