Teaching Assistant

Bexhill High Academy; Bexhill-on-Sea; On-site; GBP 19,000 - 23,000; Full time

Job summary

Mulberry Academy Bexhill is seeking staff to provide focused support for students, including those with special educational needs. You will work with teachers to create personalised learning resources, monitor progress and help ensure high attendance and engagement across the curriculum.

Role involves safeguarding responsibilities and contributing to assessments, while maintaining confidentiality and supporting homework and mentoring as required.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting SEND students
• Commitment to safeguarding policies
• Ability to work with teaching staff to personalise resources

Responsibilities

• Deliver targeted support to students with SEND to maximise progress across the curriculum.
• Create an ethos of high aspirations that fits with academy values.
• Maximise achievement and progress of vulnerable students.
• Maintain confidentiality on all academy matters.
• Promote and reinforce good student engagement and attendance.
• Help remove barriers to learning so all students access the curriculum.
• Promote inclusion and acceptance of all students within the classroom.
• Work with the teacher to establish an appropriate learning environment.
• Assist in lesson planning, evaluating and adjusting lessons/work plans including personalised resources.
• Monitor and record pupils' responses to learning activities against objectives.
• Implement agreed learning activities/teaching programmes and adjust activities as needed.
• Keep and update records as directed and contribute to reviews of systems/records.
• Contribute to formative assessment of student progress.
• Support administration of assessments and external exams as directed.
• Be aware of and comply with safeguarding policies and procedures.

Job description

Teachers and support staff at Mulberry Academy Bexhill make the education of their pupils their first concern. They seek to achieve the highest possible standards in work and conduct, act with integrity and have strong subject knowledge. Through endeavour, they keep their knowledge and skills as current as possible, remaining at the forefront of pedagogy and educational research.

Principal Accountabilities:

to deliver targeted support to students with SEND to maximise their progress across the curriculum.

What do you have to achieve?

• create an ethos of high aspirations that fits with the academy values.
• maximise the achievement and progress of vulnerable students
• maintain confidentiality on all academy matters.
• promote and reinforce good student engagement and attendance
• help to remove barriers to learning by ensuring that all students are able to access the curriculum.
• promote the inclusion and acceptance of all students within the classroom

What do you have to do – based on our TA Mantras? Know your Students:

• to work with the teacher to establish an appropriate learning environment
• to work with teaching staff in lesson planning, evaluating and adjusting lessons/work plans as appropriate including the personalisation of individual resources
• to monitor and evaluate pupils' responses to learning activities through observation and planned recording of achievement against predetermined learning objectives
• to implement agreed learning activities/teaching programmes, adjusting activities according to students' responses/needs
• to be responsible for keeping and updating records as directed and contribute to the review of systems/records as requested
• to contribute to the formative assessment of student progress
• to support the administration of assessments and external exams as directed
• to be aware of and comply with policies and procedures relating to safeguarding
• to provide support for homework club
• to act as a mentor for identified students as directed