Teaching Assistant (Level 2)

Job Description

Supporting Students

• Supervise and provide particular support for students, including those with special needs, ensuring their safety and access to learning activities.
• Assist with the development and implementation of individual interventions and support plans and Personal Care programmes.
• Establish constructive relationships with students and interact with them according to individual needs.
• Promote the inclusion and acceptance of all students. ·
• Encourage students to interact with others and engage in activities led by the teacher.
• Set challenging and demanding expectations and promote self-esteem and independence.
• Provide feedback to students in relation to progress and achievement under guidance of the teacher.

Supporting Teachers

• Create and maintain a purposeful, orderly and supportive environment, in accordance with lesson plans and assist with the display of students’ work.
• Use strategies, in liaison with the teacher, to support students to achieve learning goals.
• Assist with the planning of learning activities.
• Monitor students’ responses to learning activities and accurately record achievement/progress as directed.
• Provide detailed and regular feedback to teachers on students’ achievement, progress, problems etc.
• Promote good student behaviour, dealing promptly with conflict and incidents in line with established policy and encourage students to take responsibility for their own behaviour.
• Establish constructive relationships with parents/carers.
• Administer routine tests, invigilate exams and undertake marking of students’ work where appropriate.
• Provide clerical/admin support e.g. photocopying, typing, filing, creating displays and maintaining a purposeful environment.

Supporting the Curriculum

• Undertake structured and agreed learning activities/interventions, adjusting activities according to student responses.
• Undertake learning support activities and interventions linked to local and national learning strategies e.g. literacy, numeracy.
• Support the use of ICT in learning activities and develop students’ competence and independence in its use.
• Prepare, maintain and use equipment/resources required to meet the lesson plans/relevant learning activity and assist students in their use.

Developing Self and Working with Others

• Provide advice to peers and other stakeholders and independently resolve a range of standard and unforeseen issues, within pre-determined operational limits.
• To create and maintain good working relationships with all members of the school community.
• Demonstrate and promote commitment to Equal Opportunities and to the elimination of behaviour and practices that could be discrimination.

Contribution to Whole School

• Be aware of and comply with policies and procedures relating to child protection, health, safety and security, confidentiality and data protection, reporting all concerns to an appropriate person.
• Be aware of and support difference and ensure all students have equal access to opportunities to learn and develop.
• Contribute to the overall ethos/work/aims of the school.
• Appreciate and support the role of other professionals.
• Attend and participate in relevant meetings as required.
• Participate in training and other learning activities and performance development as required.
• Assist with the supervision of students out of lesson times, including before and after school and at lunchtime.
• Accompany teaching staff and students on visits, trips and out of school activities as required and take responsibility for a group under the supervision of the teacher.
• Contribute to a positive ethos within the school.