Senior ISA - Social Communication and Interaction
Trafalgar School, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO2 9RJThis job expired on 5 October 2023 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
5 October 2023 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
21 September 2023
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 hours per week/40 weeks per year (term time plus 1 week)
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £21,205-£22,437
What skills and experience we're looking for
To support the learning and wellbeing of our students through appropriate interventions to empower them to be able to raise their own achievement and academic progress.
To deliver interventions to identified students on 1:1 basis or in small groups which support progress.
To support the learning environment of the school by challenging students appropriately, providing mentoring and guidance as required.
To attend planning or review meetings and contribute to the reports for students receiving interventions, as appropriate.
To be able to prioritise own work, show initiative and be flexible in working across all areas of intervention.
To offer specialism in at least 2 of the following areas of intervention provision:
- Learning Needs
- Physical Needs
- Emotional Needs
- Inclusion
To provide supervision and line management to designated Inclusion Support Assistant(s).
To provide training and development for staff for their specialist intervention area, working individually or with groups as required.
To work with identified students with social communication needs on 1:1 basis; in small groups within or out of lessons, tutor time, Advanced Learning Days and in other curriculum experiences as appropriate/planned to deliver specialist interventions.
To monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of intervention work, reporting regularly to the Head of Centre.
To attend and contribute to reports and planning or review meetings for students receiving intervention, as appropriate.
To provide advice and guidance to parents and work with outside agencies.
What the school offers its staff
- Clear, ambitious vision shared by all
- Culture and ethos - high challenge and high support for all
- Leadership at all levels - strong culture of developing leaders
- Safeguarding Culture
- CPD: bespoke and impactful - research led
- Wellbeing
- Governance
- School improvement work across the city and beyond
- Leadership of ECT and NPQ programmes for HISP in Portsmouth
- Equality and Diversity (LGBTQ+, anti-racism, gender equality)
- Cycle to work scheme
Commitment to safeguarding
SAFEGUARDING
Salterns Academy Trust and Trafalgar School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.
All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring checks along with other relevant employment checks.
Some forms of employment, occupations and professions are exempted from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
Working within a School is exempted from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
About Trafalgar School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1024 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Trafalgar School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@trafalgarschool.org.uk
- Phone number
- 02392693521
Trafalgar School is a vibrant learning community where every member of staff understands the difference that they can make to our students’ outcomes. We expect all staff to be actively involved in the personal development of our young people and to show full commitment to their own and the school’s professional development.
Trafalgar School and its Governing Body are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people; and they expect all staff to share this commitment.
Our aim is to provide an outstanding all-round educational experience and we are committed to the success and excellence for all our students. In June 2023 we were inspected by OFSTED and judged to be a strongly ‘good’ school with ‘outstanding’ personal development. We are enjoying the next stage of our journey (to become outstanding in all areas!) and continue to receive incredible feedback about our child centred approach; our leaders share our best practice through extensive outreach work across the city and beyond.
Arranging a visit to Trafalgar School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@trafalgarschool.org.uk.
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