Teaching Assistant

Are you passionate about supporting young people, recognising individual qualities and strengths, and aspiring to attain excellence in learning support?

We are looking for an enthusiastic and dedicated Teaching Assistant to join our friendly and experienced team here at The View @ East Street to offer a range of support to students in lessons and supporting with their independent study sessions in small groups and 1-1.

WHY CHOOSE US?

The View @ East Street is a provision based in the heart of Tonbridge. It is a comfortable and small-scale study centre for 16 to 18-year-old students. This Satellite Centre, of the highly successful Hillview School for Girls, offers the highest level of support through a personalised and nurturing approach to its students, with dedicated pastoral support, counsellors and support mentors. This centre supports young people who would benefit and prefer to study in a smaller learning environment.

Within the centre we also support Year 11 students from other local schools with an anxiety-based school avoidance programme. With our first cohort of Post 16 and Year 11 students last year, there is proven success of the work we do with our students with 97.5% of all our students having a positive destination in education or training.

Additional Learning Support at TV@ES is designed to remove any potential barriers to learning and ensure successful outcomes. We work closely with all our students and parents to organise support and make reasonable adjustments to their learning experiences to enable positive outcomes emotionally, socially and academically.

You will have the skills to:

·        Provide 1:1 and small group support as necessary and as specified by the Centre Manager & ASENCo

·        Supervise and work with groups and individual students to make sure they understand their work and stay focused within study sessions

·        Follow programmes of intervention aimed at improving, for example, literacy, numeracy and self-esteem

·        Work within different subject areas to provide in-class support for students with special needs and SEMH

·        Be aware of the factors that affect students' social, emotional and mental health and support in this

·        Actively encourage students to participate in learning tasks and activities consistent with their developmental level, physical abilities and medical conditions

·        Provide praise and encouragement to students to recognise and promote confidence and self esteem

·        Be able to recognise and refer any safeguarding issues by following school policy

·        Carry out any other reasonable duties as required by the Centre Manager

Professional skills and attributes

·        Communicate openly and honestly with colleagues whilst maintaining confidentiality

·        Be able to build effective nurturing and learning relationships with students, whilst maintaining professional boundaries

·        Demonstrate sensitivity and understanding for building good relationships with children

·        Active listening skills to understand the students' needs

·        To be flexible and open to change for working on different activities

·        To enjoy working with other people in a small scale learning environment

·        The ability to create the best conditions for learning or teaching new things

·        Communicate effectively with parents and carers to support students' needs

·        Keep records, monitor progress and liaise with parents/carers

·        Give encouragement and feedback using language and vocabulary which the student is likely to understand

·        To be able to carry out basic tasks on a computer

Interested applicants please return a completed application form by e-mail to Mrs Amanda Dennett,

HR Manager at dennetta@hillview.kent.sch.uk

Closing date for applications: Tuesday 21 February 2023

Please note: Applications may be considered whilst the post is being advertised. Hillview School reserves the right to close earlier than the stated deadline        

Hillview School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students and we expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.