Teaching Assistant

Teaching Vacancies; Greater London; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Harris Allowance

Performance bonus

Pension scheme

Wellbeing cash plan

Job summary

Harris Academy South Norwood is seeking a Teaching Assistant to support individuals and groups, including those with SEND, in the classroom and to assist with personal needs. The actual salary for this role will be £26,809 (37.5 hours per week, 38 weeks per week).

The successful candidate will have degree-level qualifications, knowledge of SEND and strategies for working with students facing challenges, and a commitment to safeguarding. Excellent literacy, numeracy and ICT skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Degree-level qualification or equivalent is required.
• Basic knowledge of SEND and learning barriers.
• Some knowledge of strategies for young people with challenging behaviours.
• Awareness of health and safety issues in the workplace.
• Experience with young people in education or training environments.
• Ability to manage own workload and meet deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Supervise and support identified students in 1:1, group or class settings.
• Assist in developing resources and teaching strategies with the teacher.
• Provide feedback on progress and needs to inform teaching.
• Lead small group sessions and interventions as appropriate.
• Support with personal needs, behaviour management and lunchtime duties.
• Prepare classrooms, maintain resources and aid with displays.
• Maintain records and establish positive relationships with parents/carers.

Skills

Degree-level qualification

SEND awareness

Behaviour management

Learner engagement

Literacy and numeracy

Interpersonal skills

Organisation

ICT skills (Microsoft)

Teamwork across levels

Education

Degree level or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

What skills and experience we're looking for

Harris Academy South Norwood 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 £26,809 (37.5 hours per week, 38 weeks per week).

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 skillsAbility 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

What the school offers its staff

If you are looking for a diverse school with clear and effective behaviour policies and systems, a visible and supportive leadership team, useful but not onerous CPD, and frequent opportunities for promotion, then we are the school for you. We believe that our students need great outcomes to open doors that will help them make the best of their lives. Our students behave well, and so they achieve well. This is a product of our excellent behaviour systems. We have 6 non-teaching Heads of Year who support behaviour and welfare and run a fully centralised detention system. Exemplary behaviour can only be achieved through a highly visible Senior Leadership team, and they are constantly touring the Academy. CPD is bespoke, first and foremost in the subject and grounded in tried and tested methods of effective teaching such as modelling, questioning, literacy, practice and consolidation.

We are very fortunate to have excellent transport links to central London (some trains get to London Bridge in 11mins) and just 4 minutes on the train from East Croydon. The Clocktower campus is a 6 minute walk from Norwood Junction train station.

We also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package which includes our Harris Allowance for teachers on MPS/UPS, a Performance and Loyalty Bonus, Pension Scheme, a Wellbeing Cash Plan and many other benefits.

Further details about the role

Your responsibilities will include:

• Supervising and supporting identified students in 1:1, group or whole class situations, ensuring their safety and access to learning in a purposeful and supportive learning environment.
• Assisting in developing resources, schemes of work and teaching strategies, working with the teacher to ensure the provision supports learning needs.
• Assisting in evaluating identified students' progress and providing feedback on their achievements, progress and needs.
• Leading small group sessions and interventions as appropriate.
• Attending to students' personal needs where required.
• Supporting with behaviour management.
• Undertaking learning activities/teaching programmes, adjusting activities to ensure achievement of learning goals.
• Assisting with the supervision of students out of lesson times, including playtimes and undertaking lunchtime duty.
• Supporting students with their learning and development in respect of local and national learning strategies.
• Preparing the classroom for lessons, clearing afterwards and assisting with the display of students' work.
• Preparing and maintaining resources and assisting students in their use.
• Undertaking record keeping as requested.
• Establishing and maintaining positive relationships with parents/carers, gathering and reporting information as directed.
• Accompanying teaching staff and students on visits, trips and off site activities as required.

Commitment to safeguarding

The Harris Federation and all our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, references, an online search, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed.