Job Title: Teaching Assistant (6) - St Peter
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:16/03/2025
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
St. Peter’s School is seeking to appoint a friendly and enthusiastic teaching assistant to join our school on a permanent basis. This position is open to individuals with experience in KS1, KS2 and/or Early Years. The successful candidate will be energetic, committed, and have excellent team skills. They will be joining a hard-working and close-knit team within a fantastic setting, working with engaged and motivated children. They will be encouraged to play a full part in wider school activities within the broader life of the school.
We strive to be a supportive, open and respectful community, where staff feel valued and have opportunities to be fulfil their potential as we are a learning community. For an informal discussion or any questions please contact Nasima Rashid – n.rashid@stpeter.sch.je or call 01534 481536
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.
Person specification
| ATTRIBUTES | ESSENTIAL | DESIRABLE |
| 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 of curriculum and other relevant learning programmes / strategies. Knowledge of child development and learning. | |
| Technical / Work-based Skills | Training in the relevant strategies eg SEBD literacy and/or in particular curriculum or learning areas eg bilingual, sign language level 1, signed English, and signed supported English, Makaton, Spell 1 and 2 and a commitment to further training relevant to this role. | |
| General Skills/Attributes | 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. | 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 children. |
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.
Provide clerical / administrative support eg photocopying, typing, filing, collecting money etc.
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.
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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