Teaching Assistant for KS2 – Harrow - September 2024

Role – KS2 Teaching Assistant

Location – Harrow

Are you an experienced teaching assistant who is looking for an exciting opportunity and a new challenge?

Job Description:

• Plan with colleagues for the care and education of the children. This will include regular ongoing planning of the day, taking into account the needs and abilities of individual children.
• Work as part of the team to plan and organise a clean, tidy, safe and stimulating environment.
• Establish professional relationships with other bodies, including parents and all those who come into contact with the school.
• Keep records and carry out activities in line with the curriculum.
• Observe and assess the needs and progress of children in all areas of their development and share those observations, both verbally and in writing, with colleagues and parents (within the school framework and under the direction of the class teacher).
• Independently plan, prepare and supervise specific appropriate activities for small groups or individual pupils – both indoors and outside.
• Assist the teacher with children requiring special care i.e. new entrants, sick, children with Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities, or children who are distressed for various reasons.
• Care for the general welfare of the children, greet them, help them to dress and undress and assist in the cloakroom and toilets and at medical examinations.
• Be responsible for the care of sick children with support of the welfare officer.

Person Specification:

• Graduate or NNEB or NVQ Level 3 in Child Care or equivalent qualification (desirable)
• Experience of teaching and learning in KS2 (essential)
• Experience of teaching/supporting phonics and early reading (desirable)
• Experience of teaching/supporting pupils with Special Educational Needs or Disabilities (desirable)
• First Aid qualification (desirable) or willingness to obtain one (essential)

• Uphold the Christian and bilingual ethos of the school. (essential)
• Understand and respect social, cultural, linguistic, religious and ethnic backgrounds. (essential)
• Able to build and maintain successful relationships with pupils, treating them equitably with respect and consideration. (essential)
• Demonstrate a commitment and ability to raise educational achievement of all pupils and to promote positive values, attitudes and behaviour. (essential)
• Demonstrate a willingness and ability to improve own practices and methodologies through the utilisation of available information, tools, evaluation, observation and discussion with colleagues, mentors and line-managers. (essential)
• Understand the roles of parents and carers in pupils’ learning and development and demonstrate ability to liaise with parents and carers sensitively and effectively. (essential)

If you are interested in this Teaching Assistant opportunity, interviews & lesson observations can be arranged immediately!

We are dedicated to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. You will have a safeguarding responsibility if appointed. The successful candidate will be subject to enhanced clearance through the Disclosure and Barring Service and employment will be subject to references. This post is not exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.