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.

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 programs 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 behavioral 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 misbehavior in line with whole school policy
 Attend and subsequently deliver intervention for Salts / OT / ABA therapy to help generalize and consolidate target skills, maximizing 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