Teaching Assistant - Dorchester, United Kingdom - Dorset Council

Dorset Council

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Dorchester, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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About The Role:

31.25 hours per week - 37 weeks and 4 days per year (which includes three inset days)

Grade 5, point 5, £16,548 - £17,505 per annum (full time equivalent: £23,500 - £23,893)

We are seeking to appoint an innovative Teaching Assistant to support students in school and in our specialist Complex Communication Needs base.

You will be skilled at engaging and motivating students who find learning and communicating a challenge, in the classroom as well as during intervention groups.

Our CCN base is a provision which supports 9 students, who are fully integrated in to our mainstream school alongside their peers.

These students are offered additional resources, intervention and at times different spaces to work as needed, in order to help them succeed in school.

As a CCN base teaching assistant, you will be supporting students with special educational needs, specifically autism and associated difficulties.

Aiding the teacher to deliver the curriculum, you will help children and young people to understand and access activities and overcome challenging behaviour both in the main classroom and in the base.

We are looking for someone who is

Enthusiastic and committed to the learning needs of all young people
Good at building relationships with young people and other adults
Qualified at least to level 2 (grade C or above at GCSE) in English and Maths
Able to communicate effectively and maintain confidentiality
Adaptable, flexible, proactive and relentlessly optimistic

We can offer excellent working conditions, a supportive environment and training. The superb facilities include modern designated facilities for all curriculum areas, an on-site nursery and a new sports complex.

Further Information:

This role is UK- based and your right to work will need to be established as part of the appointment process.

The pro rata salary shown is based on the number of hours and weeks worked and includes appropriate paid annual leave and bank holiday entitlements.

The salary quoted is the annual salary for the position at the time of advert.

The salary will be paid in equal monthly instalments and will be adjusted at the start of employment and again if leaving part way through the school year to ensure the correct salary is received for the work completed in an academic year.