Herne Bay Infant School One to One Teaching Assistant Person Specification
Essential : Experience of working with children
Desirable: Experience of working in an educational setting
Personal Education, Qualifications and Qualities
Qualifications / training relevant to the TA role, including a good standard of numeracy and literacy.
Providing for the children’s needs:
- Ability to relate well to children and establish good working relationships
- Ability to manage challenging behaviour
- Awareness of strategies for managing children with ASD, ADHD
- Ability to utilise strategies to support pupils in making progress in their learning
- Good understanding of child development and learning processes
- Ability to use ICT effectively to support learning
- Ability to support or lead groups of children in a variety of learning activities, including those with special needs, ensuring their safety, access and progress
- Ability to support the class teacher in the assessment of children’s progress through effective record keeping, marking and feedback
- Ability to adapt teachers plans to individual needs of child
- Ability to support the class teacher in the planning and evaluation of lessons/group work
Personal development and Wider Contribution
- Ability to liaise with Senco, Class Teacher, other agencies and parents
- Experience of organising child’s work into short task, reward, task system
- Ability to set up and carry out simple reward systems
- Act as role model
- Make a wider contribution to the life of the school in order to enhance learning opportunities for pupils
- Constantly improve own practice through self-evaluation and learning from others
- General awareness of inclusion, especially within a school setting
- Understand classroom roles and responsibilities and your own position within these
- Ability to apply behaviour management policies and strategies which contribute to a purposeful learning environment
- Awareness of procedures relating to child protection, health, safety and security, confidentiality and data protection
- Use own initiative and work independently
- Excellent communication skills with adults and children, verbally and in writing Motivate, inspire and have high expectations of pupils
- Creative approach to problem solving
- Work calmly under pressure
- Committed to personal and professional development
- Awareness of, and commitment to, equalities issues
- Work effectively as part of a team and contribute to group thinking, planning etc.
- Effective time management
- To be flexible
- Ability to follow instructions accurately