Teaching and Pupil Support Assistant
Courtlands School, Plymouth, Devon, PL6 5JS12 days remaining to apply
Closing date
18 October 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
3 October 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Learning Mentor
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £18,651.00 Annually (Actual)
Teaching and Pupil Support Assistant job summary
Support for students in accessing learning activities across the curriculum including Learning Outside the Classroom, as directed by Teacher/Senior Staff to include:
Support and encourage students to engage in learning activities both inside and outside the classroom, and promote positive relationships between all in the school community
Use effective behaviour regulation strategies consistently in line with the school’s policy and procedures
Work with other schools, educational psychologists, health and social care professionals, and other external agencies as appropriate
Secure relevant resources for pupils
Assist with the supervision of students during off-site activities
Be aware of, and comply with Policies and Procedures relating to: - Child Protection; Health & Safety; Security; and Confidentiality – reporting all concerns to the Designated Person/s
Be aware of, and support difference, and ensure all students have equal access to opportunities to learn and develop
Communicate regularly with staff, parents, carers and agencies
Support children who are in crisis
Be an effective model of the expected behaviour of students, communicated using trauma informed and trauma sensitive strategies.
To support in the development of Individual Education Plans
Contribute to the overall ethos/work/aims of the school
Appreciate and support the role of other professionals, and maintain positive working relationships
Attend relevant meetings as required
Participate in training, learning activities, performance development, and maintain record of own professional development
Ensure records are maintained and kept up to date
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
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Courtlands School
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 11
- School size
- 107 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Courtlands School website (opens in new tab)
Courtlands Special School Academy is a friendly and ambitious academy in Plymouth which caters for primary aged children (4-11) with Moderate Learning Difficulties and Social, Emotional and Mental Health needs. Our innovative curriculum is based on meeting individual’s needs rather than schemes of work, and provides a wide range of curriculum and therapeutic input.
We are leaders in our field, having won numerous national awards for our work, and work in a Trauma Informed way to support our children to overcome their difficulties and make great progress in all areas of their development. We constantly strive for the best ways to support our children, and welcome innovation and new, evidence based ways of working.
You will need high levels of emotional resilience, and good coping strategies born out of successful experience of teaching and supporting children with complex needs including Social, Emotional and Mental Health Difficulties such as ADHD and attachment disorders; Communication and Interaction needs such as ASC and Speech and Language Difficulties. This could be in either a special school or mainstream school, with mainstream experience being an advantage.
We can offer you a motivated and skilled staff team and a real opportunity to make a difference to the future of our wonderful children and school. We look after our staff with award winning care for their wellbeing (National Wellbeing in Schools Award 2019). You won’t be taking marking home to do in the evening, and you will be given the freedom to meet the needs of the pupils in your class, along with the resources to do it. You will receive training in a wide range of SEND and real time support and mentoring form a Leadership Team whose door is literally open all the time.
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