Senior Teaching Assistant

About this Role

Support for students

•  Use specialist skills/training/experience to support students in a range of settings (Learning Support,

Compass, mainstream classrooms)

•  Assist with the development and implementation of SEND support plans
• Deliver agreed interventions to small groups of students as directed by the Line Manager
•  Establish productive working relationships with students, acting as a role model and setting high

expectations

•  Promote the inclusion and acceptance of all students within the classroom
•  Support students consistently whilst recognising and responding to their individual SEND needs
•  Encourage students to interact and work co-operatively with others to engage all students in activities
•  Promote independence and employ strategies to recognise and reward achievement of self-reliance
•  Provide feedback to students in relation to progress and achievement
•  –   Liaise and work closely with the Exams department to ensure that SEND students get appropriate support in line with access arrangements for examinations.

Supporting the Line Manager

• Work with the Line Manager to establish an appropriate learning environment
• Monitor and evaluate students’ responses to learning activities through observation and planned recording of achievement against pre-determined learning objectives
• Provide objective and accurate feedback and reports as required to the Line Manager on student achievement, progress and other matters, ensuring the availability of appropriate evidence
• Be responsible for keeping and updating records as agreed with the Line Manager, contributing to reviews of systems/records as requested
• Undertake marking of students’ work and accurately record achievement/progress
• Promote positive values, attitudes and good student behaviour, dealing promptly with conflict and incidents in line with established policy and encourage students to take responsibility for their own behaviour
• Liaise sensitively and effectively with parents/carers as agreed with the Line Manager within your role/responsibility and participate in feedback sessions/meetings where appropriate
• Administer and assess routine tests and invigilate exams/tests
• Provide general clerical/administration support e.g. administer coursework, produce worksheets for agreed activities etc

A    Attend meetings/reviews with parents /carers and internal and external agencies, and take minutes

Support for the curriculum

• Implement agreed learning activities/teaching programmes, adjusting activities according to student responses/needs
• Implement local and national learning strategies e.g. literacy, numeracy, and make effective use of opportunities provided by other learning activities to support the development of relevant skills
• Support the use of ICT in learning activities and develop students’ competence and independence in its use
• Help students to access learning activities through specialist support
• Determine the need for, prepare and maintain general and specialist equipment and resources
• Lesson planning, evaluating and adjusting lessons/work plans as appropriate
• Liaise with KS 4 Co-ordinator and members of faculties re: students’ progress and supply of work

Support for the school

• Be aware of and comply with policies and procedures relating to child protection, health, safety and security, confidentiality and data protection, reporting all concerns to an appropriate person
• Be aware of and support difference and ensure all students have equal access to opportunities to learn and develop
• Contribute to the overall ethos/work/aims of the school
• Establish constructive relationships and communicate with other agencies/professionals, in liaison with the Line Manager, to support achievement and progress of students
• Attend and participate in regular meetings
• Participate in training and other learning activities as required
• Recognise own strengths and areas of expertise and use these to advise and support others
• Provide appropriate guidance and supervision and assist in the training and development of staff as appropriate
• Supervise students on visits, trips and out of school activities as required
• Undertake planned supervision of students’ out of school hours learning activities

• General administration related to the remit of the Learning Support Faculty

Contact Details

  Personnel Team
01844 210599
[email protected]