Position: Advanced Teaching and Learning Assistant (Functional Skills English Lead)
Location: Hounslow

Overview

Are you passionate about supporting Autistic young people to achieve their very best? Do you want to play a vital role in shaping the futures of learners as they take their next steps in life, study and employment? If so, The Rise Sixth Form is looking for an enthusiastic and dedicated Advanced Teaching and Learning Assistant to join our team. As an Advanced Teaching and Learning Assistant, you will play a key role in delivering English Functional skills by planning, teaching, and organising resources.

Working as part of our Sixth Form team, you will also provide both teaching and positive behaviour support (PBS), enabling autistic young people to overcome barriers to learning, grow in confidence and reach their aspirations.

Experience

Bespoke

Experience:

Experience of planning or supporting work experience or educational trips and visits.

Key Responsibilities

Plan, deliver and organise resources for a subject area or pastoral responsibility, with support from the Head of Sixth Form.
Deliver high-quality support in literacy, numeracy and across the curriculum.
Use your specialist knowledge to ensure pupils receive tailored and meaningful learning opportunities.
Provide classroom cover and support for colleagues when required.
Assist with planning and delivering personalised support plans.
Support pupils with UCAS applications, apprenticeship paperwork and personal statements.
Monitor, evaluate and record pupil progress, ensuring accurate use of assessment tools.
Liaise effectively with parents, carers, staff and our transdisciplinary team.
Attend to students' personal, social, health and welfare needs as required.
Lead on curriculum resources, activities and displays within your area of responsibility.
Contribute to Sixth Form events including induction, results day, parents' evenings, and work-related learning opportunities.

What We're Looking For

Committed and aspirational - with the highest expectations for our learners' achievement and behaviour.
Proactive and reflective - eager to take responsibility for professional development and embrace evidence-based practice.
Team-focused - able to work collaboratively with colleagues, parents and external professionals.
Skilled and knowledgeable - with experience in supporting autistic young people and removing barriers to learning.
Organised and resourceful - confident in planning lessons, managing data and supporting accreditation pathways.

Why Join The Rise Sixth Form?

Be part of a specialist setting that truly values holistic learning and personal development.
Work in a collaborative, transdisciplinary environment.
Access to ongoing CPD and professional development opportunities.
Play a meaningful role in preparing autistic young people for their next stage of life, learning or work.

Ambitious about Autism is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check. The school's values are Be Proud, Be Resilient and Be Kind.

About The Rise School

Our vision at The Rise School is to create a vibrant learning community and be an exemplar school of best practice for children with autism and social communication needs by enabling our pupils to access a broad age-related curriculum. The Rise School is a thriving special school based in Feltham, west London educating autistic pupils aged four to 18. It was set up by the Ambitious about Autism Schools Trust in 2014.

The Rise School offers pupils the best of both worlds: special needs provision combined with a curriculum guided by, and reaching beyond, the national curriculum. Located on the same campus as the Tudor Park Education Trust, the Rise School enables pupils to access learning and social opportunities alongside their mainstream peers, whilst receiving the specialist support they need.

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