Classroom Assistant

Job description / Role

Job overview

Yasmina British Academy is an outstanding British 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, Yasmina British Academy is an exceptional place to work. It has an exciting, diverse, and progressive learning community that annually produces some of the very best I/GCSE and A Level results in the UAE. Our learning culture is underpinned by our core values of excellence, respect, passion, collaboration, and creativity allowing all students to thrive. Furthermore, the academy is extremely proud of its recent ADEK inspection, which rated Yasmina British Academy as 'Outstanding' in all six performance standards, putting it amongst the top schools in the UAE and Middle East.

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.

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.

Job purpose

Assist in the educational and social development of pupils under the direction and guidance of the SENCO, class teacher, key stage leader, or vice principal.

General responsibilities: All Yasmina British Academy staff

• Assist academy in achieving its overall vision and strategic intentions and to contribute to the achievement of relevant targets as set out in the academy's improvement plan and self-evaluation form.
• Comply with regulations pertaining to health and safety at work legislation and adhere to academy policies relating to safe working practice and equal opportunities regulations.
• Comply with the academy's performance management policy ensuring challenging annual targets are set and to fulfil the role of performance management reviewer if directed to do so by the principal.
• Engage in annual training linked to child protection, safeguarding and health and safety together with all training deemed appropriate for the purpose of academy improvement or performance management.
• Comply with the academy's staff dress code at all times including the wearing of photo ID or lanyard.
• Comply with the academy's computer acceptable use policy (AUP) at all times.
• Attend all staff briefings.
• Sign out and sign in at relevant academy reception if off site at any point during the normal working day.

Main duties

• Provide support for individual pupils or groups of pupils inside and outside the classroom to enable them to fully participate in a range of activities during the school day and to provide for their social, emotional and physical well-being.
• Be pro-active in matters relating to health and safety.
• Assist in the implementation of individual education programmes for individual pupils or groups of pupils and help monitor their progress.
• Support pupils with additional support needs, e.g. emotional and behavioural difficulties and help to develop their social skills.
• Assist class teachers with maintaining pupil records.
• Prepare and present displays of pupils' work.
• Support class teachers in photocopying and other tasks in order to support teaching.
• Support the aims of the school; comply with the requirements of health and safety, other relevant legislation and school policies.
• Set a good example in terms of dress, punctuality and attendance.
• Attend team and staff meetings as required.
• Work with other professionals, e.g. speech therapists, occupational therapists etc. as necessary.
• Undertake other duties from time to time as the principal requires.

Specific duties

• Academic assistance.
• Giving group instruction as prescribed by the teacher or providing individual instruction.
• Demonstrating various instructional activities.
• Monitoring work assigned by teacher - checking and correcting pupils' work while in progress.
• Keeping pupils on task.
• Praising and reinforcing achievements of pupils, reporting pupil progress to teacher.
• Reorganising materials at the end of the day.
• Checking attendance.
• Supervising pupils in the classrooms and other locations.
• Participating in development of behaviour policy, promoting pupils' self-esteem.
• Disciplining misbehaviour in line with the whole school policy.

Requirements

Minimum qualifications:

• To have a minimum secondary school certificate.

Minimum experience:

• At least two years' experience in school field.
• Preferable experience in the Islamic department.

Job specific knowledge & skills:

• Previous experience working with students whose first language is English.
• Passion for teaching and commitment to educating the whole child.
• A high level of professionalism and consideration of the well-being of children.
• Recent and consistent involvement in extra-curricular activities.
• Respect for all members of a school community, irrespective of position, gender, age and ethnic background.
• A positive and solution-focused attitude to working life.
• A clean enhanced disclosure and barring services check or police check.

What we offer

Aldar Academies are a family of world-class, child centered, and innovative schools based in the UAE. We educate over 34,000 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. Our future-focused learning model includes both students and staff and so we place a special emphasis on professional development, coaching and training.

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.

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.

The process

Closing date for applications 12pm, Friday 3rd October 2025 but we reserve the right to make an early appointment for experienced and suitably qualified applicants.

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.

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.