Job Title: Teaching Assistant (4) St Luke
Post requires candidate to be entitled for work: Yes
Hourly rate: £16.52
Contract Type: Permanent
Full time/Part Time: Part Time
Term Time only post: Yes
Advert Closing Date:23/04/2025
By joining the Government of Jersey and wider Jersey Public Services, you'll be proud of what you can achieve – both for yourself and the people of Jersey. You'll enjoy a broader scope that allows you to express yourself, in a smaller setting that means you see the positive results of your impact every day. You'll have a diversity of opportunities that stretch and challenge you, with all the personal and professional support you need. Most of all, in our open, welcoming environment, your voice matters, enabling you to build a rewarding career.
Job Overview
An exciting fantastic opportunity has become available to join our close-knit team at St Luke’s School in the role of Teaching Assistant.
Enjoy a rewarding education career and have a real impact on children’s lives. Join an amazing team making our school and classrooms supportive, enriching places where children achieve far more than they ever expected. As a Teaching Assistant, you will connect directly with the brilliant children we care for, helping to make sure they get the very best from their education. Each individual has so much potential, and they will rely on you to guide their learning journeys.
The school provides a caring, nurturing environment and with the ethos of the school rooted in inclusivity, the staff work together with pupils and parents to create a culture of mutual respect and care for each other.
Job Purpose
To work under the direct instruction of Teaching Staff, usually in the classroom, to support access to learning for students and provide general support to the teacher in the management of students and the classroom. To encourage children to treat each other with respect and to follow the school’s behaviour policy at all times
Job Specific Outcomes
To assist the teachers in the implementation of the curriculum through the delivery of teacher directed programmes for groups of children or individuals.
Contribute to the planning and preparation for curriculum lessons and other learning programmes / strategies, ensuring that teaching resources are adequate for both teachers and children’s needs.
Support appropriate learning programmes, recording achievements and progress and providing appropriate feedback.
Accompany teaching staff on visits, trips and out of school activities where appropriate. Assist with the supervision of students out of lesson times, including before and after school.
Attend to the students’ personal needs and implement related personal programmes including social, health, physical, 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.
Provide clerical / administrative support eg photo copying, filing, typing, collecting money etc.
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. Participate in training and other learning activities and performance development as required
Qualifications
- Commitment to undertake NVQ / CACHE level 2 or equivalent accredited qualification in Teaching and Learning.
- Numeracy and literacy skills equivalent to Level 2 or commitment to complete.
- Commitment to undertake Level 1 Safeguarding training.
Knowledge
- Child Protection training.
- Experience of working with children.
- Experience of supervising pupils.
- Awareness of confidentiality and data protection principles.
- Knowledge of child development and learning.
Technical Work Based Skills
- Use of Technology to support job role (e.g. Outlook, Word, Excel, TEAMS).
General skills / attributes
- Basic knowledge of health and safety.
- The ability to plan effective actions for students who require support to progress their learning
- Ability to be able to respond to the pupils’ individual needs, and implement related personal programmes, including social, health, physical and welfare matters.
- Care for sick, distressed and injured pupils in line with the agreed school first aid policy.
- Resilience and a willingness to learn and develop their practice including self - study.
- Commitment to improving the lived experience of pupils and their families.
- A need to show compassion, be focused, helpful and reflective.
- Ability to keep calm in sometimes very difficult circumstances and the ability to intervene when necessary.
Experience
- Experience of working with or caring for children of relevant age or 2 years’ experience of working with students
- Awareness of confidentiality and data protection principles.
- Effective written communication.
- Experience in providing care to individuals within the care sector or working with children.
- Awareness of relevant policies, codes of practice and awareness of relevant legislation.
- First Aid and EPI pen training.
Across the Government of Jersey and public service, the scope of our work means our people enjoy a wider range of opportunities – to work with recognised experts across teams, learn new skills and develop their careers. We actively look to recruit people from different backgrounds, with diverse perspectives. This creates a richer, more varied environment, where you’re exposed to new ideas, new ways of thinking and new opportunities, so you can develop an exciting and rewarding career.
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