Higher Level Teaching Assistant (SEND)

Main purpose of the job:

As a HLTA, you will undertake the duties of a teaching assistant as well as providing specialist support to groups or individual pupils in their learning. You will be supporting teachers in establishing a supportive and nurturing learning environment in which children make good academic progress, and you will be instrumental in our mission to provide every student, regardless of their background, a great education and real choices in life.

Objectives:

• 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 and evaluate 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
• Contributed to curriculum planning
• Assist with whole class teaching
• Give lessons planned by a teacher or supervise work set by a 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.
• Use specialist skills to meet the intellectual, physical, social and emotional needs of pupils
• Assess the needs of pupils and contribute to the development of education plans

• Designated Lead for the school in a specialist areas, and share expertise and skills with others
• Contribute to identification and planning of out of school learning activities to consolidate and extend work carried out in class
• 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

• Twice as many training days as standard
• Weekly staff training designed to meet the needs of the school
• Coaching for every teacher
• Access to high-quality, regular professional development
• Subject-specific knowledge development
• Free use of our leisure centre
• Access to the school counsellor