Teaching Assistant

Oliver House School is recruiting for a Teaching Assistant to join our Education team now. The successful candidate will work alongside the class teacher, assisting the children with their work and supporting pupil behaviour while establishing good relationships, acting as a role model and responding to individual needs.

Benefits

• Exclusive access to reward and discount scheme
• Comprehensive induction
• Commitment to ongoing training and career progression
• Pension scheme
• Paid for enhanced DBS
• Wellbeing support
• Cycle to work scheme
• And more!

Oliver House School is an independent specialist day and residential school for boys and girls aged 6 to 19 who have autism and complex learning needs. Our aim is to bring about the best in every young person to enable them to achieve positive experiences and progress according to their own individual abilities.

We offer a comprehensive induction and ongoing training, supporting your career progression and lifelong learning.

Key Skills & Qualities

• Resilience
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  Supporting vulnerable children with varying degrees of emotional and behavioural difficulties, autism, ADHD and associated challenges may test your resilience.
• Communication
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  Communicating with our young people is vital to understand their needs, and strong teamwork and communication ensure important information is relayed to other staff.
• Organisation
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  Strong organisational skills are important to support the class teacher and young people with educational activities.
• Caring
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  Our young people require the best care; naturally caring and compassionate individuals will thrive.
• Attentive
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  No two tasks will be the same, so being attentive to understand them and identifying areas where we can support is important.

Above all, we provide a supportive and collaborative working environment where you can flourish in your career and feel rewarded by helping those who need it most.

All applicants must be willing to undergo safeguarding screening appropriate to the post, including checks with Disclosure & Barring Service, and provide at least two references covering the last three years from where you have worked with children or vulnerable adults.