Inclusion Assistant

Provide early intervention to promote the educational and social development of identified pupil/s under the direction and guidance of the Head of Inclusion and Class Teacher.

Minimum Qualifications SEN qualification
– Diploma

Minimum Experience
2 years SEN experience

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