Please be advised that this position does not offer UK VISA SPONSORSHIP. Applicants must have their own legal right to work in the UK at the time of application which must allow full time working hours.

Vacancy Job Title; Lead Teaching Assistant

Vacancy Location; South Shields/Gateshead. Your Admin / Office time will be based from our Head Office on the Team Valley in Gateshead.

Salary / Rate of Pay; £20,225.00 (FTE = £27,000.00)

Contract type; Full Time, Term Time only (39 weeks of the year)

Number of hours available in total; 40 hours, term time only. This is built up of a combination of session delivery and admin hours at out Office in Team Valley Gateshead / Hybrid.

What are we looking for; Keyfort have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced teaching assistant seeking career advancement or, a recent graduate eager to embark on a rewarding career in the alternative education sector.

Job Role: As a Lead Teaching Assistant, you will play a key role in providing effective classroom support, mentoring other Teaching Assistants, and contributing to the development of a positive and inclusive learning environment. The role requires a proactive approach to support students with varying needs, ensuring that all pupils achieve their potential.

Essential Criteria;

• Driver with access to your own vehicle
• Level 3 Teaching Assistant Qualification or equivalent
• Proven experience as a teaching assistant, with demonstrable leadership skills
• Strong understanding of safeguarding policies and practices
• Ability to adapt and differentiate support for pupils with special educational needs (SEN).
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Desirable Criteria;

• Experience in a leadership or supervisory role
• Additional qualifications or training in SEN support
• Knowledge of effective behaviour management strategies
• Proficiency in performing personal care tasks, ensuring the well-being and comfort of the individual under your care.
• A naturally positive attitude that fosters a supportive and uplifting environment for those you work with.
• Proven ability to inspire and motivate the individual you support, empowering them to pursue their goals and aspirations with determination and enthusiasm.

Support Provision

Your working hours will be a combination of delivering support to the people we support, and office-based work on a rota basis over seven days.

· To deliver high quality, safe and person-centered support.

· To be part of a contingency plan covering absences and holiday cover on the package you manage.

· To safeguard the person, we support at all times and always act in their best interests.

· To develop a rapport and professional supportive relationship with the person we support and their next of kin.

· To identify achievable support and rehabilitation goals with the person we support.

· Manage and lead Support Workers to follow and implement care plans.

· To agree a set rota of support sessions with Commissioners, People we support and Support Workers, ensuring that funded support hours are delivered and not exceeded.

· To ensure the Case Manager, is kept up to date on support delivery, achievements, concerns or issues within the support package.

Line Management

• To act as line manager to Support Workers.
• To complete regular supervisions and observations of the staff being line managed.
• To provide support, guidance and training to staff being line managed, as required.
• To act as a role model and lead by example.
• To communicate clearly and effectively with staff teams at all times.
• To work alongside our Recruitment team to recruit Support Workers based on individual needs and preferences. To brief and train Support Workers in individuals’ specific needs.

This position is subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure.

What can KEYFORT offer you: As well as personal satisfaction in knowing you have been able to make a positive difference to the person’s life. We also offer the following to our support workers;

• A contract that works for you; permanent 40 hours per week
• Paid Annual Leave; 5.6 weeks annual leave
• Training, Mentoring and Shadowing programmes; inhouse with our own RGN, Occupational Therapist and trained Psychologists
• Double Pay for bank holiday working
• Paid Enhanced DBS check
• Colleague Referral Scheme – £200 incentive bonus (T&C’s apply)
• FlexEarn; which is a simple and safe way of accessing the wages you’ve already earned
• Blue Light discount card; giving you BIG discounts at major retailers
• Employee of the month scheme; winners receive a monetary voucher
• Recognition scheme with monetary rewards
• Mileage paid at 0.45pm per mile

KEYFORT Group Ltd are committed to Safeguarding and protecting Adults and Children.

We welcome applications from all areas of the community and welcome the opportunity to find out more about what you could bring to KEYFORT.

If you do not receive a communication from KEYFORT within 14 days, following your application submission, then on this occasion you have not been successful in our search requirements for this particular role.