1:1 Teaching Assistant – Stafford

Zest Education is recruiting for a 1:1 Teaching Assistant to work at a primary school in Stafford. This role will be due to start asap.

This Primary School provides excellence in education where children flourish and reach their full potential.  Learners are inspired to work collaboratively, developing a life-long love of learning in a safe, stimulating and vibrant environment, where positive development of mental health and wellbeing is encouraged and supported. This learning is underpinned by strong values that encourage the children to become highly motivated, inquisitive, resilient individuals that thrive in our ever-changing society.

The role will see you work under the direct instruction of teaching staff, usually in the classroom with the teacher. You will be required to provide specific support to the teacher in the care of pupils and management of the classroom.  Work may be carried out in the classroom or outside the main teaching area.

You will:

• Provide pastoral support to pupils within the school environment.
• Assist children in matters of personal needs and their general health including first aid and welfare matters.
• Support and guide pupils to develop personally, socially and emotionally.
• Provide structured support in accordance with specific work programmes designed and supervised by individual teachers.
• Engage pupils in the curriculum through delivery of structured support designed by individual teachers with a focus on the development of key academic skills in core subjects.
• Provide structured support in accordance with specific work programmes designed and supervised by individual teachers, including phonics, reading and key skills in other core subjects
• Support the teacher in the development and implementation of Personal Learning/Behaviour Plans.
• Assist in maintaining classroom discipline through the implementation of the school’s behaviour management strategies.
• Assist the teacher in monitoring pupils’ responses to learning activities and accurately record achievement/progress as directed.

You must: 

•  comply with policies and procedures relating to child protection, health, safety and security, confidentiality and data protection, reporting all concerns to an appropriate person.
• Promote and safeguard the welfare of children and young persons you are responsible for or come into contact with.
• comply and engage with people management policies and processes
• Have a firm but fair approach to learning

If you are interested in this position or want to find out more, email Jo  at Joanne@zesteducation.co.uk or ‘apply for job’ at the top of the page to submit your details.

Zest Education are an REC audited agency and are dedicated to safeguarding children. All candidates must hold an enhanced DBS (or allow us to process one for you) and be registered to the DBS Update Service, be able to provide references to cover the last two years and successfully pass all other necessary safeguarding checks prior to clearance for work.

Salary is dependent on experience, training, or qualifications. The minimum experience, training, or qualifications required for this position are recent school-based experience (within the last 5 years within a school that teaches the British Curriculum) and/or care-based experience within the last 5 years.

The role advertised is for temporary supply work.

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