Teaching Assistant

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Teaching Assistant - £20,906.25 per year, 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, Term Time Only

Avonside School, Bristol BS4 5PS

Our New Acorn School, Avonside School in Bristol, will have capacity for 72 pupils and is due to open August 2025. The school will be a co-educational provision for pupils with complex needs including SEMH.

We are really proud to say that in 2024, Outcomes First Group were officially certified as a 'Great Place to Work' for the fifth year running.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the class teacher/tutor in order to:
  • Ensure the delivery of a high-quality education for all students
  • Ensure that all relevant education policies and procedures are implemented in full
  • Organise the classroom, its resources, student groupings and displays to provide a stimulating learning situation appropriate for students with autistic spectrum disorder
  • write, update, implement and evaluate documentation relating to the individual student
• Provide relevant and appropriate support to students
• Promote the physical, educational, and moral development of the students
• Ensure that the available equipment and resources are used, stored and maintained efficiently
• Work collaboratively with the class teacher and/or class tutor to adequately plan to ensure the safety of students, in line with risk assessments, while both on and off site
• Produce appropriate and effective resources/teaching aids at the request of, and following a brief provided by, the class teacher and/or tutor
• Contribute as a member of the school's multi-professional team, ensuring good working relationships with colleagues

Exceptional Rewards Package

• We're taking part in a trial of the 4-Day Working Week meaning you could be working one day less a week!
• Refer a Friend and earn £1000.00!
• Family Growth Support - inclusive benefits package covering enhanced maternity and paternity leave, along with paid fertility treatment support.
• A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits including Life Assurance, Cycle to Work Schemes, Electric Car Purchase Scheme and Critical illness cover
• Hundreds of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
• "Your Wellbeing Matters" - access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks
• Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions

Why join Acorn Education?

Acorn Education is the UK's leading independent provider of specialist education. As part of Outcomes First Group, we are leading our sector in setting and delivering new approaches that provide measurable outcomes for those in our care.

And that's not all, we place the outcomes of the pupils in our services at the heart of everything we do, so you'll wake every day in the knowledge that your role will have a significant positive impact on the lives of others.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils. All applicants will be subject to social media checks and successful applicants to a fully enhanced DBS.

4DWW will be rolled out within our school when we have a full complement of staff so there's never been a more exciting time to join us. Subject to successful completion of probation, not a contractual benefit.

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