Level Teaching Assistant

Are you a dedicated and experienced educator passionate about making a difference in the lives of Children with Special Educational Needs (SEN)? Co-op Academy Delius is a high achieving, friendly academy for pupils from 2-11 years with a range of complex educational and medical needs, we have an exciting opportunity for a Higher Level Teaching Assistant, where you'll play a pivotal role in our SEN educational provision supporting every child to reach their full potential.

We are seeking a dedicated and experienced Higher Level Teaching Assistant to join our team and play a key role in supporting our students and colleagues. If you are passionate about education and enjoy working with children, this could be the perfect opportunity for you. The purpose of the role is to work in partnership with class teachers to support learning in line with the national curriculum, codes of practice and academy policies and procedures.

You will also provide small group interventions using specific programmes as directed.

The main duties will involve:

• Planning, preparing and delivering learning activities for pupils and monitoring pupils and assessing, recording and reporting on pupil’s achievement, progress and development.
• To provide cover when required for teacher absence.
• To work under the guidance of the class teacher to support teaching and learning in the classroom
• To provide general support to the class teacher in the management and organisation of the pupils and the classroom
• To run small group interventions to close gaps or to meet specific SEND needs
• To assist the teacher in creating and maintaining a purposeful, orderly and supportive learning environment
• To promote the inclusion of all pupils ensuring they have equal access to opportunities to learn and develop
• To be responsible for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people within school
• Promote positive pupil behaviour in line with academy policies for culture for learning
• Monitor and record pupil responses and learning achievements, resolving all but the most complex problems independently

As our Higher Level Teaching Assistant you will have:

• excellent communication skills and be able to build good relationships with young people and adults
• an ability to deal with students and staff so that they feel they have been dealt with consistently and fairly
• an ability to convey authority and earn students respect, with the ability to make good decisions really fast.
• the ability to show initiative whilst knowing when to take advice
• good judgement over matters of confidentiality and integrity in dealing with sensitive information about students
• strong IT skills with the ability to positively respond to training in the use of school IT packages.

This role is customer facing and therefore in line with the Immigration Act 2016; all applicants must be able to demonstrate fluency of the English Language to the level defined in the Job Description. Candidates invited to our recruitment day will be expected to complete several tasks; be observed in the classroom and be interviewed, in order to recruit staff of the highest professional quality.

Why us?

At Co-op Academy Delius, we strive to provide a personalised, ambitious and challenging curriculum with the highest of expectations where pupils are given a voice and are encouraged to be independent and actively participate in their education. Our curriculum is planned to promote pupils acquiring skills and knowledge which they are able to retain and recall, enabling them to live their lives to the fullest and access society.

Our academy community is passionate and creates innovative learning opportunities in exceptional learning environments whilst promoting holistic as well as academic…