Teaching Assistant

Teaching Assistant

Company : North Lakes

Location : Herdley Bank, Haltwhistle

Contract Type : Full time or part time hours available, permanent

Salary : £21,292.04 - 52-week £24,824.80 hourly rate £12.40

Specific Hours : 38.5

The Role

North Lakes Children's Services is a well-established local provider of residential care and education for boys aged 7-18. We improve the resilience, self-esteem and abilities of all the young people we work with.

Our school is now an Accredited SILVER Award Attachment and Trauma Sensitive School, and we gained our first Outstanding Ofsted inspection in 2014

As a Teaching Assistant you will be enhancing the learning of pupils who have a wide range of special educational and learning needs. You will also be supporting the teaching staff in enabling the pupils to gain independence, participate fully in the curriculum and the general life of the school. This role will be based at Herdley Bank School.

Duties will include :

• Supporting the pupils in 1 : 1, in groups or in classroom situations, lunch and break times, and unstructured / social times
• Accompanying pupils on organised school visits as appropriate

In conjunction with the SENDCo, to assist with the development of social skills and appropriate behav...