Teaching Assistant

Role Responsibility

Purpose of the Job:

To provide administration support to managers and tutors, and educational support to groups and individual learners in a classroom, within the Skills provision.

Establish and maintain good working relationships with individual learners, groups, tutors and other internal teams.

Assist in preparing and maintaining the learning environment.

Promote learners’ well-being.

Support learners who may have language needs, a learning disability and/or difficulty and/or a sensory and/or physical disability.

Support the use of ICT as directed.

Attend internal training as directed.

Applicants will have or will be working towards a Learner Support Qualification. Education to at least GCSE or equivalent including written English and Maths.

This role is subject to holding a Full UK Driving Licence – The Council is committed to making reasonable adjustments so whilst this job requires the jobholder to drive your application will still be considered if you are unable to drive due to a disability.

This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Contact Details

For further information on the role, please contact:

Kulwant Jheeta - Curriculum Leader 

kulwant.jheeta@kent.gov.uk

03000 417368

About the Company

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KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county’s working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds, faiths and those with caring responsibilities, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.