SUPPORT FOR THE STUDENT
- Support and direct activities with eitherindividuals or groups of students to ensure their safety and facilitate theirphysical, emotional and cognitive development
- Contribute to the health and well-being ofstudents
- Establish and maintain good workingrelationships with individual students and groups
- Promote and reinforce the students’ self-esteemand independence e.g. support in form time,unstructured time etc.
- Encourage acceptance and inclusion of allstudents
- To support groups of students as directed duringformal public or internal school examinations
- To assist students on work placements,educational visits, residential, and recreational activities asappropriate
- To assist students with self-organisation and inthe completion of homework tasks, in allocated periods during the school day
- Drawing on knowledge of various forms ofindividual needs, to develop an understanding of the specific needs of thestudents within the school community Toliaise effectively with parents/carers as appropriate
- To assume responsibility for designatedkeyworker role at School Action Plus and/or a named EHCP child
- To assist the other health care assistants incarrying out their role in providing specific assistance to personal care needsof students
- To ensure that you cover the role of personalcare in a colleague’s absence with guidance from the SENCo/ Lead SEND teacherand Level 2 Teaching Assistants
- To provide care, as and when needed, on off sitevisits and trips
- To provide practical and personal assistant toindividual pupil needs
- To assist students with their day to daypersonal care needs, personal hygiene, toileting and feeding
- To promote students’ independence skills inrelation to personal hygiene, toileting and feeding
- To monitor the behaviour of students,encouraging positive behaviour and reporting any incidents
- To ensure the safety and well-being of children,providing support where necessary or signposting concerns to colleagues
- To liaise with external agencies, whereappropriate, talking through therapeutic programmes and discussing programmes
- To write specific health care plans/PersonalEvacuation Plans for key students
- To be responsible for the recording anddistribution of medicines
- To support students over break and lunch times
- Help with the collation of Review/Annual Reviewmeetings
- Help with classroom resources and records
- To implement learning programmes a directed bythe class teacher – with individual or small groups
- To monitor individual student’s needs andprovide regular feedback to the teacher
- Contribute to the management of studentbehaviour
- To participate in the evaluation of the supportprogramme
- To contribute to the maintenance and developmentof the Learning Support Faculty
- Support and reinforce the school curriculumincluding catch up KS3/GCSE work, literacy, numeracy activities in a 1:1setting and in the classroom
- Provide support for learning activitiesincluding enrichment activities during the normal school day
- Support the use and development of ICT withinthe classroom
- Support the smooth running of the Faculty bycovering designated priority lessons of absent staff as and when required bythe SENCo
- To take responsibility for display and up keepof designated areas in the Faculty
- Maintain effective working relationships withcolleagues and parents
- Maintain and safeguard the confidential natureof student/teacher/home issues
- Contribute to the maintenance of student safetyand security, including break and lunchtime duties in the Faculty and taxiduties
- Attend Faculty/Pastoral meetings as appropriate
SUPPORT THE TEACHER
SUPPORT FOR THE CURRICULUM
SUPPORT FOR THE SCHOOL
