As a key member of the Learning Support department, you will work under the guidance of the SENCO and the Head of Inclusion, providing targeted support within our mainstream classrooms as well as contributing to the success of our Special Resources Provision (SRP). You will be part of a collaborative team focused on ensuring that every student has the tools they need to thrive in a secondary environment.

You will be a champion for our culture of high expectations, working directly with students to foster independence and resilience. By helping to adapt learning materials and implementing specific interventions, you will be the driving force behind removing academic and non-academic barriers to learning. Your role is central to our values-based ethos: ensuring that no student is left behind, regardless of their starting point or specific needs.

Acting as a consistent and supportive presence, you will help maintain the vital link between school and home. You will build positive, professional relationships with students and their families, ensuring that our support is not only effective but also compassionate and student centred.

Responsibilities:

The following areas of responsibility are for guidance only; they are neither comprehensive nor exhaustive:

- To have an understanding of students’ EHCPs and strategies to support them to achieve their goals.

- To establish constructive relationships with students and interact with them according to individual needs.

-       - To set challenging and demanding expectations and promote self-esteem and independence.

-       - To pro-actively encourage students to interact with others and engage in activities.

-       - To provide feedback to students in relation to their progress and achievement.

-       - Under the direction of the SENCO, work with identified students on developing their key academic and social skills to be able to access the curriculum.

-       - To use and record relevant data to highlight the impact of interventions on students learning.

-       - To use strategies, in liaison with teaching colleagues to support students achieve their learning goals.

-       - To assist with the planning of appropriate learning activities that allow the student to access the curriculum.

-       - To organise and run a range of extracurricular clubs/groups at lunchtime to support the development of social and academic needs.

Key Tasks

- To liaise with the class teacher to ensure a full understanding of leaning being delivered and the needs of the teaching group.

- To assist the teacher in planning and adapting the resources to meet the needs of identified students in the lesson.

-       - To support the class teacher in the delivery of the learning by working with students to develop their resilience and independent skills in oral and written work; individual, small group or where directed withdrawal from the lesson.

-       - To use department (Google) systems and documents to effectively feedback to teachers regularly on students’ needs and understanding in the lessons you support.

-       - To be prepared to support some children working at a Key Stage 1 or Key Stage 2 level of development.

Communication

- Liaise with parents and carers as directed regarding the learning of identified students.

Professional development

- To attend all directed time meetings as identified by the SENCO.

-       - To actively engage with the performance appraisal process.

Other specific responsibilities will be negotiated and agreed with the successful applicant.

This job description should be read in conjunction with the Statutory Requirements contained in the current version of the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions document and the expectations detailed in the Teachers’ Standards document 2012.

The law requires this position to have an enhanced criminal background check.  This is to protect children and vulnerable adults and to safeguard positions of trust. The position is therefore exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act.  If your application is taken further you will be asked to declare details of any criminal record, even convictions that are ‘spent’ according to the act.  If you are offered the post this information will be checked against Criminal Records Bureau files.  You will be provided with full information at each stage.

Please note that The Priory School, Hitchin operates a no smoking policy.

The postholder is required to perform the duties above. They will be responsible to the Headteacher and will demonstrate a genuine commitment to our Equalities Policy and the wellbeing of all students.

This job description will be reviewed annually and will form the basis of the Performance Management Review (PAR) procedure.  Any issues relating to the review of this job description should be brought to the Headteacher’s notice by the postholder through the senior line manager. The postholder will undertake the specific responsibilities as outlined above in order to fulfil our statutory requirements, school aims, policies and targets.

The post holder will be responsible to the Headteacher, through their line manager. They will demonstrate a commitment to the school’s equal opportunities policy..