Job role includes

Principal Duties:

Help to keep children safe by:

• Preparing and maintaining a safe and hygienic environment
• Dealing with accidents, emergencies and illnesses
• Supporting the safeguarding of children
• Encouraging children’s positive behaviour

Provide support for learning activities by:

• Supporting the teacher in planning learning activities
• Supporting the delivery of learning activities
• Supporting the teacher in the evaluation of learning activities

Support the children’s development by:

• Contributing to the development of children physically, emotionally and socially and the associated skills
• Contributing to children’s communication and the intellectual development

Contribute to positive relationships by effectively:

• Interacting with and responding to children and adults
• Communicating with children and adults

Provide effective support for your colleagues by:

• Maintaining working relationships with colleagues
• Developing your effectiveness in a support role

Support children’s play and learning by:

• Encouraging and supporting children to be creative in physical play
• Offering a range of play opportunities to children
• Supporting children’s rights and choices in play

Support a child with disabilities or special educational needs by:

• Providing care and encouragement and supporting personal hygiene needs
• Providing support to help the child to participate in activities and experiences

Contribute to the moving and handling of children with mobility difficulties by:

• Preparing children, environments and equipment for moving and handling
• Enabling children to move from one position to another

Provide displays by:

• Setting up, maintaining and dismantling displays

Promote behaviour by:

• Implementing agreed behaviour management strategies
• Supporting pupils in taking responsibility for their learning and behaviour

Secondary Duties:

• To participate in Council programmes of in-service training as a trainee and when required as a trainer facilitator
• To undertake such other duties and responsibilities of an equivalent nature as may be determined from time to time by the Service Head (or nominated representative) in consultation with the postholder (and if they so wish, with their Trade Union representative)