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The Opportunity

Brunel Academies Trust are a proud, growing educational community with a vision to be an exceptional creative education family opening doors, opening minds and changing lives. We strive to significantly improve the life chances and outcomes for our children and young people (CYP) whether they are within our SEND provisions or mainstream schools.

Uplands School is a high performing secondary school for students aged 11- 19 with severe, profound and multiple learning difficulties and autistic spectrum disorders. Rated Outstanding by Ofsted in 2022, our school is not like any other.

We require an enthusiastic individual to work with the class teacher providing support and assistance in the development of a student on a 1:1 basis, although you will have opportunities to work with other students within the class too.

The role will require a willingness to be trained to support in the use of specialist communication tools and equipment, including AAC (Alternative & Augmented Communication), updating Grid player software, following physio and speech and language programmes, feeding and supporting with personal care needs. Full training and support will be provided for all duties.

Your Role

The attached job description will detail your role in full. But at a glance, some of the key fields you will be responsible for include:

• To provide simple medical aid as and when necessary, and take all reasonable measures to ensure health and safety in the classroom and other relevant areas within and outside the school premises
• To provide care, attend to student’s personal needs and undertake activities necessary to meet the physical, emotional and educational requirements of individual students utilising a wide range of skills, with support and supervision from teaching staff and other professionals including speech therapist, physiotherapist, occupational therapist, school nurse
• To assist in supervising the activities of individual and small groups of students, who have complex needs, in order to ensure their safety, facilitate their education development and develop a supportive and caring relationship
• To support the teaching and learning of students by working with the teacher to deliver the curriculum
• Maintain records of student’s progress as instructed by the class teacher including input to monitoring and reviewing of work programme

Your Experience

Our person specification attached will contain the full areas of skills and experience, but it is really important to us that you feel comfortable and confident in your role, so although you may not have everything desirable, there are some essential features our appointee will need to have and these include:

• Basic knowledge in literacy and numeracy
• Effective communicator, modelling professional communication children/young people and other adults
• Ability to provide feedback on student participation and achievement
• Be highly motivated, able to follow instruction and work independently
• Willing to attend and contribute to meetings to discuss planning/issues with teachers and/or other staff as required
• Willing to undertake and implement training in manual handling, personal care (e.g. feeding and toileting), medical needs and fire evacuation procedure

Hours: 17.7hr pw over 3 days

Training: It is important to us to ensure you feel valued and supported in this exciting, rewarding and important role that you undertake therefore, relative training will be provided to the appointed applicant upon starting.

Benefits

Brunel Academies Trust is a rapidly developing Multi Academy Trust. We value our colleagues and the effort they put into our children and young people day in and out. Whether through continuous professional development (CPD) to feed your ambitions, personal and impartial support through challenging days or exciting and easy to use discounts to enjoy with friends and family, we have a package of excellent benefits which are available to all staff including:

• Support on continuous professional development (CPD) opportunities
• Brunel Perks – exclusive discounts on a range of products and retailers from cinema tickets, food shopping and holidays
• Discounts with Swindon Designer Outlet Village
• Carefirst – impartial counselling service in person, by video call or phone as well as a citizen’s advice function for advice and support on personal or professional queries
• Excellent pension scheme
• Free on-site parking
• Annual pay progression opportunities

Most importantly, we can promise that you will achieve a high level of job satisfaction through the professional family community our colleagues represent; and the positive impact your role will have on supporting and developing our children and young people’s futures. Your role matters.

To learn more about our Trust and our mission, please do visit our website at www .brunel.org.uk or for more information on this exciting opportunity please write to resourcing @ brunel.org.uk

Job Types: Part-time, Permanent
Part-time hours: 17.7 per week

Salary: £11.27-£13.25 per hour

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Employee discount

Schedule:

• Day shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Swindon: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

• Special education: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: In person