Teaching Assistant

Tor View School; Tavistock; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

Tor View School is expanding and searching for a committed Teaching Assistant to support their education team starting September 2024. The role involves assisting children with their work, fostering good relationships, and adapting to individual needs. The school, known for its exceptional environment and support for students with Autism and other challenges, offers excellent training opportunities and a welcoming team of colleagues.

Benefits

Exclusive access to reward and discount scheme

Commitment to ongoing training and career progression

Paid for enhanced PVG/DBS

Cycle to work scheme

Wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Experience in Special Educational Needs (SEN) required.
• Ability to adapt practice to support across all key stages.
• Strong relationship skills to act as a role model.

Responsibilities

• Assist children with their work and pupil behaviour.
• Establish good relationships with pupils and respond to individual needs.
• Help plan lessons by preparing materials and resources.

Skills

Versatility

Resilience

Adaptability

Relationship Building

Education

Experience in SEN

Job description

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Due to expansion, Aspris Tor View School are recruiting for a Teaching Assistant to join our Education team from September 2024! We are looking for versatile, resilient and committed Teaching Assistants, who can adapt their practice wherever necessary to support across all key stages. The successful candidate will work alongside the class teacher, assisting the children with their work and supporting with pupil behaviour while establishing good relationships with pupils, acting as a role model and responding to individual needs.

• Exclusive access to reward and discount scheme
• Commitment to your ongoing training and career progression
• Paid for enhanced PVG/DBS
• Cycle to work scheme and more!

Tor View School is a very special school that is expanding its capacity to enable more young people with Autism, trauma related interruptions, communication needs and learning difficulties to access an appropriate curriculum in a wonderful environment in the heart of Devon. With typical class sizes of 4 we are able to provide the care, attention, time and dedication to all of the young people to enable them to access education and reach their individual goals and aspirations.

We have been rated as ‘Good’ overall and ‘Outstanding’ in the assessment categories ‘Behaviour and attitudes’, ‘Personal development’ and ‘Leadership and management’ by Ofsted.

In the recent Ofsted report, inspectors said: ‘Pupils shine at this happy and effective school. They feel valued and safe because staff understand their needs and how to meet them. Staff promote positive relationships very effectively. They secure a holistic view of pupils needs and challenges. This helps ensure that pupils benefit from tailored, personalised programmes of study.’

If you have experience in SEN and want to make a real difference to lives in an environment that has the needs of the young person at the heart of what we do, you should join us. We need dedicated, skilled and experienced staff. We offer a bespoke training programme and like minded colleagues that want to improve the lives of the young people as well as develop their personal expertise and experience with such complex needs.

Your day to day duties would involve:

• Working with the class teacher, assisting the children with their work and supporting with pupil behaviour
• Establishing good relationships with pupils, acting as a role model and responding to individual needs
• Encouraging pupils to interact with others and engage in activities
• Helping to plan lessons by preparing materials and resources

At Aspris Children’s Services, we are immensely proud of the career pathway and training we can offer you. As long as you can demonstrate the values needed for a role, transferable skills and life experience, we will give you all the training and support you need to progress!

Safeguarding Statement

Tor View School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.We particularly welcome applications from under represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.

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Due to expansion, Aspris Tor View School are recruiting for a Teaching Assistant to join our Education team from September 2024! We are looking for versatile, resilient and committed Teaching Assistants, who can adapt their practice wherever necessary to support across all key stages. The successful candidate will work alongside the class teacher, assisting the children with their work and supporting with pupil behaviour while establishing good relationships with pupils, acting as a role model and responding to individual needs.

Benefits:

Exclusive access to reward and discount scheme

Blue Light discount card

Flexible working

Comprehensive induction

Commitment to your ongoing training and career progression

Paid for enhanced PVG/DBS

Wellbeing support

Cycle to work scheme and more!

Tor View School is a very special school that is expanding its capacity to enable more young people with Autism, trauma related interruptions, communication needs and learning difficulties to access an appropriate curriculum in a wonderful environment in the heart of Devon. With typical class sizes of 4 we are able to provide the care, attention, time and dedication to all of the young people to enable them to access education and reach their individual goals and aspirations.

We have been rated as ‘Good’ overall and ‘Outstanding’ in the assessment categories ‘Behaviour and attitudes’, ‘Personal development’ and ‘Leadership and management’ by Ofsted.

In the recent Ofsted report, inspectors said: ‘Pupils shine at this happy and effective school. They feel valued and safe because staff understand their needs and how to meet them. Staff promote positive relationships very effectively. They secure a holistic view of pupils needs and challenges. This helps ensure that pupils benefit from tailored, personalised programmes of study.’

If you have experience in SEN and want to make a real difference to lives in an environment that has the needs of the young person at the heart of what we do, you should join us. We need dedicated, skilled and experienced staff. We offer a bespoke training programme and like minded colleagues that want to improve the lives of the young people as well as develop their personal expertise and experience with such complex needs.

Your day to day duties would involve:

Working with the class teacher, assisting the children with their work and supporting with pupil behaviour

Establishing good relationships with pupils, acting as a role model and responding to individual needs

Encouraging pupils to interact with others and engage in activities

Helping to plan lessons by preparing materials and resources

At Aspris Children’s Services, we are immensely proud of the career pathway and training we can offer you. As long as you can demonstrate the values needed for a role, transferable skills and life experience, we will give you all the training and support you need to progress!

Safeguarding Statement

Tor View School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.We particularly welcome applications from under represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.