Teaching Assistant, St Dominic's School

We are looking to recruit a number of Teaching Assistants to work with the pupils and students in our Lower and Upper Schools, to start ASAP.

Working alongside teachers, therapists and other support staff, you will provide support to groups and individuals. You will help to improve their engagement in learning, remove barriers to learning, improve attainment and promote their self-confidence and emotional well-being.

St Dominic's is able to offer an in-house training programme that allows Teaching Assistants to demonstrate key competencies in order to develop and improve practice and work towards specialisms within the role as well as aspiring to a range of other career opportunities in different disciplines. At St Dominic's, successful completion of the Teaching Assistant Competency Framework at Level 1 and 2 is linked to pay.

Please see the attached job description and person specification for full details on the role and the skills, experience and knowledge we are looking for.

What the school offers its staff

St Dominic's School is a special school in Godalming, Surrey, and stands in 56 acres of wooded grounds with ample space for outdoor learning activities. The school provides for 150 pupils and students between the ages of 7 - 19, who have a range of academic abilities and complex needs and with a primary diagnosis of speech language and communication needs and/or autistic spectrum conditions.

The school is the national lead in the 'blended' approach to teaching and learning and holds the Advanced Autism Accreditation and the prestigious Arts Council 'Artsmark' Silver Award.