SEN Teaching Assistants

Overview

What skills and experience we're looking for We are looking to appoint an exceptional candidate, for Stoberry Park Primary School who:

• Will be enthusiastic, flexible and highly motivated working alongside the class teacher to support a child 1:1 across all areas of the curriculum
• Will be responsible for ensuring the child has full access to the national curriculum and will use a range of strategies to ensure the child makes progress
• Will be required to work under the direction of the class teacher and liaise with other professionals both within and outside the school
• Will be responsible for working with an individual pupil and with small groups
• Will be expected to show a high degree of initiative and be able to react to situations with integrity and compassion
• Will have experience of working with children, ideally within a school environment
• Can inspire and motivate children and enable them to be the best that they can be
• Has the ability to encourage every child to learn and achieve and has enthusiasm, skill and desire to make a difference
• Has a passion to ensure high expectations for all ensuring that they make outstanding progress
• Can plan, prepare and promote constructive play during the lunchtime period

What the school offers its staff We live our mission of Excellence through Cultivating Character, Sharing Talents and Pursuing Innovation, and return to this constantly to help guide every action.

At the heart of all we do is the pursuit of excellence; we want to grow an exceptional trust, comprised of excellent schools.

We are achieving this through our shared core values of Collaboration, Community, Integrity, Equity, and of course Uncompromising Excellence.

We are truly collaborative and we work together within, and across, our schools to ensure that all our children and members of staff achieve their potential.

Together we work to create a full and rich curriculum offer allowing everyone to flourish

• we translate our vision of excellence into our every-day practice.

We are proud of our successful learning outcomes, but we aspire to achieve more than just academic excellence for our children.

We also want our children to become successful learners, healthy thinkers, curious explorers, caring citizens, knowledgeable participants and confident individuals.

Commitment to safeguarding Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.

We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

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