Reading Ambassador - Level 3 Specialist Teaching Assistant - (SEND, SEMH)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Key Purpose of Post
A focus on providing reading support for our pupils and to work with the teaching staff to enable access to learning and quality education for pupils across the school within KS1/2/3/4/5 by supporting behaviour and pupil well-being.
Our Level 3 Specialist Teaching Assistants form part of the dedicated whole staff team. All of our Level 3 Specialist Teaching Assistants are employed specifically to work with individual or small groups of pupils under the direction of the class teacher/form tutor supporting the pupils’ learning and behaviour.Specific skills of individual Level 3 Specialist Teaching Assistants are taken into account. As a Reading Ambassador/ Specialist Teaching Assistant, you will also support our pupils in all aspects of reading, giving encouragement and support to develop their reading skills.
What the school offers its staff
We are a high-performing, SEMH special school which was judged as Outstanding in every area by Ofsted in June 2023. We are not remotely complacent about this and are committed to ensuring that the quality of provision we offer to our students is consistently excellent.We believe that such sustained success is a team effort and every member of staff contributes to that level of excellence. We are a relatively small school, but we still have a distinctly ‘family’ atmosphere. Visitors to the School often comment on the friendly and supportive ethos.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.