Graduate Teaching Assistant - Newham, United Kingdom - Keir Hardie Primary School

Description

Graduate Teaching Assistant - 1 Year Fixed Term Contract
Are you a postgraduate considering a career in teaching and would like the opportunity, prior to joining a Teacher Training Provider, to gain experience within the classrooms at a vibrant two-form entry mainstream school that serves a multicultural community in Canning Town?

Would you like to gain more experience of working with pupils with SEND as a stepping stone to becoming an Educational Psychologist or Speech and Language Therapist?

Would you like to develop yourself over the course of the next academic year as a Graduate Teaching Assistant?

Do you feel you could provide exceptional support for a Primary School as a Graduate Teaching Assistant?


If you have:

• Exceptional organisational and communication skills.
• A shared passion for the ethos of making a real difference to young people with the ability to motivate, inspire and have high expectations of students.
• A commitment to safeguarding and child protection.
• The ability to work as part of a team

If you are:

• A dynamic person looking for an opportunity to work within the education sector.
• Enthusiastic, committed, adaptable and positive.
• Excited to be part of a committed and caring Inclusion Support team supporting children to realise their potential.
• Passionate about children's learning and every child achieving their potential

Some of your key responsibilities will include:

• Providing particular and skilled support to students as directed by the Inclusion team
• To encourage the inclusion of students with SEND in a mainstream setting and to support highachieving students so that each individual student fulfils their potential.
• Understand specific learning needs and styles and provide adaptive support to students individually and within a group in partnership with the teacher.
• Implement planned learning activities/teaching programmes as agreed with the teacher, adjusting activities according to students' responses as appropriate.
• Establish positive relationships with students.

We can offer you:

• A competitive salary
• Robust school CPD training programme that enables you to flourish
• Outstanding learning behaviour from highly motivated pupils who love learning, have high aspirations and always show their MAGIC (Motivation, positive Attitude, Gumption, Independent and Communication) learning habits
• A chance to work at an Inclusion Quality Flagship School
• Opportunities to work with skilled colleagues and external professionals to share resources, ideas and build collaborative relationships
• A diverse school community where every day is filled with MAGIC
• Hardworking and innovative colleagues that thrive on working collaboratively to ensure that all pupils are effectively included and supported to succeed
• An environment with high expectations for all pupils, that inspires excellence
• A supportive leadership and staff team and ongoing professional development.
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Mental health and Wellbeing Support

If you are interested in joining our team, we would highly recommend that you visit the school.

(The full details can be found in the attached Job Description and Person Specification).

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