SEN Teaching Assistant

Supreme Recruitment are currenly recruiting for :-

Teaching Assistants with SEN experence.

West London

1 to 1 and Classroom SEN

­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­Purpose of Role

To support teachers, experienced teaching assistants and apprentices in providing for the personal care and medical needs of pupils including hoisting, physiotherapy programmes, manual handling and support in eating, drinking and using the toilet. To also support the development of learning, independence, communication and behaviour under the guidance of the classroom team.

Main Duties

To be part of a classroom team, under the direction of the class teacher and experienced teaching assistants

• To work alongside the teaching assistant and teacher to maintain a purposeful, orderly, supportive and safe environment
• To assist with the development of resources for teaching activities, alongside the classroom team
• To assist the classroom team in delivering educational programmes, designed by the teacher and the therapists working in school
• To take part in team meetings, reporting on pupil performance
• To support pupils with their personal care including feeding and toileting
• To support pupils medical needs including those who are tube fed and those who may need emergency medication, suction or oxygen after training and when there is a trained healthcare assistant on site and a qualified nurse visiting regularly.
• To supervise pupils during leisure time including on the playground
• To be aware of the schools child protection policies and procedures and report immediately to the class teacher and or the head teacher any concerns about a pupils wellbeing
• To use experienced staff as a source of advice and guidance in developing own practice
• Use communication strategies as identified in ILP's and SALT programmes
• Support pupils in developing ICT skills
• To use ICT skills in their everyday work- taking photographs, videos to record progress
• Follow Health and Safety procedures and report issues promptly
• Follow PHP's using identified strategies to keep everyone safe
• To undertake flexibly any other reasonable requests made by the head teacher, head of department or class teacher in line with the duties of support staff.

FULL VETTING REQUIRED