Alternative Provision Classroom Support VOLUNTEER – Brighton

About the role

Our classroom support volunteers play a vital and varied role within our centres. Primarily, they support our young people, ensuring their safety and access to learning activities through building and nurturing constructive relationships and promoting their inclusion, acceptance and self-esteem. We value our students’ differences and interact with them based on their individual needs to help them to learn, develop and achieve specific learning goals. Our volunteer teaching assistants support this by implementing specific strategies based on what has been agreed by our teaching and senior staff, to ensure all our students have equal access to opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Support our young people by building and nurturing constructive relationships and promoting their inclusion, acceptance and self-esteem.
• Assist with lessons, monitor and record progress, provide feedback, supervise students, provide 1:1 support and assist with the planning of learning activities.

Requirements

• Previous experience of working in a classroom environment or another alternative provision.
• The ability to work effectively with others as a competent team member and the confidence to work alone when required.
• Good time management and organisational skills.
• The ability to relate well to young people with a range of educational needs.
• An open-minded, non-judgemental and empathetic approach to young people from a wide range of backgrounds and situations.
• Experience in SEN.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• A good knowledge of health & safety.
• A knowledge of numeracy and literacy, preferably with a confident level of computer literacy.

Qualifications

Not specified.

Skills

• Time management and organisational skills.
• Interpersonal and communication skills.
• Knowledge of health & safety.
• Knowledge of numeracy and literacy.
• Computer literacy.

Benefits

To ensure our volunteers feel happy and confident in their roles, we provide all necessary training as well as on-going support and feedback from a dedicated member of staff.

Pay

Volunteer position.

Schedule

Flexible.