Teaching Assistant

Salary:                              Grade 4 SCP 4-6

Hours:                              32.5

Weeks:                              38 weeks (excludes inset days)

School:                            Parklands Community Primary and Nursery School

Contract Type:               Temp – two terms

Reporting to:                  Headteacher

Responsible for:            Supporting Teaching and Learning

Role Introduction

Your role will play a vital part in supporting teaching and learning, helping all children to achieve their full potential within a positive, nurturing, and inclusive environment. A key focus of the role is working with children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), providing targeted support to individuals and small groups to help them access the curriculum, develop confidence, and make excellent progress. You will work closely with teachers to adapt learning activities, implement support strategies, prepare resources, and monitor pupil engagement and achievement. The Teaching Assistant role is essential in promoting high-quality learning experiences, developing independence, supporting positive behaviour, and ensuring that every child feels valued, included, and successful in their learning journey.

This is a flexible role that will be shaped around the strengths of the successful candidate and the needs of our pupils. The position may involve working within our Inclusion Base, supporting a small group of children requiring specialist provision outside of the mainstream classroom, primarily across the Early Years Foundation Stage and Year 1. Alternatively, the role may be based within our mainstream provision across Key Stage 1 or Key Stage 2. In all cases, the central focus will be on supporting children with SEND, helping them to achieve positive outcomes academically, socially, and emotionally.

Responsibilities

Supporting Learning & Teaching:

1. Work in partnership with teachers to adapt learning and provide targeted support
2. Deliver targeted teaching and intervention programmes for individuals and small groups
3. Support pupils with a range of special educational needs and disabilities, including those with communication and interaction needs, cognition and learning needs, social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) needs, and sensory or physical needs.
4. The postholder works under the direction and supervision of the class teacher and senior staff and does not carry responsibility for curriculum planning or assessment decisions
5. Monitor pupil engagement and outcomes within interventions and provide feedback to the teacher or SENCo, in line with agreed procedures
6. Support pupils in a way that promotes independence, confidence and resilience, encouraging them to develop self‑help strategies and reducing support appropriately over time
7. Foster positive attitudes to learning and help pupils to regulate their own behaviour and engagement
8. Help to assess and track student progress, providing feedback to the teacher.

Classroom Support & Management:

1. Model, teach and promote positive behaviour, helping pupils to develop the social, emotional and self-regulation skills needed to succeed in learning while maintaining a safe and supportive environment
2. Set up and organize classroom resources and learning materials
3. Provide supervision and assistance during lunch breaks, playtimes, and school trips
4. Promote inclusion and equal opportunities for all students.

Administrative Duties:

1. Support teachers with marking and preparing learning materials
2. Maintain records of student progress, attainment and behaviour when required

Pastoral & Safeguarding Responsibilities:

1. Play a key role in developing pupils’ social, emotional and communication skills, helping them to build positive relationships, resilience, confidence and independence
2. Follow safeguarding procedures to ensure student well-being and safety
3. Work positively and collaboratively with the team, parents and external professionals
4. Where required, provide support for pupils’ personal care and medical needs, in line with individual care plans, training received, and school policies.

Health and Safety:

1. Promote the safety and wellbeing of pupils, and help to safeguard pupils by following the requirements of Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) and our school’s child protection policy

Please note that this job description is illustrative of the general nature and level of responsibility of the role. It is not a comprehensive list of all tasks, and the post holder may be required to do other duties appropriate to the level of the role, as directed by the Head teacher.

Safeguarding

Concordia Multi Academy Trust is dedicated to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety of pupils. Successful applicants will be subject to rigorous vetting procedures, including but not limited to: An enhanced DBS check; Satisfactory references; and Online/Social Media Check.