Inclusion Assistant

Responsibilities

Main Duties

 Provide support for individual pupils, within a group context or individually, both inside and outside of the classroom to enable them to fully participate in a range of activities during the school day.

 Be proactive in matters relating to health and safety.

 Assist in the implementation of individual education programmes for individual pupils, link to the student’s IEP goals and contribute to the monitoring of their progress and attainment.

 Support the individual pupil/s in relation to their additional support needs e.g., academic, physical, emotional, and behavioural difficulties and help develop their social and communication skills.

 Assist home room and subject teachers with maintaining pupil records.

 Prepare necessary resources to assist the identified student to access or differentiate the curriculum in order to support learning.

 Promote independence, by teaching clear and meaningful strategies to the student.

 Support the aims of the school, comply with the requirements of health and safety, code of conduct and other relevant legislation and school policies.

 Set a good example in terms of dress, punctuality, and attendance.

 Attend training sessions and professionals’ meetings as required.

 Work with other professionals e.g. speech therapists, occupational therapists etc, as needed.

 Build a close working relationship with home room and subject teachers and communicate regularly and openly.

 Understand other duties from time to time as the principal / Head of Inclusion require

Specific Duties

 Adhere to guidelines of confidentiality – respecting that the Head of Inclusion, Home room and subject teachers are responsible for formal communications with parents.

 Academic assistance

 Giving individual instruction as prescribed by the teacher / providing group instruction where appropriate

 Demonstrating various instructional activities

 Monitoring work assigned by the teacher – checking and correcting individual students work in line with school policy, while in progress.

 Keeping individual pupil and peers on task

 Praising and reinforcing the achievements of pupils/reporting pupil progress to the teacher

 Prepare materials for the individual as needed, to scaffold their classroom learning.

 Supervising individual pupil/s in the classroom, specialist lessons and other locations

 Participating in development of behaviour policy / promoting pupils self-esteem and discipline misbehaviour in line with whole school policy

 Attend and subsequently deliver intervention for SaLT / OT / ABA therapy to help generalise and consolidate target skills, maximising the impact of therapy.

 Attend ECA/trips and visits.

 Experienced IA may be asked to mentor new IA – new IA may be asked to participate mentoring

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications SEN qualification

– Diploma

Minimum Experience

2 years SEN experience