Teaching Assistant L1

During your contract you will work and be paid for your contracted hours in a class and have specific development tasks to help support and expand your understanding of children with Special Educational Needs and how to best support them in a classroom environment. The areas of development that you will learn about include:

• Understanding the different needs of the children (including autism, physical needs and speech and language development)
• Understanding and supporting children with challenging behaviour - at St Luke's we follow a therapeutic approach to support children, which focusses on understanding the children's needs and putting strategies in place to reduce potential incidents
• Moving and Handling Training
• How to best support a teacher within a busy classroom environment
• Developing your understanding of communication skills, including Makaton signing
• Understanding child development
What the school offers its staff At St Luke's we are looking to appoint Level 1 Teaching Assistants who will have the opportunity to participate in a fixed term Development Programme to acquire the knowledge and skills to become a successful Teaching Assistant. Alongside specific training sessions you will also be assigned a mentor who will support your development. Over the year you will produce a portfolio of work to demonstrate what you have learnt. Your portfolio will include certificates of training, completed assignments and a personal reflective journal. Please note this development programme does not provide you with a recognised official Teaching Assistant Qualification. This is an exciting opportunity for candidates. As a comprehensive training package will be given no experience of working in schools is required for this role.