Description
Job Title: ASD Teaching Assistant
Location: Salford
Start date: ASAP
Hours: Full time - 8.30am - 3.30pm
Day Rate: Starting at £90 per day, subject to experience and qualifications
Axcis has an amazing opportunity to join us as a Teaching Assistant in a ASD specialist provision, supporting students aged 11-19. This school is a welcoming, joyful place where pupils flourish. They are cared for by staff who know and respond to pupils’ special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) well. This helps pupils, and students in the sixth form, to feel understood, nurtured and safe.
To be successful in the role you’ll need:
• Experience within a care or education workplace setting (not essential but desirable)
• First-hand experience of either complex needs, learning disabilities, sensory impairments or autistic spectrum conditions.
• Experience of supporting either children or young people with challenging behaviour
• Enthusiasm, determination and resilience
• Empathy and self-awareness
• Excellent communication skills for effective interaction with students, parents, and colleagues
Teaching Assistant Role Outline:
• Assisting the teacher with planning and preparation of resources and programmes including differentiation for the individual needs of learners in the class/group
• Actively support all students in the full range of curriculum activities across the college/school including but not limited to
• Working with students with Autism, multi-sensory impairments, physical disabilities, severe learning difficulties and those with non-verbal communication needs, to enhance their communication skills, social skills, ability to think flexibly and to problem-solve.
• Supporting students with challenging behaviour, personal care and supporting those with physical disabilities. Some students may require support from mobility aids and disability aids including hoists and wheelchairs.
NB: Candidates must have a *CHILD & ADULT DBS* or be willing to pay for one with Axcis. For this role we cannot accept a *CHILD ONLY DBS*
Location: Salford
Start date: ASAP
Hours: Full time - 8.30am - 3.30pm
Day Rate: Starting at £90 per day, subject to experience and qualifications
Axcis has an amazing opportunity to join us as a Teaching Assistant in a ASD specialist provision, supporting students aged 11-19. This school is a welcoming, joyful place where pupils flourish. They are cared for by staff who know and respond to pupils’ special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) well. This helps pupils, and students in the sixth form, to feel understood, nurtured and safe.
To be successful in the role you’ll need:
• Experience within a care or education workplace setting (not essential but desirable)
• First-hand experience of either complex needs, learning disabilities, sensory impairments or autistic spectrum conditions.
• Experience of supporting either children or young people with challenging behaviour
• Enthusiasm, determination and resilience
• Empathy and self-awareness
• Excellent communication skills for effective interaction with students, parents, and colleagues
Teaching Assistant Role Outline:
• Assisting the teacher with planning and preparation of resources and programmes including differentiation for the individual needs of learners in the class/group
• Actively support all students in the full range of curriculum activities across the college/school including but not limited to
• Working with students with Autism, multi-sensory impairments, physical disabilities, severe learning difficulties and those with non-verbal communication needs, to enhance their communication skills, social skills, ability to think flexibly and to problem-solve.
• Supporting students with challenging behaviour, personal care and supporting those with physical disabilities. Some students may require support from mobility aids and disability aids including hoists and wheelchairs.
NB: Candidates must have a *CHILD & ADULT DBS* or be willing to pay for one with Axcis. For this role we cannot accept a *CHILD ONLY DBS*