Teaching Assistant – Secondary

Grade: Grade 6

Contractual hours: 30 hours a week, term time only

Accountable to: Head of SEND

Purpose of the Job

• To assist teachers in providing a learning environment that enables all children to access the curriculum and learn to the best of their ability.
• To work with and support children with a variety of academic, physical and emotional/behavioural needs on a class, group or individual basis.
• To work with and support an identified child with specified academic, physical and emotional/behavioural/medical needs on an individual basis if required.

Key Accountabilities

• To work with individuals or groups of children, as directed by the class teacher and the SENCo, to support subjects and learning across the whole curriculum (according to the requirements of the school, this may include the supervision of a classroom for peri...