Inclusion Assistant - Immediate Start

About the role

Aldar Education is recruiting an Inclusion Assistant for Al Rayana Charter School in Abu Dhabi, an American curriculum mixed-gender primary school. The position starts immediately and supports pupils with additional needs so they can take part fully in school activities.

Key responsibilities

• Support individual pupils, in groups or alone, inside and outside the classroom
• Help implement individual education programmes linked to IEP goals and monitor progress
• Support pupils' additional needs (academic, physical, emotional, behavioural) and help build social and communication skills
• Assist teachers with pupil records and prepare differentiated resources
• Teach strategies that promote independence
• Follow health and safety, code of conduct and school policies; set a good example in dress, punctuality and attendance
• Take part in training, professional meetings and work with professionals such as speech and occupational therapists
• Keep confidential information private; teachers handle formal contact with parents
• Give individual or group instruction, demonstrate activities, check and correct work, keep pupils on task and reinforce achievements
• Prepare materials to scaffold learning, supervise pupils in class and specialist lessons, and help generalise skills from SaLT, OT and ABA therapy
• Take part in ECA, trips and visits; experienced assistants may mentor new ones

Required profile

• Diploma in SEN
• 2 years of SEN experience