Teaching Assistant
Nailsea School
North Somerset
- Expired
- Salary:
- Actual Salary £10.256
- Job type:
- Part Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- ASAP
- Apply by:
- 21 January 2022
Job overview
Teaching Assistant
This position is linked to student funding
Grade 12 – 20 hrs per week
Actual Salary £10,256
Term Time plus 3 INSET days
Would you like to be part of an expanding SEND provision for students with additional educational needs? There’s never been a better time to join the fantastic team here at Nailsea School as we encourage everyone to exceed their own expectations and to be the very best they can be. With recent investment, we are the first secondary school in North Somerset to offer a formal resource base for students with higher functioning Autism.
We are offering an exciting new opportunity to appoint an enthusiastic and motivated Teaching assistant to join our SEND team to work specifically with an Autistic student.
We are looking for candidates who have:
• experience of working with children with SEND, specifically ASD/Social communication.
• a good understanding of the national curriculum framework and differentiation.
• a good understanding of how to modify and adapt the school day to meet the needs of an individual child.
• an ability to be flexible, positive and good humoured; proactively seeking creative ways of meeting children’s needs.
• good levels of written English.
• excellent interpersonal skills.
The successful candidate will be required to:
• provide in class support and support teachers to differentiate class work.
• deliver some bespoke 1:1 intervention.
• give clear and effective teaching to secure pupil progress whilst assessing the development, progress, and attainment of pupils.
• provide assessment feedback to teachers.
• use ‘provision map’ to record student progress and be responsible for the management of some student educational healthcare plans.
Nailsea School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and all appointments will be subject to an enhanced DBS check, medical check and satisfactory references.
Closing date for applications is Friday 21 January 2022 Interviews will be week commencing Monday 24 January 2022.
Please complete our application form which can be found on our school website www.nailseaschool.com, under ’Join us’ Support Staff Application detailing skills and experience, to be emailed to LCoombs@nailseaschool.com by Noon on Friday 21 January 2022.
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About Nailsea School
Our School
Nailsea School is a mixed secondary school and sixth form. Situated less than 10 miles from Bristol it enjoys the benefits of a small town whilst being on the doorstep of one of the U.K.’s most prosperous, vibrant and creative cities. Nailsea School is a community that demonstrates a common purpose - to ensure the very best for each and everyone of their students.
At Nailsea School all students are valued and each individual is encouraged to be the best version of themselves: to Aspire, Believe and Succeed.
The Whole Child
The change from childhood to adulthood can be challenging and we believe that confidence, happiness and strong communication skills form the foundations for success. Our in-school pastoral team advise and nurture the whole child, offering support with social skills, peer problems, anxiety, home or academic issues. Experts in safeguarding, counselling and mentoring work alongside our Heads of House and tutors to support students well-being. The House structure’s vertical tutor groups integrate year groups and encourages peer to peer learning and support. This leads to strong friendships, confident relationships between groups and a comfortable family base from which students thrive. Feedback from a dynamic student voice programme connecting the whole school, reveals students to be happy and flourishing. We are proud of the behaviour of our students and visitors often remark on the studious, calm atmosphere within the school. Staff and students work together to ensure the effectiveness of rules and behaviour policies around the school create a fair and safe environment for all, with a focus on effort as well as achievement.
A Place for Everyone
Understanding that each child is different, Nailsea School has developed a range of inclusive ways to meet individual needs including a specialist learning centre within the school for students with specific educational needs and disabilities. The Hub is a place where children access a reduced mainstream timetable to improve literacy, numeracy and social skills. The low stress setting of The Hub, within the centre of the school, provides a nurturing environment through Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4, and children using this area are encouraged to join in with mainstream life.
Teachers at Nailsea are skilled in adopting and responding to the learning needs of all students and there is also extra support in the form of dedicated Teaching and Learning Support Assistants within lessons for those who experience specific learning difficulties.
Our Facilities
Nailsea School was re-built in 2009 and the space speaks for itself; designed with students in mind, its free-flowing structure makes navigation easy and there is a sense of calm learning throughout the school. As well as benefiting from excellent sporting facilities, including an all-weather pitch, fantastic creative arts facilities with music, TV and art studios, and technology throughout the school, it has excellent ecological credentials. Students can visit the DEN area (Developing Engagement with Nature) where forest school principles are taught. Green technology has been developed throughout the school, the main heating source is through a biomass boiler, we have sensory lighting and use solar panels to heat our water and provide electricity for external lighting. Even the toilets use recycled greywater. Our carbon footprint is improving year on year and we recycle throughout the school.
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