About the role
Yaxley Infant School
Qualified Level 2 Teaching Assistant 20 hours PT – Maternity leave cover from 26th Feb 2024
We are looking for a part time enthusiastic, hardworking and highly motivated Teaching Assistant to join our friendly and dedicated team to support children in EYFS and Key Stage One with Education and Health Care Plans (EHCP’s) and additional needs.
If you would like to work with this highly creative team whose members, love to have fun, care a great deal about the children in their care and also value rigor and high standards we would like to hear from you.
Experience working with children with Autism would be an advantage or a just a great willingness to learn and be part of a supportive and high performing team.
Further details and job packs containing an application form are available from the office email office@yaxley.cambs.sch.uk
or on our school website:
Vacancies | Yaxley Infant School
Closing date: 29th January 2024
Interviews: 30th January 2024
What will you be doing?
Reports to: Headteacher/SENDCo
Grade: Level 2
Job Purpose:
Support the classroom teacher to facilitate the active participation of children in the academic and social activities of the school. Contribute to raising standards of achievement for all pupils.
Principal Accountabilities:
1. Support for children
• In conjunction with the classroom teacher, adapt lessons to meet the needs of individual children and small groups.
• Take responsibility for delivering learning activities with small groups who would benefit from a different learning approach as agreed.
• Establish and maintain supportive relationships with individual pupils, small groups and parents/carers to ensure they understand and can achieve the tasks.
• Provide learning support to children with significant care needs, or where English is not their first language.
• Support children with significant development needs, e.g. cognitive ability, EBD, learning skills, etc. as directed.
• Encourage and promote inclusion in the classroom, ensuring all pupils feel involved with tasks and activities.
2. Support for the curriculum
• Support the school curriculum, including literacy and numeracy activities.
• Suggest areas where IT might be used to enrich pupil learning
• Provide targeted support to enhance learning and improve attainment
3. Support for the teacher
• Assist in maintaining class records and contribute to reports on pupil progress and development as directed.
• Contribute to the planning and evaluation of work programmes for individual pupils and groups with additional needs.
• Organise the learning environment and develop classroom resources as required.
• Undertake support activities for the teacher as required, e.g. photocopying, preparation of materials, mounting displays.
• Contribute to the management of pupil behaviour, including anticipating and taking action to prevent potential problems arising.
4. Support for the school
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with other staff and parents or carers.
• Contribute to the maintenance of a safe and healthy environment.
• Attend and actively participate in relevant staff meetings as required.
• Participate in and support the professional development of other teaching assistants as required.
• Assist in facilitating school events, e.g. school plays, events.
5. Safeguarding and Welfare
• To be aware of the schools’ policy for child protection and other relevant documentation and report any concerns to the designated person for child protection.
• To ensure that all pupils who suffer any injury or accident are dealt with appropriately in accordance with the school’s agreed procedures.
About you
Yaxley Infant School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This is a regulated activity and an enhanced DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) check and two satisfactory references will be expected in addition to medical clearance.
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.
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