Job Title: Lead Keyworker - ARC - Grainville
Post requires candidate to be entitled for work: Yes
Hourly rate: £20.21
Contract Type: Permanent
Full time/Part Time: Part Time
Term Time only post: Yes
Advert Closing Date: 07/07/2025
Job Overview
Grainville is seeking to appoint a skilled Teaching Assistant to be part of our hardworking team. The successful candidate will be committed to an inclusive education and have experience supporting children with a range of needs.
This role is a permanent position, graded at TAF06 and involves working 32.5 hours per week. The pro-rated salary ranges from £28,112.11 to £31,088.85 per annum.
Previous school experience is preferable for this role and an understanding of a range of learning and behaviour support strategies is desirable. For further information regarding the role, please contact Andy Mesch a.mesch@grainville.sch.je or call 01534 822928.
Grainville is an inclusive school and is committed to the safeguarding and wellbeing of all students and young people.
Job Purpose
- To provide the teaching staff with appropriate support in the planning, implementation and monitoring of education programmes to enable access to learning of students and to assist the teacher in the management of students and the classroom.
- Where appropriate to provide the teaching staff with support in the planning, implementation of special educational programmes to meet the needs of individuals or small groups with special educational needs.
- Implement 1:1 and whole class sessions for pupils including children with special educational needs, planning and delivering and evaluating interventions.
- To support the physical welfare of the students both in an integrated and extraction situation and supervise medication as prescribed by a physician.
- To encourage children to treat each other with respect and to follow the schools behaviour policy at all times.
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Job Specific Outcomes
- Take lead responsibility for coordinating a school activity. To supervise and assess the students in planned activities within the curriculum areas in a manner best suited to the individual needs.
- Plan individual programmes against learning objectives, feedback to the team on the progress and behaviour of the individual group or pupil within the special needs area. Observe and monitor the development of specific students, recording appropriately and applying this knowledge to future planning.
- Supervise and provide particular support for students including those with special needs ensuring the safety and access to learning activities in line with the curriculum.
- Accompany teaching staff on visits, trips and out of school activities where appropriate. Transporting and supporting physically disabled and special needs students where necessary.
- Attend to the students personal needs, and implement related personal programmes, including social and emotional wellbeing, health, hygiene and welfare matters. Care for sick, distressed and injured children, carrying out the necessary first aid and take appropriate follow up action as necessary and within school policy. Contribute to specific reports when requested from external agencies ie specifically consultants, GPs and parents on students with medical problems.
- To support and develop partnerships with parents, liaising with them, with the support of the teacher in charge and Team Leader, to ensure consistency in approach for the students.
- Be aware of and comply with policies and procedures relating to child protection, health, safety and security, confidentiality and data protection. Share information about pupils with other staff, parents, carers, internal and external agencies, as appropriate. Repot all concerns to an appropriate person.
Qualifications
- Numeracy and literacy skills equivalent to Level 2
- NVQ level 3 or equivalent in childcare, or diploma in childcare Education at Level 3.
- Appropriate First Aid qualification. Specific intervention keyworker training eg live handling and welfare procedures.
Knowledge
- Child Protection training.
- Awareness of confidentiality and data protection principles. Full working knowledge of relevant policies, codes of practice and awareness of relevant legislation.
- Working knowledge fo curriculum and other relevant learning programmes / strategies.
- Knowledge of child development and learning.
General skills / attributes
Essential
- Ability to plan effective actions for students who require support to progress their learning or who require specific support to facilitate their accessing of learning opportunities.
Desirable
- The understanding of the range of support services, agencies, providers and knowledge of their effective use.
Experience
- Experience of working with or caring for children of relevant age.
- Minimum of 2-3 years experience of working with students.
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