Permanent Teaching Assistant

Teaching Assistant - SEN 

Location: Effingham, Surrey 

Salary: £12.99 - £13.89 per hour (£23,210 - £24,818 actual salary dependant on qualifications) Plus £1000 Welcome bonus *  

Hours: 40 hours per week - Term Time only - Start time 8.15am - Finish time Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday 4.45pm. Thursday 5pm and Friday 4pm     

We’re looking to recruit a Teaching Assistant to join our team in Effingham, Leatherhead.  The successful candidate will be supporting the teacher within the class. Our autistic students are aged between 11 – 16, they have associated behavioural and communication difficulties. Some pupils may have multiple learning difficulties. 

What’s in it for you? / Why Should You Apply?  

You want to make a difference in the lives of our students and their families. 

You want to contribute to our broad and creative curriculum offer. 

You want to work with an inspiring student population. 

You enjoy working as part of a collaborative and committed multi-disciplinary team. 

You have a strong commitment to student and staff well-being and want to work in an organisation with the same strong values. 

You want to work within an organisation that support, develops and invests in their staff. 

Key duties: 

Take responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils according to the school’s policies, including safeguarding and PREVENT. 

Provide meaningful feedback on pupil behaviour, relationships and attitudes. 

Support positive behaviour and concentration levels of the children and adapt own behaviour and responses to any change or escalations in behaviour of the children. 

Establish a positive relationship with pupils in order to support them in feeling safe and enabling them to enjoy and learn. 

Promote and encourage independence and personal development and maintainhigh expectations of behaviour at all times and support in the achievement of this. 

Implement, and when appropriate, adjust learning activities as agreed with the teacher. Reinforce learning concepts presented by teachers 

Support learning by arranging/providing resources for lessons/activities under the direction of the teacher. 

Implement learning activities and experiences, appropriate to the class group, by supporting the delivery of a broad and balanced curriculum aiming at pupils achieving their full potential in all areas of learning. 

 Benefits  

 Be part of our successful team and alsobenefit from a generous package that includes: 

Life assurance 

Enhanced Pension Scheme 

* Welcome bonus is payable in 2 payments - 50% following successful completion of probation and 50% after one year service  

Perkbox - offering high street discounts. 

Employee assistance programme 

Car lease scheme 

Fully funded training and qualifications 

Bike to work scheme. 

Free membership to our Health cash back plan - Claim back money on services such as dental, optical, physio and many more.