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Howard House School

Teaching Assistant

• Full-Time
• £23,995.69-£29,956.53 Per annum

Teaching Assistant

Howard House School, Bedlington, Northumberland

Salary: £23,995.69 – £29,956.53 per annum (DOE)

Hours of Week: 40 Term Time Only

Contract Type: Permanent

About Howard House School:

Howard House School is a specialist alternative provision and special educational needs (SEND) school located in Bedlington, Northumberland. The school provides a nurturing, highly supportive learning environment for pupils whose needs may not be met in a mainstream setting, with high levels of individualised support.

Howard House School aims to create a safe and happy learning environment where pupils feel secure, enjoy learning and are supported to achieve their full potential. The school delivers a broad and ambitious curriculum tailored to individual needs, offering a range of qualifications and pathways, including Functional Skills, Entry Level qualifications and GCSEs. Alongside core subjects, pupils benefit from enrichment opportunities such as Music, Duke of Edinburgh and Sport Science.

Members of the team say “I am proud of the teaching and opportunities provided in and out of the classroom.”

https://howardhouseschool.com/

Requirements:

Be able to maintain effective record keeping

Ability to supervise groups of students

Ability to support/instruct other TA’s and support staff

Ability to effectively use ICT to support learning, or to undertake training to do so.

Good literacy and numeracy skills

Good organisational and time management skills

Ability to form and maintain appropriate professional relationships and boundaries with children and young people

Ability to deal with sensitive information in a confidential manner.

Awareness of legislation relating to child protection

As a teaching assistant you will:

• Support teachers with: planning lessons, delivery of lessons and evaluating lessons.
• Have a thorough understanding of the students, you work with, by reading Educational Health Care Plans, Individual Education Plans, Risk Assessment and other relevant documentation, in order to better meet their needs.
• Keep up to date with any changes in learning and teaching related to subject area, including DfE guidance and curriculum changes and ensure staff are kept informed.
• Keep up to date with any legislation or guidance pertaining to the safeguarding of children and young people.
• Set high expectations so that all pupils are inspired, motivated and challenged to reach their full potential.
• Create a positive climate for learning, by explicitly teaching lesson routines and applying behaviours systems consistently and fairly.
• Create a positive climate for learning by explicitly teaching and modelling acceptable and agreed behaviour.
• Support well-structured lessons which allo adequate time to embed new knowledge, understanding and skills and are responsive to pupils’ understanding.
• Systematically check pupils’ understanding and act to correct any misconceptions.
• provide pupils with feedback aimed at moving their leaning forward.
• To support the planning and delivery of lessons across the curriculum.

Benefits of Working for us:

• A rewarding career you can be truly proud of
• A supportive environment that is committed to helping you flourish and deliver excellent care to the people we support
• Competitive pay
• Career development and training
• Progression Opportunities
• Salary Sacrifice
• Enhanced maternity package

If this sounds like the role for you, apply now!

Young Foundations are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our staff to share this commitment. We adopt fair, robust and consistent recruitment process across the company in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, satisfactory reference, right to work checks and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.

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About Howard House School

Howard House School aims to encourage intellectual curiosity, critical perception and respect for learning. We strongly encourage individual responsibility, self-esteem and confidence as well as care, concern and respect for others.

We believe it is our duty to promote the development of personal values to help meet the challenges of a complex world and to encourage a commitment to contributing positively to the community and wider society.

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