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Teaching Personnel are seeking a British Sign Language Qualified Teaching Assistant to work in a Hillingdon Primary School. The role will commence full-time in April intially for the whole spring term with the potential for the right candidate to be taken onto a permenant contract. The successful candidate would be required to support a child with a hearing impairment access class lessons, learning materials, and communicate within day-to-day school life. Experience of supporting deaf individuals within a school setting is required and you must hold BSL at a minimum of level 2. Within this role, you would be supporting a child with their education by interpreting spoken English into British Sign Language (BSL) and adapting learning materials.

You will also:

- Take into account the needs of the pupil you are supporting
- Help the pupil communicate with others in class
- Support them by lip speaking and notetaking
- Interpret between spoken English and BSL
- Be creative in adapting learning materials as to make it accessible for the child
- Help students to produce written work
- Support learners in communicating with teachers
- Build relationships with the pupil and their family
- Develop ways of enabling the pupil to become more independent
- Provide deaf-awareness training for other staff and students
- Support the school in improving the environment for hearing aids and lipreading

If you have the relevant qualifications, an excellent understanding of hearing impairment needs, and wish to support children within in a Primary School setting- this could be the role for you.

If interested, please send a copy of your CV to arandeep.sandhu@teachingpersonnel.com as soon as possible, or call 0208 616 9893.

All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role. Please see teachingpersonnel.com/faqs for details.

All pay rates quoted will be inclusive of 12.07% statutory holiday pay. This advert is for a temporary position. In some cases, the option to make this role permanent may become available at a later date.

Teaching Personnel is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We offer all our registered candidates FREE child protection and prevent duty training. All candidates must undertake or have undertaken a valid enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Full assistance provided.

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All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role. Please see teachingpersonnel.com/faqs for details.

All pay rates quoted will be inclusive of 12.07% statutory holiday pay. This advert is for a temporary position. In some cases, the option to make this role permanent may become available at a later date.

Teaching Personnel is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We offer all our registered candidates FREE child protection and prevent duty training. All candidates must undertake or have undertaken a valid enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Full assistance provided.

For details of our privacy policy, please see teachingpersonnel.com/privacy-notice