Key Support Work - Visual Impairment

Matthew Arnold School, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX2 9JE

18 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  20 May 2024 at 1pm

• Date listed

  18 April 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £18,340.00 - £19,951.00 Annually (Actual) Salar dependent on experience

Key Support Work - Visual Impairment job summary

Job title:	Key Support Work - Visual Impairment	Team:	Learning Support Team
Reporting to:	SENCO	Contract:	Term time (including Inset Days)
Grade:	6	Hours/week	32

Main purpose of the role

This is a student­ intervention based role, to support a student with Visual Impairment as identified in their Education, Health and Care Plan. The role requires use of advanced levels of knowledge and skills when planning, delivering and monitoring in class and intervention support.

Principal responsibilities

In order to raise outcomes for this student with visual impairment, typical duties are:

• Coordinating and deploying support with teaching staff and the student, to include support to manage learning environment and curriculum

• Liaison with external agencies and school to promote and increase outcomes in the classroom

• Liaise with student and family to ensure attendance at school

• Meet and greet student before lessons

• Observe behaviour in lessons and create interventions to support staff and student to achieve outcomes

• Work with student both inside and outside the classroom, which involves delivering subject interventions for 1:1 support , for example at any times when the student cannot access the classroom

• Plan with and support classroom teachers to motivate the student’s learning by developing and promoting appropriate strategies

• Creation of resources to support the student in reaching their targets

• Support student to improve study and organisational skills including liaising with teachers to provide lesson outlines for the following week to limit anxiety for the student

• Attendance at professionals’ planning and training meetings, six times a year

• Encourage student to be positive, confident and an independent learner through differentiation and support provided

• Carry out other duties relating to the core purpose of this job specification as required

For all staff

You have specific responsibilities under Health & Safety legislation to ensure that you:

• Take reasonable care for your own health and safety, and that of others affected by what you do, or do not do

• Cooperate on all issues involving health and safety

• Use work items provided for you correctly, in accordance with training and instructions

• Do not interfere with or misuse anything provided for your health, safety or welfare

• Report any health and safety concerns to your line manager as soon as practicable

Matthew Arnold School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful applicant will be subject to enhanced DBS checking.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

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Using the application form

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

About Matthew Arnold School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1314 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Matthew Arnold School website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/matthew-arnold-school-oxford (opens in new tab)

Matthew Arnold is a popular and successful school on the edge of Oxford with an excellent local reputation. We are focussed on improving outcomes for every student and are committed to staff development to support this.

The school is part of the Acer Trust family of schools so there is opportunity to share expertise and experiences and enjoy professional development with more than one school. Our induction programmes give strong support to NQTs.

We offer defined-benefit public sector pension schemes (Teachers Pension, Local Government Pension Scheme), a 24-hour Employee Assistance Programme, good bus links, car and cycle parking.

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