Teaching Assistant

Hello Education are supporting a Primary School in the County Durham area who are needing a Teaching Assistant to start with them asap, this is an ongoing role with the potential to become permanent. Your role will be to assist teachers in the classroom whilst supporting the pupils’ learning and development. You will be required to provide learning support in general to the class or occasionally doing intervention/group work, SENd experience is advantageous as you will be required to also work 1:1 with a pupil. the school is relatively small therefore flexibility across all year groups will be needed. We are looking for the following qualities in applicants: ·Have experience of working with children with additional needs but not essential ·Friendly, positive and pro-active attitude ·Passion for education ·Ability to use initiative ·Reliability ·Adaptability ·Team player ·Good organisational skills ·Excellent communication skills As a Teaching Assistant your roles and responsibilities include: ·Promoting good behaviour/ managing challenging behaviour ·Aiding pupils in their learning as effectively as possible ·Providing feedback on learning and development to the teacher ·Creating and maintaining an orderly and supportive learning environment ·Administrative tasks Hello Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We undertake safeguarding checks on all workers in accordance with DfE statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ this may also include an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted applicants. training. All pay rates quoted will be inclusive of 12.07% statutory holiday pay. This advert is for a temporary position. In some cases, the option to make this role permanent may become available at a later date. All candidates must undertake or have undertaken a valid enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check