Teaching Assistant in Preston

Ribble Autism School are recruiting for a Teaching Assistant to join our Education team now! We are looking for versatile, resilient and committed Teaching Assistants who can adapt their practice wherever necessary to support across all key stages. The successful candidate will work alongside the class teacher, assisting the children with their work and supporting with pupil behaviour while establishing good relationships with pupils, acting as a role model and responding to individual needs.

Our benefits include exclusive access to reward and discount scheme, comprehensive induction, commitment to your ongoing training and career progression, pension scheme, paid for enhanced DBS, wellbeing support, cycle to work scheme and more!

Located just south of Preston, Ribble Autism School is a new independent specialist school for boys and girls aged 4 to 11 years who have severe autism and severe learning difficulties, including behaviours that challenge and associated anxiety. The school offers a warm and welcoming environment, where a positive education allows all pupils to experience success. Our ethos was created on the belief that a positive, supportive and achieving culture is essential for creating an outstanding school that meets the needs of young people. These pupils need an understanding environment in which to experience success, build self-belief and engage positively with learning.

At Aspris Children's Services, we are immensely proud of the career pathway and training we can offer you. As long as you can demonstrate the values needed for a role, transferable skills and life experience, we will give you all the training and support you need to progress!

Responsibilities

• Resilience - We support some of the most vulnerable children in society who have varying degrees of emotional behavioural difficulties, autism, ADHD and associated difficulties so there will be times where your resilience is challenged.
• Communication - Communicating with our young people is vital to understand their needs. Good teamwork and communication plays a key part in ensuring important information is relayed to other staff.
• Organisation - Strong organisational skills are important to support the class teacher and young people with educational activities.
• Caring - Our young people require the best care we can offer. If you are a naturally caring and compassionate person, this is the role for you.
• Attentive - No two tasks will be the same so being attentive to understand them and identify areas where we can support is important.

Above all, we provide a supportive and collaborative working environment where you can flourish in your career and feel incredibly rewarded by helping those who need it most. If you want residential childcare to be a job for life, Aspris Children's Services will help you get there.

Aspris is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All applicants must be willing to undergo safeguarding screening appropriate to the post, including checks with Disclosure & Barring Service and at least 2 references which cover the last 3 years; for all our services we will request references from where you have worked with either Children or Vulnerable Adults. Please be advised that references may be requested prior to interview for roles within our Schools.