Inclusion Assistant - Abdulla Bin Otaiba Charter School - Immediate Start

Role Overview

Inclusion Assistant at Abdulla Bin Otaiba Charter School, operated by Aldar Education, in Abu Dhabi. Immediate start available.

Company Overview

Abdulla Bin Otaiba Charter School (ABO) follows the US Curriculum and serves over 1,500 students from KG2 to Grade 5. The school is collaborative and student-centred, with a commitment to staff development, stakeholder engagement, and continuous evolution of practice. Core values are Respect, Collaboration, Passion, Integrity and Excellence, with the ethos "Aspire, Believe, Achieve." ABO is part of Aldar Education, a leading school group in Abu Dhabi.

Role Purpose

To provide targeted support for students with additional needs, enabling them to fully participate in classroom and school activities, progress toward their individual education plan goals, and develop independence and social communication skills.

Key Responsibilities

Student Support & Inclusion

• Provide support to individual pupils within group and one-to-one contexts, both inside and outside the classroom, to enable full participation in school activities.
• Support individual pupils in relation to their additional support needs including academic, physical, emotional, and behavioural difficulties.
• Help develop students' social and communication skills.
• Promote independence by teaching clear and meaningful strategies to students.
• Supervise individual pupils in the classroom, specialist lessons, and other locations.

Academic Assistance & Learning

• Assist in the implementation of individual education programmes for students and link to IEP goals.
• Contribute to the monitoring of student progress and attainment.
• Provide individual instruction as prescribed by the teacher or group instruction where appropriate.
• Demonstrate various instructional activities.
• Monitor work assigned by the teacher, checking and correcting individual student work in progress in line with school policy.
• Keep individual pupils and peers on task.
• Prepare materials and resources for individual students to scaffold classroom learning and differentiate curriculum access.
• Praise and reinforce pupil achievements and report pupil progress to the teacher.

Therapeutic & Intervention Support

• Attend and deliver intervention for Speech and Language Therapy, Occupational Therapy, and Applied Behaviour Analysis therapy to help generalise and consolidate target skills and maximise therapy impact.
• Work with other professionals such as speech therapists and occupational therapists as needed.

Behaviour & Wellbeing

• Participate in development of behaviour policy and promote pupil self-esteem.
• Discipline misbehaviour in line with whole school policy.

Collaboration & Communication

• Build close working relationships with home room and subject teachers and communicate regularly and openly.
• Adhere to guidelines of confidentiality, respecting that the Head of Inclusion, home room and subject teachers are responsible for formal communications with parents.
• Attend training sessions and professional meetings as required.

Records & Administration

• Assist home room and subject teachers with maintaining pupil records.

School Operations

• Be proactive in matters relating to health and safety.
• Support the aims of the school and comply with requirements of health and safety, code of conduct, and other relevant legislation and school policies.
• Set a good example in terms of dress, punctuality, and attendance.
• Attend extracurricular activities, trips, and visits.
• Undertake other duties as required by the Principal or Head of Inclusion.
• Mentor new Inclusion Assistants if experienced, or participate in mentoring if new to the role.

Qualifications & Experience

• SEN qualification – Diploma.
• Minimum 2 years SEN Teaching experience.

Skills & Competencies

• English language skills or fluency in the language applied in the school curriculum.