Teaching Assistant

Lord Williams's School, Thame, Oxfordshire, OX9 2AQ

9 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  18 March 2025 at 10am

• Date listed

  4 March 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £17,167.00 Annually (Actual) Actual salary based on 30.42 hours, term-time only. The full-time equivalent salary is £24,790 - £25,584

Teaching Assistant job summary

Job Purpose

To work under the guidance of Teaching/Senior staff and, with an agreed system of supervision, to implement agreed work/care/support programmes with individuals/groups, in or out of the classroom. This could include those requiring specialist knowledge in particular areas and the management/preparation of resources.

Main duties

Support for students

• Supervise and provide particular support for students with SEND (Special Educational Needs & Disabilities), ensuring their safety and access to learning activities
• Assist with the development and implementation of Individual Education/Behaviour Plans and Personal Care programmes
• Establish constructive relationships with students and interact with them according to individual needs
• Promote the inclusion and acceptance of all students
• Encourage students to interact and work cooperatively with others and engage all students in activities.
• Promote self-esteem and independence and employ strategies to recognise and reward achievement of self- reliance.
• Provide feedback to students in relation to progress and achievement seeking guidance from the teacher where required.

Support for the teacher

• Assist in maintaining an orderly and supportive environment and work with the teacher to establish an appropriate learning environment.
• Work with the teacher in evaluating and adjusting lessons/work-plans as appropriate and support students to achieve learning goals.
• Monitor students’ responses to learning activities and accurately record achievement/progress as directed.
• Provide objective and accurate feedback and report as required to the teacher on student achievement, progress, pastoral and other matters, ensuring the availability of appropriate evidence.
• Undertake annotation of students’ work and accurately record achievement/progress.
• Promote good student behaviour, dealing promptly with conflict and incidents in line with established policy and encourage students to take responsibility for their own behaviour
• Liaise sensitively and effectively with parents/carers as agreed with the teacher within your role/responsibility and participate in feedback sessions/meetings with parents.
• Administer routine tests as directed by the teacher

Support for the curriculum

• Implement agreed learning activities/teaching programmes, adjusting activities according to student responses/needs.
  Implement local and national learning strategies e.g. literacy, numeracy, KS3, KS4, KS5 and make effective use of opportunities provided by other learning activities to support the development of relevant skills.
• Support the use of ICT in learning activities and develop students’ competence and independence in its use
• Determine the need for specialist equipment and resources.
• Undertake Exam Invigilation as required.

Support for the school

• Be aware of and support difference and ensure all students have equal access to opportunities to learn and develop
• Contribute to the overall ethos/work/aims of the school
• Establish where appropriate, constructive relationships and communicate with other agencies/professionals in liaison with the teacher, to support achievement and progress of students

• Recognise own strengths and areas of expertise and use these to advise and support others.
• Assist with the supervision of students during school break-times
• Accompany teaching staff and students on visits, trips and out of school activities as required and take responsibility for a group under the supervision of the teacher

Further details and a Person Specification are included in the attached Job Details.

Please use the Supporting Statement section of the Application form to demonstrate how your skills and experience meet the requirements of the Person Specification.

Commitment to safeguarding

Lord Williams’s School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

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About Lord Williams's School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 2276 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Lord Williams's School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/lord-williams-s-school

Lord Williams’s School is a thriving and popular comprehensive school serving the Thame community and its surrounding rural area. We are a split-site school, with Years 7 – 9 on the Lower School site at Towersey Road and Years 10 – 13 on the Upper School site at Oxford Road. We pay particular attention to each individual student by promoting their personal, social and educational development to enable all to achieve at the highest level possible. As a result of our continuing success, Lord Williams’s School is consistently oversubscribed.

We promote high quality teaching and learning. We attract talented, committed and conscientious teachers who produce stimulating and challenging learning activities helped by experienced support staff. Teamwork is a key feature of our work.

We are an inclusive school; we cater for all abilities and we provide access for all students. This is reflected in our work with the more able, with students with a range of learning and other difficulties and in our admissions policy for the Sixth Form.

The school has excellent teaching facilities on both sites with accommodation that is suited to the demands of the curriculum.

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