Level 2 Teaching Assistant

Bluecoat Aspley Academy; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

Bluecoat Aspley Academy in Nottingham invites applications to support and develop students, focusing on safety, wellbeing and cognitive development through individual or small-group work.

You will assist in planning and delivering programmes for targeted SEN and mainstream curriculum support, liaising with teachers, parents and external agencies as needed.

This role emphasizes building self-esteem, inclusion and effective use of resources to maximise student achievement.

Responsibilities

• Support individuals or groups of students to ensure their safety and facilitate their physical, emotional and cognitive development.
• Lead care, personal hygiene medical needs and support of students including publishing care plans.
• Contribute to the health and well-being of students.
• Establish and maintain good working relationships with individual students and groups.
• Promote and reinforce the students' self-esteem and independence e.g. support inform time, AoW, unstructured time, enrichment.
• Encourage acceptance and inclusion of all students including delivery of targeted interventions and any other support tasks as directed by the SENCo.
• Support students during formal public or internal Academy examinations.
• Supervise and coordinate students on work placements, educational visits, residential trips, transition, travel training, off-site placements and recreational activities.
• Plan and deliver a programme of self-organisation and study skills in allocated periods during the Academy day and after Academy sessions.
• Draw upon prior knowledge to understand the specific needs of students within the Academy community.
• Liaise with teachers/parents/carers/external agencies as appropriate.
• Assume responsibility for designated keyworker role with the most challenging students, including those with an EHCP.
• Collaborate with the SENCo in writing and collating IEPs/Reviews/Annual Reviews.
• Plan and participate in transition processes and individualised programmes for targeted students.
• Liaise with classroom teachers and complete Teacher/TA contracts.
• Assist teaching staff in planning work programmes for individuals and groups of students.
• Implement learning programmes as directed by the class teacher.
• Plan and provide resources reflecting needs of SEN students in mainstream lessons.
• Support designated students or a small group as agreed by the teacher.
• Collate data for targeted students with SEN.
• Use assessment information to inform teaching staff of learning goals and styles.
• Gather information about named students and their current levels for staff.
• Observe and assess individual students’ needs and provide feedback to teachers/SENCo.
• Agree a behaviour management role within the classroom and apply sanctions and rewards.
• Work with the mainstream teacher in the review process as appropriate.
• Plan and lead literacy and numeracy tasks to improve access across the curriculum.
• Coordinate and organise students attending extra-curricular activities.
• Plan and deliver learning activities including enrichment during the school day and after school.
• Support the use and development of ICT within the classroom.
• Develop and deliver individual/small group sessions including Literacy, Numeracy, Life Skills, SpLD, SRE, SALT, self-help skills, Social Stories.
• Teach the Foundation Learning cohort in sessions as directed by the SENCo and Assistant Principal (Curriculum).
• Liaise and report to visiting support agencies involved in curriculum support such as Educational Psychologist, Speech Therapist, Inclusive Education Service, Academy Doctor.
• Assess, record and report student achievement through Academy assessment procedures.

Job description

SUPPORT FOR THESTUDENT

• Supportand direct activities with either individuals or groups of students toensure their safety and facilitate their physical, emotional and cognitivedevelopment.

• To leadcare, personal hygiene medical needs and support of students includingpublishing care plans
• Contributeto the health and well-being of students.
• Establishand maintain good working relationships with individual students andgroups.
• Promoteand reinforce the students' self-esteem and independence e.g. support inform time, AoW, unstructured time, enrichment etc.

To take a lead role in encouraging the acceptance andinclusion of all students including the implementation and delivery of targetedinterventions and any other support taskas directed by the SENCo.

• Tosupport students as directed during formal public or internal Academyexaminations.
• Tosupervise and coordinate students on work placements, educational visits,residential trips, transition, travel training, off-site placements andrecreational activities as appropriate.
• To planand deliver a programme of self-organisation and study skills in allocatedperiods during the Academy day and after Academy sessions.
• Drawingon prior knowledge and expertise of individual needs, to develop anunderstanding of the specific needs of the students within the Academycommunity.
• Toliaise effectively with teachers/parents/carers/external agencies asappropriate.
• Toassume responsibility for designated keyworker role with the mostchallenging and complex student/s, including those with an EHCP.
• Tocollaborate with the SENCo in the writing and collation ofIEPs/Reviews/Annual Reviews.
• To beresponsible for the planning and participation of transition process andindividualised programmes for targeted students.

SUPPORT THETEACHER

• Liaisewith classroom teachers and complete Teacher/TA contracts.
• Assistteaching staff in the planning of work programmes for individuals andgroups of students.
• Toimplement learning programmes as directed by the class teacher - withindividual or small groups.
• Planand provide appropriate resources reflecting needs of SEN students inmainstream lessons.
• Tosupport designated students/s or be responsible for a small group asagreed by the teacher.
• To beresponsible for the collation of data for targeted students with SEN.
• Usingassessment information and data to inform teaching staff of students'learning goals and preferred learning styles.
• Togather information, as directed, about named students and their currentlevels for staff.
• Toobserve and assess individual student's needs and provide regular feedbackand/or guidance to the teacher/SENCo.
• Toagree a behaviour management role within the classroom recordingappropriate Sleuths and following through sanctions and rewards.
• To workwith the mainstream teacher in the review process as appropriate.

SUPPORT FOR THECURRICULUM

• Planand lead literacy and numeracy tasks to improve access across thecurriculum in a planned manner.
• Co-ordinateand organise students attending extra-curricular activities.
• Planand deliver learning activities including enrichment activities during thenormal Academy day and after Academy.
• Supportthe use and development of ICT within the classroom.
• Takeresponsibility for developing and delivering individual/small group skillsessions including Literacy, Numeracy, Life Skills, SpLD, SRE, SALT,self-help skills, Social Stories etc.
• Toteach the Foundation Learning cohort in sessions as directed by the SENCoand Assistant Principal (Curriculum)
• Toliaise and report to, as necessary, during visits by support agencies whomight be involved in the support of key areas of the curriculum[Educational Psychologist, Speech Therapist, Inclusive Education Service,Academy Doctor etc.]
• Toassess, record and report back on student achievement through Academyassessment procedures.

SUPPORT FOR THEACADEMY

• To beresponsible for a designated area/s for the development of the LearningSupport Faculty e.g. budget, subject area, enrichment.
• Collaborationwith colleagues and form effective working partnerships.
• Establisheffective working relationships with parents/carers that influence studentachievement.
• To beresponsible for safeguarding the confidential nature ofstudent/teacher/home issues.
• Tosupervise the maintenance of student safety and security, including breakand lunchtime duties in the faculty and taxi duties.
• To leadand/or contribute at Faculty/Pastoral meetings as appropriate.
• Attendand report back on student progress on specific subject areas at ParentEvenings.
• Torepresent the faculty at Open Evenings, Induction Evenings, InformationEvenings etc. as and when appropriate.
• Liaiseand visit other academies colleges to help with the transition process.
• CertainLevel 2 Teaching Assistants have specific additional responsibilities thatare unique to the post which needs to be included in individual jobdescriptions due to the level of coordination including staff, parents,outside agencies.