Inclusion Assistant
Job Description
<strong>Job Description<br><br></strong>Aldar Education are currently seeking an outstanding <strong> Inclusion Assistant </strong> for Al Majd Charter School in Abu Dhabi commencing <strong>AY 2023/2024.<br><br></strong><strong> Al Majd Charter School </strong> is an American Curriculum school in the beautiful city of Abu Dhabi. With our globally recognised and admired curriculum, dedicated and passionate practitioners and outstanding teaching and learning, Al Majd Charter School is a great place to work. It has an exciting, diverse, and progressive learning community that is committed to fulfilling the National Agenda for our Emirati students. Our learning culture is under pinned by our mission statement, Excite, Challenge, empower allowing all students to thrive.<br><br>This is an exciting opportunity to join the highly successful Aldar family of schools and to help shape the future of Abu Dhabi’s leading school group.<br><br>The successful candidates will be closely aligned with our core values and ethos and possess a genuine understanding and appreciation of the values of the region.<br><br><strong> Responsibilities: <br><br></strong><strong> Main Duties: <br></strong><ul><li> 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. </li><li> Be proactive in matters relating to health and safety. </li><li> Assist in the implementation of individual education programmes for individual pupils, link to the student’s IEP goals and contribute to the monitoring of their progress and attainment. </li><li> Support the individual pupil/s in relation to their additional support needs e.g., academic, physical, emotional, and behavioural difficulties and help develop their social and communication skills. </li><li> Assist home room and subject teachers with maintaining pupil records. </li><li> Prepare necessary resources to assist the identified student to access or differentiate the curriculum in order to support learning. </li><li> Promote independence, by teaching clear and meaningful strategies to the student. </li><li> Support the aims of the school, comply with the requirements of health and safety, code of conduct and other relevant legislation and school policies. </li><li> Set a good example in terms of dress, punctuality, and attendance. </li><li> Attend training sessions and professionals’ meetings as required. </li><li> Work with other professionals e.g. speech therapists, occupational therapists etc, as needed. </li><li> Build a close working relationship with home room and subject teachers and communicate regularly and openly. </li><li> Understand other duties from time to time as the principal / Head of Inclusion require <br><br></li></ul><strong> Specific Duties: <br></strong><ul><li> Adhere to guidelines of confidentiality – respecting that the Head of Inclusion, Home room and subject teachers are responsible for formal communications with parents. </li><li> Academic assistance </li><li> Giving individual instruction as prescribed by the teacher / providing group instruction where appropriate </li><li> Demonstrating various instructional activities </li><li> Monitoring work assigned by the teacher – checking and correcting individual students work in line with school policy, while in progress. </li><li> Keeping individual pupil and peers on task </li><li> Praising and reinforcing the achievements of pupils/reporting pupil progress to the teacher </li><li> Prepare materials for the individual as needed, to scaffold their classroom learning. </li><li> Supervising individual pupil/s in the classroom, specialist lessons and other locations </li><li> Participating in development of behaviour policy / promoting pupils self-esteem and discipline misbehaviour in line with whole school policy </li><li> Attend and subsequently deliver intervention for SaLT / OT / ABA therapy to help generalise and consolidate target skills, maximising the impact of therapy. </li><li> Attend ECA/trips and visits. </li><li> Experienced IA may be asked to mentor new IA – new IA may be asked to participate mentoring </li><li> Perform all other duties as requested by direct and dotted line reporting managers/ supervisors in a timely manner .<br><br></li></ul><strong> Job Specific Knowledge & Skills: <br></strong><ul><li> Fluent English communication skills, written and oral in order to deliver clear, proactive and effective two-way communication. </li><li> Good literacy skills and an excellent command of English and good numeracy skills </li><li> Flexibility, personal initiative, and skills in prioritisation of tasks, enthusiastic, motivated, resilient and patient. </li><li> Ability to work flexibly as a member of a team </li><li> IT skills would be desirable </li><li> Shows positivity when faced with change, embracing it fully </li><li> Collaboration and teamwork </li><li> Result driven. </li><li> Ability to create a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing </li><li> Ability to analyse information in a systematic manner to make informed decisions. </li><li> Acts in a socially responsible manner </li><li> Knowledge of child protection and safeguarding </li><li> A clean enhanced Disclosure and Barring Services check or police check. <br><br></li></ul><strong> Requirements: <br><br></strong>Minimum Qualifications:<br><ul><li> A minimum qualification of SEN diploma is required <br><br></li></ul>Minimum Experience :<br><ul><li> 2 years SEN experience. <br><br></li></ul><strong> WHAT WE OFFER: <br><br></strong>Aldar Academies are a family of world-class, child centred, and innovative schools based in the UAE. We educate over 25,000 students across our group of owned and managed schools and as we grow so does our need for highly skilled, inspirational, and dedicated school leaders. We offer an attractive remuneration package including medical cover, flights, housing, and free child school places. Our future-focused learning model includes both students and staff and so we place a special emphasis on professional development, coaching and training.<br><br>Successful candidates will have access to a wide network of professionals and opportunities to both lead and contribute to training others as well as developing themselves.<br><br>Aldar Academies are keen to hear from like-minded, forward thinking school leaders who would welcome the challenge and opportunities that we have to offer.<br><br>This job description is not all inclusive. Aldar Education reserves the right to amend this job description at any time. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment. We are also mindful of our national development strategy and encourage UAE Nationals in their application at our company.<br><br>Aldar Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. Offers of appointment are subject to satisfactory references and police clearance.
