Overstone Park School Hiring for Teaching Assistant Job at Northampton, England Full Time

• Children with special or medical needs.
• Challenging behavior.
• Children with a statement of special educational needs.
• The Teaching Assistant will be predominantly education-based but will have a wider remit including working with families and the wider community.

• Listener;
• Facilitator for learning;
• Encourager;
• Motivator;
• Role model.

• Work with children whose behavior and disaffection have a significant impact upon their attainment.
• Support the ethos of the school.
• Improve pupil progress and achievement by helping to minimize barriers to learning and maximize pupil participation.

• To devise, implement and evaluate specialized programs of work to encourage and promote a pupil’s social-emotional and behavioral development.
• To work with teaching staff and/or other support staff in devising and implementing individual learning plans to promote pupils’ academic, social, emotional, and behavioral development.
• To plan and facilitate structured games and activities, to support pupils to make appropriate use of unstructured times.
• To plan and draw up approaches that could be used to support pupils both individually and within a group.
• To work with individuals & groups both within and outside the classroom setting.
• Undergo training for the creation of nurture groups.
• To be responsible for a nurture room.
• To organize and run extracurricular activities during lunch and out-of-school activities.
• Organize lunchtime activities to support pupils who have difficulties at break time.
• Help students to manage and resolve conflict by using and teaching them a variety of strategies.
• To observe and monitor pupil progress, adapting an agreed approach to meet particular needs, recording and maintaining records of pupils’ development and progress.
• To contribute to the assessment of pupil progress and to produce detailed written reports outlining pupil progress.
• Work effectively and collaboratively with teachers, support staff, and external support as required to ensure effective support provision for all our pupils.
• Help plan the reintegration of students after extended absence or exclusion.
• Outreach to families whose home circumstances appear to present a significant barrier to successful learning, and work with parents to help the student achieve their targets.
• Contribute to the writing of Provision Maps for the pupils.
• Monitor students’ progress before, during, and after the intervention to measure the impact of the intervention strategy on progress; include student evaluations
• Maintain a record of evaluations as evidence of effective practice, support, and guidance.
• Identifying, in association with school staff, pupils who would benefit from mentoring.
• Setting up and running circle time sessions and anger management groups where necessary.
• Networking to share good practice.
• Create a directory of resources, activities, organizations, and support services that can be drawn upon by staff/parents to support children identified.
• To provide first aid as necessary (training will be given).
• Organizing training for other Learning Support Assistants/Teaching Assistants.
• Regularly monitor and reward the achievement of children working with you with whom we are working
• Attend and participate in multi-disciplinary meetings contributing to the sharing of information and/or planning in relation to specific pupils.
• Undertake a range of administrative duties relevant to the post.
• Participate as required in relevant training which has been identified by the members of the Senior Leadership Team. This will include a planned induction period.
• Ensure confidentiality is maintained at all times.
• Any other duties relevant to the work of the post holder as requested by the Senior Leadership Team.
• Teaching groups of children circle activities/PHSE games.
• Any other duties as directed by the Principal/Senior Team.

About Overstone Park School:

A non-selective independent school registered with DFE and ISI for boys and girls aged 5 to 18 years.