About this Role
Attendance andInclusion Teaching Assistant
Location: Clifton, Bedfordshire
School: Clifton All Saints Academy
Salary: From £13.70 per hour
Contract: 30 hours per week - term time only
Clifton All Saints Academy is seeking to appoint an Attendance andInclusion Teaching Assistant (AITA) to join our team. The successful applicantwill become part of a forward thinking school, which looks to support our mostvulnerable children with their attendance and inclusion in school life as wellas in the classroom.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, compassionate, flexible and highlymotivated individual to work alongside our school leaders, admin staff andclass teachers to improve attendance and inclusion through working with pupilsand parents. Our Attendance and Inclusion Teaching Assistant will help trackstudent attendance, supports families to overcome barriers to coming to school,and promotes an inclusive environment for all children
The school has an excellent reputation for supporting vulnerablechildren with SEND or from disadvantaged backgrounds. As a result of this wehave an exciting and innovative opportunity to support these pupils in a dualrole. The role will involve splitting your time between monitoring and checkingattendance across the school, completing activities and support to improveattendance and supporting vulnerable pupils in their learning environment as ateaching assistant, including in our pre-school.
In the morning, the AITA will work with families to support, primarily,attendance and other learning barriers. The AIA will assist the schoolInclusion and Attendance lead/SENDCo, colleagues, school and the LocalAuthority in maintaining effective contact and communication withparents/carers and families where support and intervention are needed and/orongoing.
In the afternoon the AITA will work as a teaching assistant supportingindividuals with their learning.
The AITA will aim to improve and maintain school attendance figures andprovide support to pupils. The AIA will also engage with parents/carers andfamilies to encourage good attendance and provide support to improve attendanceand learning outcomes for pupils.
Our AITA will provide a complementary service to teaching and otherstaff, addressing the needs of children who require assistance in overcomingbarriers to learning in order to achieve their full potential, or accessing thecurriculum.
The AITA will work with a range of pupils especially those experiencingmultiple disadvantages including children with special or medical needsincluding SEMH, children with challenging behaviour and children with astatement of special educational needs.
The role requires you to:
- AttendanceTracking: Monitor daily registers, log absences, and track patterns of latenessusing school computer systems.
- Family Engagement:Contact parents or carers regarding unexplained absences and help bridge thegap between home and school.
- Inclusion Support:Work with pupils who face emotional, behavioral, or medical hurdles that affecttheir ability to attend school full-time.
- AdministrativeDuties: Maintain secure student records, prepare paperwork for review meetings,and assist the pastoral or SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities)teams.
- Multi-AgencyLiaison: Work alongside external services like education welfare officers tosupport vulnerable students.
- Support pupils in aclassroom, internal provision, including 1:1 support for children with SENDneeds
- Carry out parentcontract meetings where pupils are persistently absent
- Support pupils withmedical needs and other issues which prevent full-time attendance by liaisingwith staff, parents/carers and other professionals to provide pupils withmissed schoolwork.
- Attend relevantmeetings regarding the wellbeing of specific pupils
- Deliver a range ofstructured interventions (Hamish and Milo, SNIP, SCERT)
- Promote inclusionthrough the development of social skills, language and emotional well-being.
- Work under thedirection of the class teacher and SENDCO and liaise with other professionalsboth within and outside the school.
- Show a high degreeof initiative and be able to react to given situations with integrity andcompassion.
- Support childrenwith a range of SEND needs
Desirable characteristics
- experience inworking with children with SEND in a 1:1 role
- experiencesupporting children with ASD, Speech and Language, Global Delay and Cognitionand Learning difficulties
- experiencesupporting intimate care
- experiencesupporting children with language delay and social communication difficulties
- experiencesupporting children with social emotional and mental health difficulties
- The ability to identify, in associationwith colleagues, pupils who would benefit from support.
- The ability toproduce reports.
- The ability toprovide outreach to families and work with parents to help pupils achieve theirtargets.
- Experience ofattendance monitoring and management, including working with external agencies.
- There is an elementof midday lunch supervision within this role.
In return we can offer you:
- A truly childcentred, friendly and holistic school
- A strong team andschool community
- A caring Christianethos
- Excellentprofessional development where all staff are nurtured.
- The support ofcommitted, dedicated colleagues.
- A school which isreflective and strives for continual improvement.
- A safe andnurturing environment for our staff as well as our pupils
- A supportive andsolution focused SLT who are dedicated to school improvement
- An SLT who areexperienced in coaching and mentoring
As well as:
- Progressionpathways
- Comprehensive wholeschool CPD programme
- Comprehensiveindividual CPD programme
- Staff discount foronsite Wrap Around Care
- Onsite parking
Wewill hold rolling interviews until the positions are filled.
The school is committed to safeguarding andpromoting the welfare of children. We expect all staff to share thiscommitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screeningappropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and theDisclosure & Barring Service (DBS). CVs will not be accepted for any postsbased in schools. Applicants may be subject to online searches.
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Contact Details:
Clifton All Saints Academy Recruitment Team
