One-to-One Teaching Assistant
Severndale Specialist Academy, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY2 5SH23 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
14 February 2025 at 9am
Date listed
22 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 1
Working pattern
- Full time: Monday to Friday, 32.5 hours per week (Term Time plus 5 PD days)
Contract type
- Permanent
Hourly rate
- £12.85 per hour
What skills and experience we're looking for
The purpose of this role is to provide learning support for an inspirational KS1 child with complex needs and a severe visual impairment. The child accesses their learning via a bespoke, hybrid educational package which is a combination of education being provided at home, in the community, and at Severndale Academy.
You will be required to support the child’s EHCP targets through the planning and implementation of learning activities. You will be expected to work with the multidisciplinary team around the child, contribute to and attend meetings as appropriate to help support the child’s holistic development and progress.
The successful applicant will be expected to work flexibly and be responsive to the needs of the child and family. You will work closely alongside the child’s family as most of the child’s learning currently happens at home and in the community. The bespoke, hybrid educational package is overseen by school and closely monitored by the Vice Principal and Safeguarding Lead to ensure that all members of the child’s team have effective communication and agreed ways of working safely together.
You will have the opportunity to develop your own knowledge and skills from access to the child’s team of professionals. Additional training will be provided, and this will include some excellent opportunities to support the child and your own personal development.
The weekly hourly contract is negotiable up to 32.5 hours as school and the family are committed to finding the right individual (or individuals) who can best support this child’s needs. The role will also involve working within a KS1 PMLD class when required. You will need a full driving license and be prepared to drive between school, the child’s home, and other locations in the community. Mileage expenses will be paid, or you can use a school car.
Skills required:
- Ability to build good relationships with the child, their family, and the multidisciplinary team.
- Awareness and understanding of supporting a child with no vision.
- A calm, sensitive and gentle approach is essential.
- Ability to think in a solution-focused way. We value creative thinking!
- Ability to plan activities but also the flexibility in approach to be adaptable to the child’s needs.
- Comprehensive and contemporaneous record keeping is essential, and you will therefore require good IT skills.
- Strive for quality of best practice in all that you do to support the child.
You should be an enthusiastic and committed professional who is flexible and reliable and able to work on your own initiative, with the ability to establish effective working relationships at all levels, particularly as a member of a team. You should have the relevant skills and personal qualities such as being dynamic and proactive to undertake the range of duties and the ability to work accurately and consistently.
What the school offers its staff
- Permanent contract
- Salary range Scale 3, SP5 – SP6: from £12.85 per hour
- 32.5 hours per week (Term Time plus 5 PD days)
- Access to the School Advisory Service &Bike to work scheme
- Continuing Professional Development
- Local Authority Pension Scheme
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
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@severndaleacademy.co.uk
CVs are not accepted.
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About Severndale Specialist Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 19
- School size
- 414 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Severndale Specialist Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@severndaleacademy.co.uk
Severndale Specialist Academy:
Severndale Specialist Academy is a multi-site special school incorporating our Monkmoor campus, provision within a local mainstream secondary school and a purpose built 16-25 year old provision at our local college. We work with young people with special educational needs from within Shropshire and beyond. Our children and young people can access Severndale Specialist Academy from nursery age through to 25 and have a range of learning, physical and mobility difficulties and some students require personal care. Supporting communication and enabling independence is a key focus of our work .
Severndale is a truly unique special school and is one of the largest special schools in the country. We are proud to be able to meet the needs of over 430 young people across all abilities of the SEND spectrum and across three different sites. Severndale is also proud to be part of The Learning Community Trust, a truly inclusive multi academy trust based in Telford.
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