TEACHING ASSISTANT | KINGSTON | IMMEDIATE START

Ortus Recruitment are looking for a Teaching Assistant to support individuals and small groups of students to enable access to learning, contributing to the development and maintenance of a purposeful, nurturing learning environment.

Your main responsibilities include:

• To supervise and provide support for identified students, in 1:1 or small groups ensuring their safety and access to learning.
• To assist in the development of appropriate resources, schemes of work and teaching strategies, working with the teacher to ensure the provision supports each identified students learning needs
• To assist in evaluating identified students progress through agreed assessment activities
• To provide detailed and regular feedback to teachers on student’s achievement, progress and needs
• To lead small group sessions and interventions as appropriate
• To attend to the students’ personal needs where required
• To support with behaviour management, using appropriate strategies in line with academy policy
• To contribute to creating a purposeful and supportive learning environment
• Undertake structured and agreed learning activities/teaching programmes as appropriate, adjusting activities to ensure achievement of learning goals

Qualifications, knowledge & training

• Educated to a degree level or equivalent
• Some knowledge of strategies in working with children and challenging behaviours
• Knowledge of some of the social issues facing students from disadvantaged backgrounds
• Awareness of Health and Safety issues in the workplace

Experience:

• Experience working directly with children of the primary age range in an educational or training environment, supporting the learning of students
• Experience of establishing and maintaining positive working relationships with a range of stakeholders at all levels
• Experience of managing and being responsible for own workload

Personal skills, abilities & qualities

• Good literacy and numeracy skills
• Good interpersonal and communication skills, with an excellent standard of written and spoken English
• Good organisation skills
• Ability to interest, encourage, motivate, and engage children
• Ability to work as part of a team, working effectively with people across a wide range of levels and responsibilities
• Ability work using own initiative, exercising good judgement where unsupervised
• Flexibility to approach work

Why should YOU work with Ortus Recruitment?

• Fantastic pay rates – PAYE
• Dedicated specialist consultants
• Specialise in long-term, full-time work
• Generous referral scheme
• Local offices
• REC corporate members