Teaching Assistant

The Aurora Group; Kidderminster; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job description

Overview and Responsibilities

Teaching Assistant – Aurora Wilden View

Location: Torton, Kidderminster

Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent, Term time only

Hours: Full-time, 40 hours per week

Hourly Rate: £12.37 - £13.49 per hour

Annual Salary: £22,102.72 - £24,103.93 actual salary

The Aurora Group

The Aurora Group is an innovative provider of education and care for children, young people and adults with special educational needs and disabilities.

About Aurora Wilden View

Are you ready to make a transformative impact in the lives of young people with SEMH needs and associated challenging behaviour linked to Autistic Spectrum Conditions? Do you have the ambition and drive to inspire the next generation who have already experienced a turbulent time prior to joining us? Can you be their stability and their champion? If so, we want you to join our dynamic and collaborative team at Aurora Wilden View!

Aurora Wilden View is a beautiful, purposeful school set in a 20-acre site with huge potential as we celebrate our one-year anniversary since opening. We want to offer the best for our young people and this means enhancing our curriculum offer and ensuring our young people have access to a wide range of pathways to allow them to move to the next stage of their development.

The role:

As one of our new Teaching Assistants, your role will be to support our children with their learning and general wellbeing to ensure every child has the best opportunity to reach their full potential in a caring and safe environment. Where necessary, this may include supporting with care needs from time to time as well as positive behaviour management adopting a tailored approach to the individual child.

You will be expected to establish a warm, caring and supportive relationship with pupils in order to support them feeling safe and enabling them to enjoy and learn during their time at the School, and to promote and encourage independence and personal development in pupils while maintaining high expectations of behaviour at all times.

You will support the class teacher and contribute to providing high quality, challenging and differentiated educational activities and experiences through supporting the teaching of a broad and balanced curriculum aiming at pupils achieving their full potential in all areas of learning.

Duties will vary, and you must expect to diversify and lend a hand wherever required.

Skills and Qualifications

Experience & Qualifications:

• Working towards Level 2 award in Support work in schools or an equivalent is desirable.
• GCSE Maths and English Level 2/C or above qualification is essential.
• Understanding of the Safeguarding principles and Child Protection procedures.
• Knowledge or experience of pupils with SEN or SEMH/ASD, ideally in an education setting.
• Commitment to the role, the desire to put the child first and treat them as an individual.
• Be positive and creative in meeting pupils’ needs.

Benefits and Additional Information

What’s on offer?

• Full training and continued support.
• Opportunity to gain qualifications, which will be funded by us!
• Perkbox subscription.
• Life assurance and Enhanced pension scheme.
• Car lease scheme.
• Bike to work scheme.
• Free parking.
• Free membership to our Health cash back plan - Claim back money on services such as dental, optical, physio and many more.

Apply/Enquiries

If you are interested in this role then please apply online and complete our application form. For more information on this position please contact 07918 144908 / [e-mail].

Applications to be made via our online application form.

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.

The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer.

This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled.

Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.