SEN Teaching Assistant

Location Derby
Discipline: Cover People UK
Job type: ANYTHING
Contact email: amelia@coverpeopleuk.co.uk
Job ref: J19047
Published: about 1 year ago
SEN Teaching Assistant Cover People are currently recruiting for a full time, SEN Teaching Assistant at Pupil Referral Unit located in Chesterfield and High Peak. The role will start ASAP and September 2023. This is a permanent position. Actual Salary £21,905 - £24,069. The Role The school are looking for a SEN Teaching Assistant to provide bespoke education packages to the Chestefield pupils at off- site locations and their homes. To ensure that pupils are physically seen and are safe and well. To work with other team members, agencies and parents/carers in a supportive and professional manner to best meet the needs of individual pupils. Other duties such as: • Tutor pupils on a 1:1 basis in off -site locations or their homes based on need • Have a caseload of pupils and take responsibility for their English and maths work. This is likely to be at entry level, Functional skill or low level GCSE • Support pupils with online learning, the set up of this and ensure they can access it • Baseline pupils to discover working levels in reading, spelling, English and maths • Be a keyworker for your caseload of pupils • Contribute to the reporting of the progress made by your pupils • Be aware of any pupils with EHCPs and their required learning needs • Contribute to the production of pupil information packs (PIPs) for your allocated pupils The candidate must have: • GCSE (or equivalent) Maths and English. • Recent inset experience • Of working with pupils who exhibit challenging behaviour and are disaffected. • Of supporting with the delivery of maths and English at entry level, functional skill or low- level GCSE • Ability to deliver maths and English at low level following a scheme of work towards a qualification • Of safeguarding and child protection policies and procedures • A wide variety of behaviour management strategies and techniques • Of confidentiality/data protection issues • Of the use of ICT (ie word processing, e-mail and internet capabilities) • Of how to contribute to the provision of a safe and supportive environment • Ability to diffuse and divert obstructive behaviour and assist all staff in maintaining agreed acceptable standards of pupil behaviour • A good team worker who can work in a collaborative manner under the direction of a variety of teaching staff • Willing to engage in any professional development activities which will aid the effective completion of tasks required by the post. • Promote and reinforce pupils’ self-esteem, independence and participation within the educational setting. • Excellent verbal and written communication skills and a good standard of numeracy • Ability to work flexibly and set your own diary making the best use of time • Equal opportunities - Knowledge of policy as it relates to the performance of duties • Of the complex difficulties facing pupils in their learning situations. • Of basic Health and Safety issues • Knowledge of differentiating work for pupils to ease access according to learning needs Desirable attributes • Of an off-site/small educational setting. • Of an alternative educational setting other than mainstream • Of peripatetic working • Of lone working • Ability to assist in Assessment, Recording and Reporting procedures as required by Teachers and the Head of Centre. • Knowledge of anger management or counselling techniques that can be used to support pupils • Knowledge of delivering phonics to pupils or developing literacy sessions • Of producing risk assessments for pupils • Of lone working and transporting pupils The School This is an Academy providing programmes of education to pupils identified as being at risk of exclusion, or who have already been permanently excluded from mainstream education. They meet the varied and complex needs of children in Key Stages 2, 3 and 4. The Benefits • Excellent pay rates • Full-time ongoing role • On-going support from both the school and your Consultant • Permanent position • CPD training All candidates are subject to standard safeguarding and employment checks including an online interview and DBS checks. Cover People are acting as an employment business on behalf of the school for this vacancy. For further information, please call Amelia at Cover People. Please get in touch with Amelia on 0161 505 0439 or amelia@coverpeopleuk.co.uk