Teaching Assistant - SEN

Role: Teaching Assistant - SEN

Hours: Term Time Only /Monday-Friday 40 hours per week - Permanent

Location: Rossendale (BB4)

Closing Date: 5th January 2025

Interview Date: 8th & 9th January 2025

Start Date: TBC

About Halliwell:

As a Teaching Assistant you will be joining the company at an exciting and compelling time.

About Halliwell:

Halliwell has recently restructured as an Employee Ownership Trust meaning greater engagement opportunities for all colleagues in the improvement of the business as well as greater benefits and rewards when the business performs well and achieves great outcomes for the children in its care.

We would like to hear from caring, enthusiastic and dedicated team players with a can-do approach who really care about the needs of young people. You will be respectful, empathetic, positive, accountable, reflective, engaged, nurturing and tenacious. You will enjoy working with children and young people and create a safe, caring and supportive place to live for the children that are part of the Restorative Parenting® programme.

Halliwell Homes is clinically informed practice encompassing educational, clinical and residential care services. Our objective is to enhance the psychological wellbeing of children within the care system through our Restorative Parenting recovery programme.

What does the role entail:

You will be working very closely with the Lead Teacher and the Executive Headteacher, undertaking any additional tasks/responsibilities as directed by the Lead Teacher. The postholder will know their students’ interests and abilities and plan to capture their imaginations and make learning relevant to their lives and link tasks to relevance in real world contexts and other subjects.

You will plan lessons and SOW with challenging learning objectives and aspirational outcomes. Monitoring student progress over time and set appropriately challenging, learning objectives which develop skills and knowledge.

You will know students' targets in all National Curriculum subjects and plan lessons that engage, enable, and excite them. The postholder will set challenging learning objectives which ensure students make progress which is at least good. Planning and assessing to develop the literacy, numeracy and communication skills of the students.

You will regularly and formally track and discuss progress against targets with students, model positivity, enthusiasm and commitment and be sensitive and alert to students’ changing needs.

You will work towards becoming a professional role model in demeanour, appearance and attitude, ensuring positive classroom conditions for learning (organised resources, stimulating environment, seating plan for learning).

The successful candidate will have the following Requirements:

• Must hold valid Right To Work in the UK
• Must hold UK Manual Drivers Licence with access to own vehicle
• Extensive experience working with children in an education setting
• An understanding of the effects trauma can have on a child's presentation and/or experience working with SEMH needs

What we can offer you:

• Becoming part of the Employee Ownership Trust with Halliwell Homes
• Free annual GymPass Membership.
• Free access to Perkbox Account.
• Refer a Friend Scheme up to £1400
• Free access to Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Free access to your own personal Financial Awareness Planning
• Free access to a company laptop and Mobile phone (Role dependent).
• Free access to well-being initiatives
• Free on-site Parking
• Auto-Enrolment Pension Scheme
• We offer a highly competitive rate of pay and access to a career pathway including access to professional qualification studies funded up to Level 7 (Masters)
• Comprehensive training, professional development opportunities and the support of senior colleagues.