Graduate Teaching Assistant

Harris Academy Orpington; Greater London; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

Harris Academy Orpington is seeking a Teaching Assistant to support individuals and groups of students, including those with SEND, in classrooms across the academy.

The role involves assisting learning, attending to personal needs, and contributing to welfare, health and safety within a supportive environment. A proactive, collaborative approach is essential.

Qualifications

• Qualifications to degree level or equivalent.
• Basic knowledge of SEND and learning barriers.
• Experience with young people with challenging behaviours.
• Knowledge of social issues facing students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
• Health and Safety awareness in the workplace.
• Experience of supporting learning in education or training environments.
• Experience establishing positive relationships with stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience managing and being responsible for own workload.
• Strong literacy and numeracy.
• Excellent written and spoken English.
• Good administrative and organisational skills.
• Ability to motivate and engage children.
• Ability to work with team across levels.
• Good ICT skills including Microsoft packages and updating records/databases.
• Ability to work on own initiative with good judgement when unsupervised.
• Flexible approach to work.
• Maintain confidentiality, tact and diplomacy.

Responsibilities

• Support individuals and groups of students in the classroom.
• Attend to students' personal and welfare needs as required.
• Collaborate with colleagues to support learning across the academy.

Skills

Literacy & numeracy

Interpersonal skills

ICT skills

Teamwork

Time management

English proficiency

Confidentiality & diplomacy

Engage children

Flexibility

SEND awareness

Education

Degree-level qualification or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Harris Academy Orpington is looking for a Teaching Assistant to support individuals and groups of students at the academy, including those with SEND.

This will involve supporting learning in the classroom and attending to students' personal needs where required, including social, health, physical, hygiene, first aid and welfare matters.

The actual salary for this role will be £25,566.11 - £25,931.85 (37.5 hours per week, 38 weeks per year) .

The successful candidate will have:

• Qualifications 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 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
• 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 effectively with team members across a wide range of levels and responsibilities
• Good ICT skills, including a working knowledge of Microsoft packages and the ability to update records and databases.
• Ability to work using own initiative, exercising good judgement where unsupervised
• Flexibility of approach to work
• Ability to maintain confidentiality, exercising tact and diplomacy