In collaboration with the Base Leader and Specialist Autism and Communication Teaching Assistants:
To act as a keyworker for one or two students who access the base.
- To support SEND leaders and subject staff in ensuring students with SEND consistently make at least good progress across the curriculum and attend 80% of their mainstream lessons.
- To ensure all appropriate pupil records are regularly maintained to a high standard under the guidance of SEND leaders.
- To liaise with the subject staff, Subject Leaders, Learning Managers, parents and SEND leaders as appropriate to ensure students make good progress.
- To ensure the relevant health and safety regulations are observed at all times.
Specific Tasks
- To provide direct input into the day to day learning and development of pupils with ASD with a diverse range of abilities, but who would usually be capable of accessing a mainstream curriculum providing in-class support through resources, scribing, aiding completion of tasks, enabling use of IT or other specific duties as directed.
- To access teachers’ planning to differentiate and adapt as appropriate for students using the base, or to plan alternative activities that are easier/more appropriate for the student to access
- To plan and deliver interventions, ie social, emotional and life skills work to help students in the base become more independent and included in their community.
- To work on a one-to-one basis or a small group situation supporting students learning and progress across the curriculum.
- To provide reports to inform Annual SEN Audit Annual reviews, Annual Reviews and parents evening as directed.
- To monitor and review EHCP (Education Health and Care Plan) targets and their implementation, ensuring staff awareness and appropriateness of targets.
- To be a key worker for named students and liaise with class teachers, academic mentors, SEND Leaders and parents regularly to facilitate student progress in all aspects of education and social and emotional development.
- To assist in de-escalation of management of challenging behaviours including aggression in the base, using Somerset Team Teach policies and base protocols.
- To implement teaching and learning strategies, including: TEACCH, Curriculum Differentiation, Independence Programmes and life skills, Social skills, Emotional Development and creating A&C Friendly Environments.
- To understand and promote safeguarding, undertake regular CP training and follow base e-safety policies with regard to the use of personal IT devices.
- To attend training courses as needed to help with your own personal continuing professional development.
- To act as a reader and/or scribe as required in both internal and external examinations.
- To be a champion for SEND.
- To support students with SEND on educational visits to facilitate their inclusion.
- To participate in and attend meetings as directed.
- To share good practice in differentiation and catering for students with SEND.
- To listen to students read and develop their reading skills and interest in and love of reading.
- Seek to ensure the promotion and facilitation of student’s self-esteem, effort and behaviour.
- To support and promote the development of all students in becoming independent learners.
- Contribute to the assessment of pupils’ learning by providing feedback on learning outcomes and progress of learning within a lesson to class teachers.
- Contribute to the implementation of the curriculum and monitoring specific individual targets for students.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: £18,421.00-£19,011.00 per year
Benefits:
- Gym membership
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Sick pay
- Store discount
Work Location: In person
