Teaching Assistant- Mental Health Support - Bury St. Edmunds, United Kingdom - Breakthrough in Education

Breakthrough in Education

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Bury St. Edmunds, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Are you looking for a new challenge where you can work in a rewarding, fun role that helps you to a career working with children?

We have teamed up with a great school in the Bury St Edmunds area who are looking for full or part-time Teaching assistants who can become part of their team of diverse professionals.

As a Teaching Assistant, you will be in a small class of 8-10 pupils who require extra support to achieve everything they can.

You will work 1:1 with pupils throughout lessons helping them to work towards their educational targets under the guidance of an experienced teacher.

Additionally, the pupils have out-of-classroom activities within the timetable which you will also be required to support the pupils on.

This could include:
playing a multitude of sports off-site, learning forest schools, cooking sessions, and high ropes.

The school are looking for someone who is a good role model, enthusiastic, and a good motivator to young people.

Job description

Pay is £7585 per day
Working with a team of TAs and a Teacher with class sizes of 8 10 pupils.
Supporting the teacher to help the pupils reach their educational goals
Preparing the classroom for lessons and keeping the class tidy
Working 1:1 with pupils and in small groups
Hours will be from 8:3015:30
Dealing with challenging behaviour and learning deescalation skills.
Will be calm and patient with a real passion to help young people.
Ideally experience or an understanding of young people.
Have great communication skills to communicate effectively with pupils and staff
Be able to adapt behaviour deescalation techniques if required
Kind and trustworthy