Supply Teaching Assistant
Evergreen School
Warwickshire
- £11.18 - £11.38 per hour
- Expired
- Salary:
- SCP E5 - E6
- Job type:
- Part Time, Casual
- Start date:
- ASAP
- Apply by:
- 6 October 2023
Job overview
Casual contract, ad hoc, flexible hours, SCP E5 - SCP E6 – hourly rate £11.18 to £11.38, required ASAP.
Evergreen School is a community special school with two purpose-built sites in Warwick. We have 282 wonderful children and young adults enrolled who are 4 to 19 years old. This is an exciting time to join our school as we continue to develop and expand, with a new curriculum and fantastic facilities including a swimming pool, hydrotherapy pool, sensory studios, Café and soft-play room.
We are seeking Teaching Assistants who share our vision of putting our children, young people and families at the heart of everything we do. Evergreen is a happy school, with committed, enthusiastic and experienced staff, who provide a wonderful supportive working environment for all.
As a Supply Teaching Assistant, you will be offered work when this is available (to cover vacancies or absences, for example). This will be on a temporary, ad hoc basis.
As a Teaching Assistant L1, some of your responsibilities will be to:
· Support pupils to reach their full potential
· Work as part of a team with other professionals
· Support pupils in accessing a range of provision such as Rebound therapy and hydrotherapy
· Support pupils during lunchtime
· Support and direct activities with individuals or groups to ensure their safety and facilitate their physical, emotional and cognitive development
Responsible for:
Responsibility for others: The post has considerable direct impact on the well-being of individuals or groups through providing appropriate care or welfare for those who are personally dependant on the post for basic needs.
Responsibility for staff: The post has limited (or no) direct responsibility for supervising other staff. It may be expected to demonstrate tasks or advise/guide new employees, work experience or trainees.
Responsibility for budget: The post has limited (or no) direct responsibility for financial resources. May be involved in occasional handling small amounts of cash, processing cheques, invoices etc.
Responsibility for physical resources: The post has limited (or no) direct responsibility for physical resources, other than the handling and careful use of equipment (eg computer / PC/ teaching materials/resources).
Responsibilities
A duty to comply with the School’s Code of Conduct, Child Protection and Safeguarding policies and practices.
Curriculum Support – Support pupils’ learning as directed, in context of fostering independence and self-esteem (e.g. modelling use of language appropriate to the task, facilitating discussions and interactions, encouraging pupils to reflect on their work)
Support the provision of pupils’, including Rebound therapy, swimming and hydrotherapy
Pupil Support – Carry out appropriate activities as planned, either with small groups or individuals e.g. promoting increased attention and staying on task, helping with physical difficulties whilst encouraging independence
Support pupils in accessing the curriculum (and with your pupils, extend play based learning)
Provide for physical care of pupils, including lifting, interactive communication, supervision
Assistant and support pupils with personal care – e.g. changing, toileting, showering, washing, dressing, undressing, care of clothes, personal hygiene
Assist with pupil supervision – e.g. arrival/leaving the class, at breaktime and lunchtime
Accompany pupils as directed, e.g. out of the classroom, on visits, trips and out of school activities
Deal with minor accidents, upsets
Teacher Support – Assist in the day to day management of the learning environment, e.g preparing/cleaning equipment and resources, preparation of classrooms/art areas etc and outside areas
Assistant with equipment hygiene (wash and detox)
Display and present children’s work
Sort and tidy cupboards
Cleaning up
Assist in management of pupil behaviour
Liaise with parents, answering queries
Participate in record keeping e.e. providing information to contribute to recording pupil achievement, taking photos of pupils work
Provide feedback about learning activities, responses to them and support provided
Undertake routine admin and clerical support (copying, filing, collecting money etc)
Attached documents
About Evergreen School
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This is an exciting opportunity to join Evergreen School, an all-through community special school across 2 separate sites in Warwick. We have over 280 children on roll ranging from 4 to 19 years old. Although our campuses aren’t strictly split by age, our campus on Deansway provides for predominantly primary-aged children and our campus situated on Brittain Lane provides for secondary aged children and young adults.
We think that Evergreen School is a wonderful and exciting place to be and we know that we have the most incredible children. All of us here are learning all of the time. If you have the very highest standards and expectations for yourself and everyone around you, a passion for learning and developing and believe that working with children and young people is the greatest privilege anyone can ever have, then we think you will love it too.
"My leadership philosophy centres around growth mindset, where each individual is encouraged and empowered to grow and develop. I want our children and young people to be excited, and most importantly happy turning up to school each day. Our children and young people deserve to have wonderful experiences of the world around them, learn new skills that are being delivered in an innovative way, thrive and be prepared to live in and contribute to their local community, grow as individuals, follow their interests and be the heartbeat of their curriculum. This individualised and tailored approach is the essence of specialist provision." (Nick, Head Teacher)
Class groups all have a teacher, senior teaching assistant and additional support staff and we have school nurses, and family support workers on site. A multi-disciplinary team including speech and language therapists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and a wide range of other professionals supports the work of the teaching staff.
Our pupils benefit from a broad range of educational resources and learning spaces. Across both sites we have a swimming pool which is equipped with a sensory multi-media system, a hydrotherapy pool, a soft play room, cookery rooms and two sensory studios. Our secondary site has an ICT suite, Art room, DT room, Gym, and recently opened a Book Café and Enterprise Shop.
There are separate, beautifully equipped playgrounds for all key stages and in addition we have soft surface sensory areas to offer a different play experience for our more complex needs pupils. All of our pupils also access forest school on a weekly basis.
The school has a range of facilities which enable outside professionals to liaise and meet with parents and staff. A variety of clinics are held at the school regularly. We are very well served by computer driven technology, with large plasma screens and visualisers in every classroom. There is high speed broadband internet and Wi-Fi access throughout the school.
We are committed to Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of those we serve, as well as complying with best practice in the application of safeguarding. Therefore, as our roles are in regulated activity, an enhanced DBS Disclosure will be required as part of the pre-employment checking process, and re-checking will be required when determined by the relevant policy. We will request references and conduct an online search at the shortlisting stage. One reference must be from your current employer. If you are employed in a school, the reference must be from the Headteacher.
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