Higher Level Teaching Assistant

Woodeaton Manor is a Special School catering for pupils with Social Emotional and Mental Health Needs. We are a small school with 80 pupils, located in a Georgian Manor House, 5 miles outside of Oxford City in beautiful Oxfordshire countryside 

HLTA

Job overview 

The successful candidate will have

·     Experience of classroom practice, as a teacher or experienced TA

·     Pastoral experience / safeguarding experience

·     SEN / SEMH experience

·     Excellent communication skills

·     Confident, personable, and determined in nature

·     Effective behaviour management skills

·     De-escalation strategies and techniques

·     Some experience of safeguarding protocols

·     Personal initiative

·     A strong belief in providing the very best for young people who need it most

We can offer:

·        A friendly work environment and a supportive leadership team.

·        A team dedicated to making a difference to pupils who need it most.

·        Employee Assistant Programme.

·        Continuous CPD opportunities.

This is an outstanding opportunity for someone who wants to join a high performing school and gain significant experience to further enhance their career.  

Main purpose

·          To complement the professional work of teachers by taking responsibility for agreed learning activities under an agreed system of supervision and assisting the teaching staff in the

·          implementation of National Curriculum/Developmental Curriculum and School Curriculum. This may involve planning, preparing, and delivering learning activities for individuals/groups or short term for whole classes and monitoring pupils and assessing, recording, and reporting on pupils’ achievements, progress, and development.

·        Be responsible for the management and development of a specialist area within the school and/or management of other teaching assistants including allocation and monitoring of work, appraisal, and training.

·        Be responsible for communication liaising between managers/teaching staff and teaching assistants as well as organising and chairing TA meetings at least termly and actioning any points raised.

·        Undertake if required, recruitment/induction/appraisal/training/mentoring for other teaching assistants and ensure that new TAs have completed a full induction process following the school policy and are well versed with Health and Safety issues throughout the school.