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SEN Teaching Assistant 0092

24 days ago

Newbury

SEN Teaching Assistant Location: Wolverhampton Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday 8.30am to 4.30pm. Term Time only Salary: £12.87 to £14.03 p/hr depending on experience and qualifications The Aurora Group The Aurora Group is an innovative provider of education and care for children, young people and adults with special educational needs and disabilities. It is an exciting time to be part of Aurora, and this is a unique career opportunity to be instrumental in the development of a new school and to make your mark on our growing services. Aurora Cedars School in Wolverhampton offers a bespoke education provision for up to 80 pupils aged 5-19 who have ASC/SEMH needs. The curriculum is creative and personalised for the pupils to ensure that we provide them with the best opportunities to succeed. The building has been being redeveloped, and work has been done to design the look and feel of the school to ensure it fulfils its potential of being an amazing learning environment with facilities to allow students to access a varied curriculum in a calm and nurturing environment with a team that strives to give every student the confidence and opportunities to achieve. The Headteacher is looking for fun, passionate, dedicated, and driven staff. He is committed to offering a truly unique workplace environment, embedded with a supportive culture, positive ethos, strong teamwork, and personal drive, with further career opportunities as both the school and Aurora, as a company, grows. Due to an increase in students we are currently looking for 2x full time Teaching Assistants to join the team. The Role / Key duties: As our new Teaching Assistant, your role is to support our children with their learning and general wellbeing to ensure every child has the best opportunity to reach their full potential in a caring and safe environment. Where necessary this may include supporting with care needs from time to time as well as positive behaviour management, adopting a tailored approach to the individual child. You will be expected to establish a warm, caring and supportive relationship with pupils in order to support them feeling safe and enabling them to enjoy and learn during their time at the School, and to promote and encourage independence and personal development in pupils while maintaining high expectations of behaviour at all times. You will support the class teacher and contribute to providing high quality, challenging and differentiated educational activities and experiences through supporting the teaching of a broad and balanced curriculum aiming at pupils achieving their full potential in all areas of learning. Working 1:1 with students and in small groups (3-4) to deliver personalised learning. Like many SEN environments; your duties are likely to vary and therefore candidates will need to be flexible and be able to lend a hand whenever required. Duties will vary, you must expect to diversify and lend a hand wherever is required. Successful candidates are likely to demonstrate: • Experience working with SEN in an employed or voluntary setting??, • Full UK driving licence and access to your own car desirable, • GCSE Maths and English Level 3 or above qualification is essential.?, • A recognised qualification at Level 2 or above in Support work for Teaching and Learning in Schools or an equivalent?is desirable???, • Understanding of the Safeguarding principles and Child Protection procedures.?, • Ability to adapt, • The desire to put the child first and treat them as an individual?, • Be positive and creative in assisting to meet pupils' individual needs?, • Have a driving license and be prepared to drive our school vehicles to support off-site trips and visits that are fundamental to our curriculum (desirable) Please complete an online application form in full, remembering to include all employment and education details. If you need any assistance or would like any more information please contact Karen in the Aurora Group Recruitment Team at Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check. The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children. The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer. This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled. Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.

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