Higher Learning Teaching Assistant - Carlisle, United Kingdom - North Lakes

North Lakes

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Carlisle, United Kingdom

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Description

North Lakes Children's Services is a well-established local provider of residential care and education for boys aged 7-18. We improve the resilience, self-esteem and abilities of all the young people we work with.

Our school is now an Accredited SILVER Award Attachment and Trauma Sensitive School, and we gained our first Outstanding Ofsted inspection in 2014

Higher Learning Teaching Assistant

Contract:
Full Time 41.5 hours, Permanent

Location:
Brampton/Haltwhistle

Salary:
£20,351.14 pro rata (£23,727.79 FTE for 52 weeks)

Benefits:

The role is term time only
Hours of work 8.30 to 17:00 Mon, to Thurs and 8.30 to 16.00 on Friday
39 weeks with the pupils plus 5.6 weeks holiday
Excellent training available

Job Purpose:

To enhance the learning of pupils who have a wide range of special educational and learning needs. To support the teaching staff in enabling the pupils to gain independence, participate fully in the curriculum and the general life of the school. To be adaptable, have empathy, and follow the school's policies and practices.

Duties and Responsibilities:

To support the improvement of wellbeing, readiness for learning, resilience and behaviour management within Kirby Moor School.
Work with members of the Education team to support students personal and academic development by removing barriers to students' learning.
To promote positive learning behaviour with students.
To discuss the debrief of incidents with pupils to gain a greater understanding of the incident and the support the child needs to prevent further incidents or to reduce the frequency of incidents.
To respond to immediate student concerns clarifying the situation.
To work within the schools' Inclusion provision.
To collaborate with the SENDCo to coordinate 1:1 Support Programme and develop this to establish and develop a counselling relationship with identified students in liaison with the SENDCo.
To prepare for, undertake and record all 1:1 sessions timetabled
To deliver lessons when required
To assist in the preparation of information relevant to the meetings about pupils

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