Job Title: Teaching Assistant
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:31/01/2025
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
Would you like to play a key role in the life of our welcoming and friendly school?
Grainville School is looking for a Grade 6 Teaching Assistant with immediate effect.
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.
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 Lisa Solano at l.solano@@grainville.sch.je or call 01534 822914.
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.
To provide the teaching staff with appropriate support in the planning, implementation and monitoring of special educational programmes to meet the needs of individuals or small groups with special educational needs. To support the physical welfare of the students, both in an integrated and extraction situation and supervise medication as prescribed by a physician.
To provide offsite learning for individual and/or small groups of students at alternative educational sites.
Statutory Responsibilities
Supervise and provide particular support for students, including those with special needs, ensuring their safety and access to learning activities in line with the curriculum.
Plan individual programmes against learning objectives. Give 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. Implement agreed work programmes/practical lessons under the guidance of the teacher.
Accompany teaching staff on visits, trips and out of school activities where appropriate.
Supervise students at various offsite educational facilities.
Assist with the supervision of students out of lesson times where appropriate.
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 the appropriate follow-up action necessary through the agreed school policy. Contribute to specific reports when requested by consultants, GPs and parents on students with medical problems.
Provide clerical/administrative support e.g. photocopying, typing, filing, collecting money etc. Support and develop partnerships with parents, liaising with them, with the support of the teacher in charge and Senior Teaching Assistant/Team Leader, to ensure consistency in approach for the students.
Supervise whole classes occasionally during short-term absence of teachers. The primary focus will be to maintain good order and to keep students on task
Be aware of and comply with policies and procedures relating to child protection health, safety and security, confidentiality and data protection. Report all concerns to an appropriate person.
Liaise with staff in the area of student behaviour and SEN.
Qualifications
Numeracy/literacy skills to a minimum of level 2 standard
Knowledge
Ability to form positive relationships with students.
Can use ICT effectively to support learning.
Use of other equipment technology – video, photocopier.
Full working knowledge of relevant policies/codes of practice and awareness of relevant legislation.
Working knowledge of curriculum and other relevant learning programmes/strategies.
Technical Work Based Skills
Understanding of principles of child development and learning processes.
Ability to self-evaluate learning needs and actively seek learning opportunities.
Ability to relate well to children and adults.
Work constructively as part of a team, understanding classroom roles and responsibilities and your own position within these.
Knowledge of Health and Safety.
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.
Have an understanding of the range of support services/providers/agencies.
The ability to communicate at all levels while exercising a high degree of confidentiality is essential.
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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