Teaching Assistant

Aspris


Date: 3 hours ago
City: Preston
Contract type: Full time
Progress School is recruiting for a Teaching Assistant to join our Education team now!

We are looking for versatile, resilient and committed Teaching Assistants, who can adapt their practice wherever necessary to support across all key stages. The successful candidate will work alongside the class teacher, assisting the children with their work and supporting with pupil behaviour while establishing good relationships with pupils, acting as a role model and responding to individual needs.

Our Benefits Include

  • Exclusive access to reward and discount scheme
  • Comprehensive induction
  • Commitment to your ongoing training and career progression
  • Pension scheme
  • Paid for enhanced DBS
  • Wellbeing support
  • Cycle to work scheme and more!

Progress School is an independent specialist day and residential school for boys and girls aged 6 to 19 who have mild, moderate and severe autistic spectrum conditions and associated complex learning needs and challenging behaviour.

Our aim is to bring about the best in every young person to enable them to achieve positive experiences and progress according to their own individual abilities. The desired outcome is for young people to achieve success in accredited qualifications and to gain increased levels of independence to enable them to maximise their strengths, abilities and ambitions.

At Aspris Children’s Services, we are immensely proud of the career pathway and training we can offer you. As long as you can demonstrate the values needed for a role, transferable skills and life experience, we will give you all the training and support you need to progress!

The Successful Candidate Will Ideally Have Previous Experience Supporting In a Classroom Setting, Have a Level 2 Qualification (or Equivalent), However This Isn't Mandatory Providing You Possess The Following Characteristics

Resilience We support some of the most vulnerable children in society who have varying degrees of emotional behavioural difficulties, autism, ADHD and associated difficulties so there will be times where your resilience is challenged.

Communication Communicating with our young people is vital to understand their needs. Good teamwork and communication plays a key part in ensuring important information is relayed to other colleagues.

Organisation Strong organisational skills are important to support the class teacher and young people with educational activities

Caring Our young people require the best care we can offer. If you are a naturally caring and compassionate person, this is the role for you.

Attentive No two tasks will be the same so being attentive to understand them and identify areas where we can support is important.

Above all, we provide a supportive and collaborative working environment where you can flourish in your career and feel incredibly rewarded by helping those who need it most.

If you want a job for life, Aspris Children’s Services will help you get there.

Aspris is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All applicants must be willing to undergo safeguarding screening appropriate to the post, including checks with Disclosure & Barring Service and at least 2 references which cover the last 3 years; for all our services we will request references from where you have worked with either Children or Vulnerable Adults. Please be advised that references may be requested prior to interview for roles within our Schools.

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