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Teaching Assistant

Harris Academy South Norwood, London, SE25 6AE

This job expired on 26 January 2023 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  26 January 2023 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  17 January 2023

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
• Working pattern: Full time: Directed
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £24,804-£25,212; Actual Salary £20,854.44-£21,197.47
• Pay scale: Grade 3 (Outer London)
• Additional allowances:

  Performance and Loyalty Bonus + Pension scheme (LGPS) + Harris Wellbeing Cash Plan + Additional Harris Benefits

What skills and experience we're looking for

Harris Academy South Norwood is looking for a Teaching Assistant to support individuals and groups of students to enable access to learning, contributing to the development and maintenance of a purposeful, nurturing learning environment. The successful candidate will be involved in first aid related matters and have a basic knowledge of SEND and learning barriers.

This role is based at our Beulah Hill campus in Upper Norwood.

Qualifications, Knowledge and Training

• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• Basic knowledge of SEND and learning barriers
• Some knowledge of strategies in working with young people with challenging behaviours
• Knowledge of some of the social issues facing students from disadvantaged backgrounds
• Awareness of Health and Safety issues in the workplace.

Experience

• Experience of working directly with young people in an education or training environment, supporting the learning of students.
• Experience of establishing and maintaining positive working relationships with a range of stakeholders, at all levels.
• Experience of managing and being responsible for own workload.

Personal Skills, Abilities & Qualities

• Good literacy and numeracy skills,
• Good interpersonal and communication skills, with an excellent standard of written and spoken English.
• Good administrative and organisational skills.
• Ability to interest, encourage, motivate and engage children
• Ability to work as part of a team; working effectively with people across a wide range of levels and responsibilities.
• Computer literate – must have good ICT skills including a working knowledge of MS packages e.g. Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Excel etc, as well as using and updating records and databases.
• Ability to work using own initiative, exercising good judgement where unsupervised.
• Flexibility of approach to work.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality; having tact and diplomacy where necessary.

What the school offers its staff

Harris Academy South Norwood is an extremely popular 11-19 academy that has been judged Outstanding by OFSTED since 2010. We deliver a broad and challenging curriculum to all our students in a calm and well-ordered environment. We have high expectations of all members of the school community. This is reflected in our consistently high student performance at GCSE, progression to post 16 study at our sixth form and then on to some of the best universities in the country.

Our people are at the heart of our success. We have developed a strong culture of collaboration and best practice, with professional development and career planning at its centre. We invest in our staff with support, coaching, mentoring, and a wide range of top-quality training programmes delivered at every level.

In addition to the opportunities for career development and progression, we also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package which includes a Performance and Loyalty Bonus, Pension Scheme with generous employer contributions, a Wellbeing Cash Plan including access to a virtual GP, electric car scheme, and many other benefits. Learn more about our benefits on our website.

Further details about the role

Your responsibilities will include:

• To supervise and provide particular support for identified students, in 1:1, group or whole class situations.
• To assist in the development of appropriate resources, schemes of work and teaching strategies, working with the teacher.
• To assist in evaluating identified students' progress through agreed assessment activities.
• To provide detailed and regular feedback to teachers.
• To lead small group sessions and interventions as appropriate.
• To attend to the students' personal needs where required, and implement related personal programmes.
• To support with behaviour management, using appropriate strategies.
• To contribute to creating a purposeful and supportive learning environment.
• Undertake structured and agreed learning activities/teaching programmes as appropriate.
• To assist with the supervision of students out of lesson times.
• To establish good relationships with students.
• To promote the inclusion and acceptance of all students.
• To be aware of and support difference and ensure all students have equal access to opportunities to learn and develop.
• To support students with their learning and development in respect of local and national learning strategies.
• To encourage students to interact with others and engage in activities led by the teacher.
• To set challenging and demanding expectations, promoting self-esteem and independence.
• To prepare the classroom as directed for lessons and clear afterwards and assist with the display of students' work.
• To prepare and maintain equipment/resources as directed.
• To undertake student record keeping as requested.
• To establish and maintain positive relationships with parents/carers.
• To provide clerical/admin support as required.

Commitment to safeguarding

The Harris Federation and all our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, references, an online search, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed.

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About Harris Academy South Norwood

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 2155 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Harris Academy South Norwood website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: info@harrissouthnorwood.org.uk
• Phone number: 0208 405 5070
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/harris-academy-south-norwood (opens in new tab)

Located five minutes from Norwood Junction train station, a transport hub ten minutes' train journey from London Bridge, Harris Academy South Norwood has belonging and personal growth as our touchstones. We believe that teaching students powerful knowledge and developing their understanding of the world will help them become the best version of themselves: to help them to turn mirrors into windows.

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