SEN Teaching Assistant

We are looking for a Teaching Assistant to join our school.

This is an exciting opportunity to join Five Acres High School and become an integral member of the support team.

Five Acres High School is one of the top
3.5% of schools nationally for progress and recently rated ‘Good’ by OFSTED Our world class school quality mark and school of character kitemark plus show this.

This is a school that will give you an opportunity to demonstrate you are remarkable.

Our values are ambition, confidence, creativity, determination and respect and we pride ourselves on ensuring students work towards our mission which is to encourage students to ‘Aim High, Work Hard and Be Kind’. Greenshaw Learning Trust is a highly successful multi academy trust that provides excellent quality, comprehensive, non-selective and inclusive education through primary schools and secondary schools.

Our schools are based in London, Surrey, Berkshire, Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire, Bristol and Plymouth.

We also have three shared service hubs where our central teams can be based out of.

We are building a family of like-minded schools, that collaborate to provide mutual support, share their good practice and learn from each other, whilst retaining and developing their own distinctive character.

We thrive from collaboration at every level.

We encourage a culture of sharing ideas and learning from one another.

As a Trust of schools, we are ‘Always Learning’. To get a feel of life at Greenshaw Learning Trust, please download our ‘Why you should work for GLT’ recruitment brochure on our job’s portal.

• Under the direction of the school’s SENDCO work alongside members of the Learning Support Team;
• To support students with learning, physical, medical, emotional and behavioural difficulties to access the curriculum, make appropriate progress and develop appropriate classroom behaviour
• To actively promote and contribute to the academy ethos and values
• To support teachers in facilitating and encouraging learning, which enables students to achieve high standards and to become independent learners
• To contribute to the evaluation of the school’s SEND Policy and Inclusion Policy and practice through discussions with relevant staff
• To attend appropriate in-service training provided by the school or local authority
• To attend school team meetings and meetings with external agencies as required and to prepare reports for these meetings, if required
• To provide in-class support for identified individual students or small groups of students (e.g. 4-5 students), including specialist subject support as appropriate.
• Under the direction of the class teacher, to assist in the management of the whole class through the overt modelling of effective behaviour management techniques.
• Under the direction of a class teacher or SENDCO to develop and lead small group work for identified students (e.g. reading schemes, phonics, spelling, numeracy and social skills to groups of 4-5 students) and to contribute to the appropriate paperwork for these groups.
• To assist in the production of teaching and learning materials for students, including differentiating the materials.
• To provide support, to include personal care if required, for student(s) experiencing physical or medical difficulties (following training)
• To provide before and after school support for identified students as required.
• To provide regular feedback to the class teacher and to the SENDCO or the relevant line manager.
• To use appropriate systems for recording the progress of students with behavioural and learning difficulties.
• To provide data and information to inform Annual and Transition Review paperwork, PSPs (Pastoral Support Programmes), Student Profile documentation and Academic Reporting.
• To undertake assessment of students and to provide data to the relevant member(s) of staff for analysis.
• To provide support to identified students undertaking tests/exams to enable them to make full use of their access arrangements.
• To liaise with parents/carers as appropriate and professionals (e.g. Educational Psychologist) as required.
• To liaise with other teams across the school to ensure all student…