Class Support Assistant

Overview

Class Support Assistant at a Specialist School

Grow your career, support children with autism, and make a real difference in this term-time only position!

Are you passionate about helping children with special educational needs reach their full potential? We're looking for a dedicated and enthusiastic Class Support Assistant to join the team at our client, a highly-rated, specialist school for autistic children aged 4-19.

This is a fantastic opportunity to play a vital role in our pupils' academic, social, and emotional development. Working alongside a committed teaching team, you ll help deliver engaging learning activities and prepare essential lesson materials. Your duties will also include supervising pupils during play times and meal times, and assisting with off-site educational visits.

A key part of this role involves building positive relationships with children, teachers, and parents, and promoting our pupils  independence through personal care and hygiene support.

This is a term-time only position, offering a healthy work-life balance.

• Supporting the social and emotional development of pupils.
• Assisting in the delivery of engaging learning activities.
• Preparing lesson materials and pupil programmes.
• Aiding with off-site educational visits.
• Supervising pupils during indoor and outdoor play times and mealtimes.
• Maintaining a clean and safe learning environment.
• Providing personal care to promote hygiene and independence.
• Building positive and collaborative relationships with pupils, teachers, and parents.

• Positive, enthusiastic, and fun-loving.
• Passionate about helping others and contributing to a team.
• Interested in child development and learning disabilities.
• Comfortable providing personal and intimate care.
• Resilient when supporting pupils with challenging behaviours.
• An excellent communicator with strong teamwork skills.

Experience working with children is desirable, and relevant qualifications are a definite advantage.

Please note:

Due to our school's remote location, reliable transportation is essential. Unfortunately, we cannot support applications from those without it.

• Salary: £22,063 FTE
• Hours:
  
  36.75 hours per week (part-time options available)
• Schedule:
  
  Term-time only

This is an urgent position, and we strongly encourage qualified and immediately available candidates to apply without delay. Please submit your CV, outlining your qualifications and experience, today!

Experience working with children is desirable, and relevant qualifications are a definite advantage.

Additional keywords and cross-cutting competencies include: ability to track progression in attainment, background in youth work, behaviour management, building relationships, classroom management, communication, de-escalation techniques, empathy, experience in administering medication, experience in managing challenging behaviour, experience with autism spectrum disorders, experience with learning difficulties, experience with social emotional mental health, inclusiveness, manual handling, marking, mentor experience, personal care experience, planning, resilience, restraint training, speech and language therapy experience.

Education:

college or university; qualifications in CACHE, health and social care, HLTA levels, NVQ levels, or equivalent.

Submit your CV and outline your qualifications and experience. This is an urgent role, so please apply promptly.