Verbal Behaviour Assistant - Manor School
Manor School, London, NW10 3NT28 days remaining to apply
Closing date
1 May 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
28 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £27,345.00 - £27,729.00 Annually (FTE) Scale 1: Points 2 to 3 (£27,345 - £27,729 Plus SEN Allowance (£1,491) FTE. Actual starting salary (pro rata), £25,195 including SEN Allowance
Verbal Behaviour Assistant - Manor School job summary
We are seeking to appoint Verbal Behaviour Assistants to join our vibrant and welcoming special school.
Manor School provides an Ofsted-judged ‘Outstanding’ specialist learning environment for pupils with a wide range of special needs and we have a clear and strong vision ‘love, learn, laugh’ which we achieve through creating a positive, engaging environment where pupils effectively learn.
Our Trust mission: ‘love, learn, laugh’, underpins our key aim to improve our pupils’ lives and outcomes through outstanding educational practice and provision, while also setting challenging and aspirational goals designed to empower our pupils and enhance their life choices. The education and well-being we provide depends on forging excellent partnerships between home and school.
We strongly believe that school is the opportunity for children to discover and unlock hidden talents in a fun and nurturing environment, as we believe every child has the ability to do amazing things if a school provides the right opportunities.
What is Verbal Behaviour?
- Verbal Behaviour is an approach that applies behavioural principles to language development
- Teaching methodologies used are evidence based and developed from an initial text written by Skinner.
- Verbal Behaviour focusses on the reasons why we engage in different types of communication.
- It helps us identify areas of communication that our pupils find difficult and how to teach them most effectively.
- All of our teaching is delivered in the context of the MultiAgency Support the individual receives.
We can offer you:
- A place within a committed Verbal Behaviour team;
- Tailored CPD programme and training to develop an understanding of the Verbal Behaviour methodology
- Calm, purposeful and well-resourced learning environments
- A forward-thinking approach to teaching and learning throughout the school.
We are looking for:
- Positive, energetic and creative learning support and teaching assistants with a love of teaching and learning;
- Applicants who have a keen interest in developing skills in Verbal Behaviour;
- Teaching assistants who have experience in positively managing behaviour;
- Experience or knowledge of autism and/or severe learning difficulties is an advantage.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and education of our children and expect all our staff to share this commitment.
An enhanced DBS check and references will be required.
The advertised role is not eligible for visa sponsorship, only applicants with the automatic right to work in the UK should apply.
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 Manor School
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 11
- School size
- 237 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Manor School website
Brent Specialist Academy Trust
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