Job Title: Teaching Assistant
Location: Oxford
Salary: £20,202 per year.
Job type: Permanent, Full time.
The Role:
Here at The Mulberry Bush, our work transforms the lives of all those affected by childhood trauma, through specialist therapeutic services. We’re looking for individuals to join our ever growing team to maintain our professional and industry renowned standards.
Since 1948 we have been helping traumatised children and those around them through the creation of therapeutic environments within which children can build healthy relationships, discover the benefits of education and start to rebuild their lives.
The Education team provides high standards of education, support, and boundary-setting in order that children at the school are helped through each day in a manner that ensures the greatest possible meaning, continuity and healthy emotional containment.
Many of the children in our care have developed coping mechanisms built on attracting attention through negative behaviour. We look to provide children with ways of re-defining themselves and their personalities through positive experiences, focussing on their strengths, understanding their regressive tendencies and providing nurture when needed.
Key Responsibilities and Duties:
- Lead the learning process with pupils or groups of pupils with their tasks or activities following the direction and guidance of the teacher to enable their difficulties to be minimised and support children to make maximum progress.
- Work with each individual or small groups to encourage independence, develop personal confidence and enable maximum progress to be achieved.
- Support and assist pupils with social integration, advise them on strategies to deal with problems they encounter; seek appropriate professional help when necessary referring.
- Liaise with the class teacher in advance of the lessons to identify necessary preparation. Create learning materials in consultation with the class teacher. Help maintain a well-organised, tidy and stimulating classroom environment.
- Identify issues of concern and positive feedback to be shared with care staff and the child’s treatment team and, following discussion with the teaching team, liaise with care staff and the child’s treatment team.
- Keep records of events and progress, as directed by the class teacher. Bring issues of concern to the teaching team.
- Provide a good level of basic child care including administering simple first aid, changing children who have soiled and liaising with qualified first aiders regarding any medical issues.
- Supervise pupils during the school day, maintaining a level of health and safety. This may include having to physically intervene to support a child.
- Provide some continuity to the running of the classroom in the teacher’s absence.
- Work as a member of the Education Team attending team meetings and participating in training and development work and assisting in the planning and preparation of the classroom.
- Undertake other reasonable duties of a similar level and nature to the post as directed by the class teacher or Head Teacher.
- Engage in reflective practice including individual supervision, group supervision and reflective groups.
Essential Skills/Qualification:
- A good standard of literacy and numeracy skills.
- Basic knowledge of information technology.
- Willingness to participate in training and developmental opportunities offered by the school.
- Experience of establishing positive relationships with children.
- Experience of working with or caring for school-age children.
Desirable Skills/Qualifications:
- Evidence of professional development or study.
- Experience of working with children who have special educational needs, particularly social, emotional and behaviour difficulties.
- Experience of working in an early years setting.
- Experience of work in socially and culturally diverse setting.
- Experience of working in a multi-professional setting.
Benefits:
- 50 days annual leave
- Employer contribution pension
- High level of support and supervision
- Award winning training
- Staff Wellbeing Scheme
- Level 5 Foundation Degree included within the role
- Casual Dress
- On-Site Car Parking
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