• Job Description

  Req#: REF3696U

  Company Description

  Catch22 is a social business, a not for profit business with a social mission. For over 200 years we have designed and delivered services that build resilience and aspiration in people and communities. Our 1600 colleagues work at every stage of the social welfare cycle, supporting 44,000 individuals from cradle to career. Today we deliver alternative education, apprenticeships and employability programmes, justice and rehabilitation services (in prisons and in the community), gangs intervention work, emotional wellbeing and substance misuse, and children’s social care programmes.

  Catch22 include is an alternative education provider for young people, over 700 vulnerable young people with challenging behaviours are supported through independent alternative education schools or via a range of tailored support programmes delivered in school or off-site. Include schools provide an alternative to mainstream schooling, whereby multiple barriers to learning have previously affected engagement and access to education.

  Catch22 Include Wales is registered as a Special Independent School. It provides full-time education for young people who have been excluded from their previous school or pupil referral unit, or who need additional support to what is offered by a mainstream setting.

  Job Description

  Do you have a passion for developing the minds of young people? Are you a good role model who believes that with enough work and commitment anything is possible? Maybe you've always wanted to teach but don't have the qualifications or a way into teaching? If you have answered 'yes' to any of the above, you could be the Teaching Assistant we are looking for.

  We are looking for an ambitious Teaching Assistant who can work in partnership with our Teacher to motivate and inspire a group of learners who have not had good experiences of Education up until now. We want someone who can support learners to build up their confidence and self-belief. Someone who can help our students to see that they are worth something and that they have a future. Someone who can help our students see why the subjects we are teaching them are valuable and worthwhile.

  As a Teaching Assistant your responsibilities will include:

  • Working with individual or groups of children, assisting in ensuring pupils are kept on task and complete activities set by teachers.
  • Dealing with behavioural and special needs issues in conjunction with the teacher
  • Delivery of ALN interventions
  • Helping to implement lesson plans, aims and contents with the teacher
  • Providing feedback to pupils
  • Taking charge of small groups of pupils for defined activities
  • Supporting and working with the teacher in testing/assessment

  Qualifications

  • Trained to at least to NVQ2 standard
  • Basic literacy and numeracy skills

  Essential Skills and Experience

  • Experience of teaching children with EAL, ALN, Speech and language difficulties and other complex needs
  • Knowledge of the statutory requirements of equal opportunities, discrimination, health and safety, ALN & safeguarding of children
  • High expectations of pupils’ behaviour and clear strategies for working with challenging pupils
  • Ability to motivate and encourage children appropriately
  • Ability to work independently, supported by the teacher, with groups of or individual pupils

  Please see the full job description for more details on the requirements for this job.

  Additional Information

  Salary: £25,000 - £26,650 Pro Rata

  This role is for 39 working weeks per annum and 30 hours per week.

  Catch22 is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post. Any offer of employment will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.

  See the benefits of working for Catch22 here.

  Unless otherwise stated, interviews will be arranged as suitable candidates are identified, so early application is strongly advised.

  At Catch22 we value equality, diversity and inclusion. We are wholeheartedly committed to the principle of equality of opportunity, both as an employer and as a provider of services. Diversity and Inclusion is part of what we do every day, working to deliver our vision to build a strong society where everyone has good people around them, a purpose, and a good place to live.

  Catch22 is committed to rigorous safeguarding and safer recruitment practices; ensuring that every individual within the organisation has been safely and appropriately checked.

  Please note, we will conduct an online search as part of our due dilligence checks for successful candidate(s). This will involve a search of all publicly available information online and in social media.

• About the company

  Catch22 is a social business. We design and deliver services that build resilience and aspiration in people and communities across the UK.

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