Teaching Assistant – Willow Hearing Support Centre
Linden Lodge School
Wandsworth
- £18,407 - £18,739 per year
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- Scale point 3 points - 5 - 6
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- ASAP
- Apply by:
- 1 June 2022
Job overview
Salary: Scale 3, point 5 - 6 (£18,407 - £18,739 Actual)
Hours: 32.5 Hours per week
Working Pattern: Term Time Only - 39 Weeks per year
Start Date: ASAP
Contract: Fixed Term depending upon specific student’s continual attendance within the provision
DO YOU WANT TO BE PART OF AN OUTSTANDING AND SUCCESSFUL TEAM?
ARE YOU A CREATIVE AND INNOVATIVE PRACTITIONER?
RE YOU COMMITTED TO CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT?
DO YOU WANT TO WORK FOR AN ORGANISATION THAT PROMOTES BEST PRACTICE AND VALUES IT’S STAFF?
Wandsworth Sensory Support Service is a provider of education for children and young people with Sensory Impairment. This is an exciting opportunity to join our highly motivated and skilled team as a Teaching Assistant within the Willow Hearing Support Centre based at Sellincourt Primary School. The Willow currently has fourteen primary aged deaf children who follow a mainstream curriculum with added specialist support from the Hearing Support Centre. The students are all verbal and use speech as their main communication method.
You will be predominantly working with a Year 5 child who has a hearing loss as well as other learning and processing needs. The child will require daily support in accessing a tailored KS1 curriculum, which will mostly consist of 1:1 and small group teaching, as well as pastoral support and audiological management, for which you will receive in-house training. There will also be other opportunities to support other children across the centre.
It is crucial that the postholder is calm, patient and able to demonstrate a high level of awareness when caring for children. The postholder will also need to be able to adapt to a busy and ever-changing environment as well as engage with the multi-disciplinary team involved in the centres wider care provision. As part of the Willow team, the postholder will be expected to have a flexible approach and may be deployed by the Teacher in Charge to work with other children in the provision.
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who has high expectations, is passionate about transforming young people’s lives and has a desire to develop their career by working with children and young people with sensory impairment and learning needs.
We can offer you:
• Personalised induction programme
• A positive and supportive team
• A staff wellbeing programme
If you would like more information about this role, please contact the school on 0208 7880107 to arrange an informal discussion.
Closing Date for all applications: Wednesday 1st June
Shortlisting: Monday 6th June
Interview Date: W/C Monday 6th June
Linden Lodge School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment, an enhanced DBS will be required.
At Linden Lodge we recognise our people are a great strength, we consider the diverse talents they bring to our workforce and are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion.
We reserve the right to withdraw this vacancy in advance of the closing date if there is a good level of response. We recommend applicants submit applications as early as possible. We also reserve to right to interview shortlisted candidates ahead of the closing date.
CVs are not accepted.
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About Linden Lodge School
Linden Lodge School is a day and residential special needs school for pupils with Vision and Multi Sensory Impairment. We are based in Wimbledon, southwest London, and consider prospective pupils from a wide area.
We accept children from nursery to year 14 ( 2 to 19 ) with Vision Impairment, Hearing Impairment and Multi-Sensory Impairment. We also consider applications for pupils who would benefit from our sensory education approaches and facilities.
The education of pupils with Sensory Impairment is highly specialist and therefore we have specialist teachers, a specialist sensory curriculum and extensive specialist resources and facilities on our campus.
These include:
- A large workforce of specialist sensory impairment teachers who in addition to their teaching qualifications hold a Diploma or Masters Degree in teaching the visually impaired, hearing-impaired and multi-sensory impaired
- A large on-site therapy team of Speech and Language therapists, Physiotherapists and Occupational therapists directly employed by the school who work alongside teachers and education teams
- A team of habilitationists for the visually-impaired
- An onsite Learning Resources Centre which enables us to provide a wide range of fully accessible learning resources tailored to meet each pupil’s specific sensory needs
- On-site Vision assessment hub to carry out Functional Vision Assessments
- An NHS standard Audiology testing booth to assess pupils’ hearing and the use of audiological equipment
- A centre for families of children with Sensory Impairment to provide training, parent guidance and social opportunities
- An accessible physical environment including acoustically treated classrooms and clear signage for the visually-impaired
Our expectations for each pupil are high and we understand that each pupil with a Sensory Impairment has a unique diagnosis and learning profile. We have specialist centres for pupils with profound multiple learning needs and also for pupils following the National Curriculum and a range of GCSE, BTEC and externally accredited pathways.
We, therefore, offer a range of Curriculum pathways each tailored to pupils’ needs and abilities delivered through our departmental and specialist centres. A number of our centres are in separate purpose-built accommodation on site.
We want our pupils to reach their potential and achieve as much independence as possible. Every pupil has, in addition to their curriculum targets, personal goals to optimise their use of Vision, Hearing and other Senses.
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