Special School Assistant - Permanent & Maternity Cover
Springwell School, Southampton, Hampshire, SO19 6DHThis job expired on 16 April 2023 – see similar jobs
Start date details
May and September
Closing date
16 April 2023 at 5pm
Date listed
27 March 2023
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time: 30 hours per week, term time only
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Actual min £19,456 - max £23,016
What skills and experience we're looking for
What will
you need?
-
Grade C or above in Maths and English (or equivalent)
- Previous experience of working with children with complex
needs (within a school setting is desirable)
- Proven teaching strategies such as PECS
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to liaise with staff at all levels
- Have enthusiasm, reliability and resilience
- Strong sense of team work
- Understand the importance of confidentiality and safeguarding
What the school offers its staff
What can we offer
you?
- Competitive salary with regular salary progression
- Opportunities for CPD
- Free on-site parking
- Pension Scheme
- Support and training
- Monday – Friday working pattern
- Excellent development opportunities to grow within a positive
and supportive team
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Mental Health and Well-being Support
Further details about the role
Working with young people can be one of the most rewarding and satisfying jobs. It can be hard and resilience must be high, but building these relationships with young people, being their constant and believing in their value can significantly change their future - the rewards will certainly outweigh the challenges!
Springwell School is located on the edge of the city of Southampton and is adesignated day special school for children aged from 4 - 11 years with complex learning difficulties including speech and language disorders, autism and challenging behaviours.
The school encourages a supportive and positive learning ethos that enables both staff and pupils to work and learn together to develop their full potential, providing the highest possible standards of education and support to children, families and staff.
Your contribution
- directed by the teacher, to work
individually or with groups of children, to support subjects and learning
across the curriculum
- to contribute, monitor and record pupils progress
- assist the class teacher with planning, development and delivery of
suitable programmes of work for pupils
- help to design, create and produce learning activities, materials and
resources to support aspects of the curriculum
- is able to deal with challenging behaviour and provide welfare
support in accordance with school policies
- take a leading role in planning, delivery and assessment of a weekly
activity, agreed by the teacher to include research, collation of resources and
implementation
- act as a team leader for offsite visits and activities, and as
directed by the teacher
Please
refer to the Job Description for the full responsibilities of this role and
knowledge required.
Commitment to safeguarding
Springwell School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Offers of employment will be subject to the full Safer Recruitment process including an enhanced disclosure and barring service check. Following recommendations from Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) for an additional pre-employment check with effect 1 Sept 22, please note, an online search may form part of this recruitment process.
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About Springwell School
- School type
- Special school, ages 4 to 11
- School size
- 271 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Springwell School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@springwellschool.net
- Phone number
- 02380 445981
Springwell is a designated day special school for pupils with complex learning difficulties aged from 4 – 11 years. Many pupils have associated disabilities including speech and language disorders, autism and challenging behaviour.
We are located on the edge of the city in Thornhill, Southampton with an additional 4 off site provisions located at mainstream schools across the city.
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