Teaching Assistant
St Dominic's School, Godalming, Surrey, GU8 4DXThis job expired on 23 April 2023 – see similar jobs
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
23 April 2023 at 11:59pm
Date listed
25 November 2022
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: 32.5 hours per week, 08:30 – 16:00 Monday to Friday, Term Time only
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- FTE: £23,021 - £24,650 per annum Actual: (Actual: £17,796 - £19,055 per annum), depending on experience
Pay scale
- Grade R2 Scale point 9 – R3 Scale point 15
What skills and experience we're looking for
- Ability to think, write and speak clearly and concisely
- Ability to communicate well with parents, pupils, care workers, outside agencies
- Ability to work collaboratively as part of a team
- A calm, reassuring and responsive approach
- Ability to manage behaviour in the classroom
- Ability to organise and prioritise work and resources
- Good ICT skills
- Practical and theoretical knowledge of behaviour management
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training ( Key - Essential = E; Desirable = D)
- GSCE or equivalent in maths and English - E
- NVQ Level 2 or 3 in Working with Children - D
- Other relevant training eg First Aid, Child
Protection, Behaviour Management, Working with children with ASC, Team
Teach - D
- Full Clean Driving Licence - D
Knowledge and Experience
- Working with children - D
- Working in an educational setting - D
- Working with children with special needs - D
- Working as part of a team - E
- Working with children from a variety of cultural backgrounds - D
Skills and Abilities
- Ability to think, write and speak clearly and concisely - E
- Ability to work collaboratively as part of a team - E
- A calm, reassuring and responsive approach - E
- Ability to manage behaviour in the classroom - E
- Ability to organise and prioritise work and resources - E
- Good ICT skills - E
- Practical and theoretical knowledge of behaviour management - D
Personal Attributes
- Confident and self-motivated in exercising appropriate initiative - E
- A positive, flexible and confident attitude to work and problems - E
- A commitment to equality and celebrating diversity - E
- Patience and resilience - E
- Good level of physical fitness and general health - E
- Enthusiasm and drive for working in a SEN school - E
- Ability to take responsibility for own CPD - E
What the school offers its staff
Working alongside teachers, therapists and other support staff, you will provide support to groups and individuals. You will help to improve their engagement in learning, remove barriers to learning, improve attainment and promote their self-confidence and emotional well-being.
Benefits include: Free car parking, lunch provided on site, Employee Assistance Programme and membership to Perkbox.
Commitment to safeguarding
Orchard Hill College and Academy Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About St Dominic's School
- School type
- Academy, ages 7 to 19
- School size
- 157 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 7 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- St Dominic's School website
- Email address
- zpetkova@stdominicsschool.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01428 684 693
St Dominic’s School is a special academy in Surrey and provides outstanding education for pupils and students aged 7-19 typically with a primary diagnosis of Speech Language & Communication Needs and/or Autistic Spectrum Condition. The school is located in Hambledon, close to Witley, Milford, Guildford and Godalming.
We are part of Orchard Hill College & Academy Trust (OHC&AT), a specialist Trust with 12 Academies and seven College Centres across London, Surrey and Sussex.
At St Dominic’s we believe passionately in a multi-disciplinary, ‘needs led’ approach to meeting each child’s and young person’s needs, resulting in carefully managed groupings, including specialist intervention work from our in house therapeutic team.
The school works closely in partnership with families, referring authorities and external agencies to coordinate the best possible education, care, guidance and support for its pupils and students.
Arranging a visit to St Dominic's School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email zpetkova@stdominicsschool.org.uk.
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