Teaching Assistant

Job Overview

Required for Septemeber, a Teaching Assistant to join an exciting Secondary School that opened in 2012. Riverside School serves the growing Barking Riverside community on the banks of the Thames in superb newly-built accommodation and is already fully-subscribed.

“Excellence for All” on Barking Riverside.

The person appointed will be responsible for work across the areas outlined below:

• Support pupils with SEN
• Contribute to discussions concerning pupils with SEN to inform for planning/reviewing or monitoring purposes.
• Be conversant with and use information technology equipment available within the school, loading information when appropriate.
• Assist, under the guidance of appropriate professional staff, with the implementation of behaviour programmes.
• Ensure pupils’ access to classroom activities.
• Assist, as appropriate, pupils with SEN in a range of activities outside the classroom e.g. pastoral support, school trips.
• Contribute verbal/written reports on pupils with SEN for review purposes.
• Be responsible, in the school setting, for the health, safety and welfare of pupils with SEN.
  
  

The Successful Applicant Will Have The Following Qualities

• Good interpersonal communication skills.
• Flexibility and reliability.
• To be able to work as a member of a team as well under their own initiative.
• Organisational and time management skills.
• A passion for the enrichment of young people’s lives.
  
  

The above duties are neither exclusive nor exhaustive and the post holder will be required to carry out such other appropriate duties as may be required by the Headteacher within the grading level of the post and the competence of the post holder.

The school is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and as such all appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check and digital screening. Appointments are also subject to satisfactory references/medical clearance.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. It is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.