Learning and Wellbeing Support Teaching Assistant
Ark Acton Academy
Ealing
- £24,925 - £28,070 per year
- New
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- ASAP
- Apply by:
- 30 November 2024
Job overview
Job Title: Learning Support Assistant
Start date: ASAP
Contract: Permanent, Term Time Only
Salary: Support scale grade 5, points 5-13, £28,977 - £32,634 (Pro-rata £24,925 - £28,070)
Disclosure level: Enhanced
Closing date: Applications will be considered on a rolling basis.
Interview date: TBC
The Role
As a Learning Support Teaching Assistant, you will support pupils, parents, and teachers, to establish a supportive learning environment in which children make good academic progress. You will be instrumental in our mission to provide every student, regardless of their background, a great education and real choices in life
Key Responsibilities
· Support pupil learning through the delivery of specific learning programmes, setting high expectations whilst encouraging their independence and building their confidence
· Promote inclusion, encouraging pupils to interact and work collaboratively
· Work with the SENCO and other teachers to assess the needs of individual children, contribute to and implement Individual Education Plans
· Adapt and develop resources for EAL and SEND pupils, ensuring their safety and enabling them to access the curriculum
· Assist with follow-through for related services (speech/language/physical therapy etc.)
· Mentor students on a 1:1 and group basis, as well as planning and leading a series of booster and intervention sessions to tackle difficult topics
· Observe, record and feedback information of pupil performance
· Assist in creating materials for curriculum delivery and display boards
· Assist with whole class teaching
· Provide class cover for the teacher
· Use strategies, in liaison with the teacher to assist in behaviour management and to support pupils in their learning objectives
· Assist pupils' achievement outside of the classroom, e.g. computer lab, library
Other
· Undertake other various responsibilities as directed by the Principal
· Supervise pupils in playgrounds, lunchrooms etc and assist with general pastoral care
· Accompany teachers and pupils on trips and out of school activities as required within contract hours, taking responsibility for pupils under the supervision of
the teacher
· Actively promote the safety and welfare of our children and young people
· Ensure compliance with Ark’s data protection rules and procedures
· Liaise with colleagues and external contacts at all levels of seniority with confidence, tact and diplomacy
· Work with Ark Central and other academies in the Ark network, to establish good practice throughout the network, offering support where required
This job description sets out the main duties of the post at the time of drafting. It cannot be read as an exhaustive list. These responsibilities will be discussed annually as part of the post holder’s annual performance review and are subject to change. However, it may be altered at any time subject to need in consultation with the post holder subject to the Principal’s approval.
About Ark Acton Academy
At Ark Acton Academy we believe that every child, regardless of background or prior achievement, can be successful if given great teaching and pastoral support. Our mission is to create a school of the highest standard that achieves this through recruiting and training excellent teachers and support staff, and by developing a pastoral system that ensures no child is left behind.
Our mastery curriculum is at the heart of school life and ensures that all students get the opportunity to study academic disciplines and to wrestle with ways of thinking that take them beyond everyday understandings. Alongside this we invest heavily in staff training and development to ensure that every student is taught by a subject expert who is passionate about their subject and its importance to understanding the world around us.
Whilst we want all our students to leave Ark Acton Academy with the currency they need to access the next stage of their education and to have an unrelenting focus on hard work and discipline, we know that getting great exam results is only half of a good education: we are determined to deliver as many opportunities as we can for every child to flourish outside the classroom. We want our students to be able to stand shoulder to shoulder with a child from a private school and compete for the same university place or job.
As part of Ark Schools, we have access to world class staff training and development, as well as expertise from across the network. Being part of a family of schools ensures that we can keep learning and evaluating our impact to ensure that every child who comes to Ark Acton leaves as a well-rounded and polite individual with the drive and resources to lead a happy and successful life.
Why work at Ark Acton Academy
At Ark Acton we have stripped away anything we feel gets in the way of being a great teacher so that we can focus on the main thing. This includes:
- Feedback policies that sit at department level and do not require slavish marking of books
- No graded lesson observations or spurious judgements
- No report writing
- No parent’s evenings
- Only 2 data points a year
- No ½ termly data metrics to track progress
- Protected Department meeting time built into the timetable and staff loadings
- Protected curriculum planning time built into the timetable and staff loadings
- A constant SLT presence to maintain our calm, scholarly atmosphere
- A binary behaviour system that enables disruption-free teaching.
Our curriculum
Our purpose as a school is to ensure our young people can go out into the world and live a life of choice and opportunity. We want them to leave Ark Acton having been inducted into systems of worthwhile knowledge that enable them to participate in and shape the national discourse.
In order to achieve this vision for our young people, we place the curriculum at the heart of school life. It drives all other decisions that we make and is the best means we have of demonstrating as a school what we believe in and what we stand for. In essence our curriculum is designed to ensure that all pupils at Acton acquire disciplinary knowledge that they cannot learn at home and that this specified curriculum knowledge is based on the most coherent and tested ways of conceptualising the world that we have.
Alongside our taught academic curriculum we run our co-curricular programme. This programme provides experiences and opportunities for all students to participate in individual and group activities that help them develop essential life skills. Debating and oracy sits at the heart of this model as we aim to enable all our students to develop confidence, articulacy and team-working skills.
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