SEND Teaching Assitant

Holme Hall Primary School, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, S40 4RL

Deadline is tomorrow

Start date details
6th January 2025
Closing date
6 December 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
29 November 2024

Job details

Job role: Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern: Part time
Contract type: Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary: £17,405.00 Annually (Actual) Please note the salary quoted is the actual salary for 30 hours per week. The role is term time. This is temporary until 31.8.2028. However, as this is for SEND pupils this may cease should the pupil leave school

SEND Teaching Assitant job summary

Holme Hall Primary School is a warm and friendly place where expectations are high. We are committed to providing the very best opportunities for our children through a broad and inclusive curriculum which seeks to develop the whole child. Our staff are dedicated and passionate, with a sense of fun and commitment to every child.
We are seeking to appoint an experienced Teaching Assistant who is able to support the learning of two children with SEND in a mixed Year 3/4 class. There will also be opportunities to work more generally within the class, supporting small groups and individuals. .
The successful candidate will be an excellent classroom practitioner with experience of working with children with complex needs and who is dedicated to enabling children to achieve their personal best.
They will:
Work with individual children, including children with SEND and EHCPs.
Be able to work as part of a team
Prepare learning materials and adapt teaching support according to children’s needs
Look after children's physical, social and emotional welfare- including first aid duties
Be creative and innovative
Have high expectations of achievement and behaviour
Be committed to promoting and upholding the school values and ethos
Promote and support the inclusion of all pupils, including those with specific needs.
Be motivated and passionate to achieve the very best for the children in our care and make a genuine difference
Use initiative to assess and evaluate pupils’ needs
Lead intervention groups
Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our pupils and expects all staff to share this commitment.
We are looking for someone with a flexible, positive, outgoing, caring and nurturing approach.
Visits to the school are warmly welcomed.

Context

The descriptions below of our ‘why’, ‘how’ and ‘what’ define the work we are developing as a Trust. They are an aspiration, and we are always striving to achieve them.

We ensure our ‘why’, ‘how’ and ‘what’ hold us to account for the work we do.

Why do we exist?

Our purpose is to ensure every LEARNER has choices about their future

Our first job is to support and extend learning for pupils to provide them with the skills and knowledge to make those choices.

Our second job is to make sure no child is ignored, no family is unsupported and no life is wasted, by providing intervention at the earliest opportunity.

Our responsibility to education is to provide an environment where practitioners can collaborate, learn from each other, take risks and reflect.

How will we act?

We will use our purpose as a driver for our culture, ensuring we are;

Connected (sharing information openly, broadly and deliberately)

Helpful (embracing servant leadership and use initiative to solve the problem)

Organised (employing efficient strategies and trust colleagues to deliver)

Informed (asking coaching questions to understand what is happening)

Candid (disagreeing openly and compassionately)

Effective (only retaining our best elements and looking for continuous improvement)

Simple (avoiding complexity and increasing clarity)

What is our strategy?

We will use our culture to ensure the work of the Trust;

Focuses on creating capacity (time and resources) for schools

Ensures support is agile, providing intervention at the earliest opportunity

Supports schools to employ and invest in the best educators for children

Holme Hall Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Due to this post having access to children and/or vulnerable adults, the successful candidate will be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service check. The possession of a criminal record will not necessarily prevent an applicant from obtaining this post, as all cases are judged individually according to the nature of the role and information provided.

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.