About this role
SUPPORT FOR THE STUDENT
- Support and direct activities with either individuals or groups of students to ensure their safety and facilitate their physical, emotional and cognitive development
- Contribute to the health and well-being of students
- Establish and maintain good working relationships with individual students and groups
- Promote and reinforce the students’ self-esteem and independence e.g. support in form time, unstructured time etc.
- Encourage acceptance and inclusion of all students
- To support groups of students as directed during formal public or internal school examinations
- To assist students on work placements, educational visits, residential, and recreational activities as appropriate
- To assist students with self-organisation and in the completion of homework tasks, in allocated periods during the school day
- Drawing on knowledge of various forms of individual needs, to develop an understanding of the specific needs of the students within the school community
- To liaise effectively with parents/carers as appropriate
- To assume responsibility for designated keyworker role at School Action Plus and/or a named EHCP child
- To assist the other health care assistants in carrying out their role in providing specific assistance to personal care needs of students
- To ensure that you cover the role of personal care in a colleague’s absence with guidance from the SENCo/ Lead SEND teacher and Level 2 Teaching Assistants
- To provide care, as and when needed, on off site visits and trips
- To provide practical and personal assistant to individual pupil needs
- To assist students with their day to day personal care needs, personal hygiene, toileting and feeding
- To promote students’ independence skills in relation to personal hygiene, toileting and feeding
- To monitor the behaviour of students, encouraging positive behaviour and reporting any incidents
- To ensure the safety and well-being of children, providing support where necessary or signposting concerns to colleagues
- To liaise with external agencies, where appropriate, talking through therapeutic programmes and discussing programmes
- To write specific health care plans/Personal Evacuation Plans for key students
- To be responsible for the recording and distribution of medicines
- To support students over break and lunch times
- Help with the collation of Review/Annual Review meetings
- Help with classroom resources and records
- To implement learning programmes a directed by the class teacher – with individual or small groups
- To monitor individual student’s needs and provide regular feedback to the teacher
- Contribute to the management of student behaviour
- To participate in the evaluation of the support programme
- To contribute to the maintenance and development of the Learning Support Faculty
- Support and reinforce the school curriculum including catch up KS3/GCSE work, literacy, numeracy activities in a 1:1 setting and in the classroom
- Provide support for learning activities including enrichment activities during the normal school day
- Support the use and development of ICT within the classroom
- Support the smooth running of the Faculty by covering designated priority lessons of absent staff as and when required by the SENCo
- To take responsibility for display and up keep of designated areas in the Faculty
- Maintain effective working relationships with colleagues and parents
- Maintain and safeguard the confidential nature of student/teacher/home issues
- Contribute to the maintenance of student safety and security, including break and lunchtime duties in the Faculty and taxi duties
- Attend Faculty/Pastoral meetings as appropriate
SUPPORT THE TEACHER
SUPPORT FOR THE CURRICULUM
SUPPORT FOR THE SCHOOL