Teaching Assistant - Uplands Swindon, Wiltshire, South West England, England
Job description
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.
As a growing Multi Academy Trust, now is a fantastic time to join our community of school support professionals. 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. It is unique, with a group of inspiring students and a team of supportive, nurturing and dedicated Teaching Assistants and Class Teachers who strive to give our students the most positive learning experiences possible as they move into adulthood.
Your role will be pivotal to our students and as part of the wider organisation’s community network. You will be part of an exciting phase as we work together to meet the end goal of our Trust: to collaborate and build a successful community of mainstream schools and SEND provisions to ensure our students have the education they deserve.
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
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: 29.5 per week
Salary: £10.85-£13.25 per hour
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Store discount
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
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
