Special School Support Assistant
Great Oaks School
Southampton
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- Salary:
- SCP Grade 6 from point 19 FTE = £18,820, Pro-rata (32 hours and 44.5 weeks) = salary of £13,929.48
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- Thursday 4th January 2017
Job overview
Great Oaks School is a secondary special school for pupils with learning difficulties in Southampton. Due to expansion we require a support assistant to work across the school with individuals and small groups. The work will include supporting the learning of the young people under the direction of a teacher and helping to meet the personal care needs of the pupils in the school.
Experience of working with children is essential as is a calm, flexible and resilient approach
Great Oaks is part of the Solent Special Education Trust comprising Great Oaks and Rosewood Special schools.
Please see school website www.greatoaks.school for more details about the school
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About Great Oaks School
Great Oaks School is a 340 place secondary school for young people with a range of complex learning difficulties including autism and speech and language difficulties. Our pupils come from all over Southampton as well as many from Hampshire. We are part of the Specialist Schools' Trust, currently comprising Great Oaks and Rosewood Schools.
At Great Oaks we follow a broad and balanced curriculum with a particular emphasis on developing communication, literacy, numeracy and personal and social skills. In addition we have a focus on creativity and the arts which have proved an extremely successful way of engaging our young people and helping to promote their self esteem and self confidence. We have introduced the Great Oaks Guarantee which lists 13 extra-curricular opportunities that we aim to give all pupils during their time at the School
At Great Oaks we strongly believe in partnership working – we work closely with the other special schools in Southampton, with local secondary schools with a range of multi-agencies and with parents. Pupils at Great Oaks benefit from an experienced and dedicated staff team who have skills in working in a range of curriculum areas as well an understanding and empathy for the needs of young people with learning difficulties. We benefit many different specialist facilities include sensory rooms, IT suites, sports hall and theatre.
We currently have 3 sites, Our largest site on Vermont Close Southampton, are supplemented by a site for our older pupils and college students on Green Lane and a personalised learning provision on Bugle Street
We aim to put the needs of the young people at our school at the heart of everything that we do and through promoting a growth mindset help to ensure that all pupils irrespective of their learning difficulties or past educational attainment can make real progress and be enabled to succeed.
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