Teaching Assistant for pupils with Special Educational Needs
Robert Fitzroy Academy, Croydon, CR0 6JNThis job expired on 15 December 2023 – see similar jobs
Start date details
January 2024
Closing date
15 December 2023 at 7:41am
Date listed
29 November 2023
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Part time: 34.5 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Grade 3 SP5 (SP 5-6) £27030 - £27438. This is the FTE salary, the salary will be pro rata for the number of hours and weeks worked.
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking to recruit an experienced Teaching Assistant, specifically to work with pupils with special educational needs. You will need to have personal qualities and skills of the highest order, to help ensure that the Robert Fitzroy Academy becomes a truly outstanding and highly successful school. Your role will be to support the class teacher, to support pupils’ learning and to support the ethos of the Academy.
In particular, successful candidates should have:
- Experience of working with and caring for children with special educational needs within a school setting.
- Experience of working with children with limited verbal skills.
- Able to work independently with support from teachers to deliver a personalised curriculum & the ability to ask questions.
- Ability to deliver intervention to support skills.
- High expectations of students in terms of learning, achievement and behaviour
- Enthusiasm and dedication to developing innovative approaches to learning, teaching, mentoring and guidance.
- A commitment to promoting and fostering good relationships between children and with parents and colleagues.
- The ability to deescalate children who are dysregulated and an understanding of positive behaviour management.
- Knowledge of the SEND code on practice
You should be:
- Forward thinking and willing to adapt to the changing needs of the school and the SEN pupils.
- Able to work independently and plan support for children in collaboration with the teacher and follow recommendations from outside agencies.
- Able to promote the warm, caring and friendly ethos of the school to pupils, parents and the public.
- Able to work under pressure, whilst remaining calm and patient
- Able to manage challenging behaviour linked to needs.
- Confident to use your own initiative when required.
- Good at working to timescales and able to timetable your day using visual timetables for the children.
- Computer literate and knowledgeable about SMART targets
What the school offers its staff
What we can offer you?
- An active school community with supportive parents
- An award-winning learning environment
- Excellent professional development opportunities
- A supportive working culture that focuses on positive learning behaviour and high expectations for all children
- Continued professional development through weekly meetings.
- Support from teachers, team leaders and Senior leaders
- The chance to work with a supportive family of schools (REAch2 trust) who share the same passion for primary education.
Find out more.
Our website http://www.robertfitzroyacademy.com is full of information about our school. We also have a very lively social media culture at the school which we will expect you to contribute to if you join us. You can see all our social media in one place on the Latest News tab on our website.
Further details about the role
Commitment to safeguarding
RFA is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all members of staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An Enhanced DBS disclosure check is required for this post. Applicants who have lived or worked overseas for more than six months in the last 10 years will be required to obtain a Certificate of Good Conduct.
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About Robert Fitzroy Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 587 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Robert Fitzroy Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- Deborah.Tapson@robertfitzroyacademy.org
- Phone number
- 020 8662 9700
We are an Ofsted rated ‘Good School’ with two previous ‘Good’ inspections since our opening in 2012.
We are a school who believe in human flourishing; championing the children’s whole experience at school. We want our enriching and tailored curriculum to impact the children’s mind, body and soul.
The whole child is the whole point of what we do here at RFA.
The Robert Fitzroy Academy is a school that dreams big for its pupils.
The school is named after a man called (as you may guess!) Robert Fitzroy.
There is so much from his character and life that is embodied in the school ethos, culture and actions. He was a sea captain leading different expeditions and we want our children to have that same sense of fun and adventure, team and kinship, risk taking attitude to their learning and being bold and inquisitive.
Yet, he was also a pioneering meteorologist starting the process of forecasting the weather! With this in mind, we also want our children to be thirsty for knowledge, build great learning habits, learn from mistakes and be focused and resilient every day come rain or shine!
It is a combination of these skills and attributes that we want to cultivate for our children, allowing them to thrive within the next phase of their learning and beyond. Education really matters and we want to ensure that ‘every day and every lesson’ counts.
Arranging a visit to Robert Fitzroy Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email Deborah.Tapson@robertfitzroyacademy.org.
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