Role: SEN Teaching Assistant
Contract: Full time, temporary (opportunity to become permanent)
Salary: Starting at £14.45 per hour
Are you a resilient, passionate and dedicated individual looking to make a difference in the lives of young people? Do you have experience supporting people with additional needs? Maybe you’re an experienced care or support worker seeking your next challenge?
Here at Long-Term Teachers, we are proud to partner with a fantastic all-through special school that supports students with a range of complex learning difficulties and associated social, emotional and mental health challenges. They are seeking a hard-working, enthusiastic and passionate teaching assistant to join their close-knit team.
About the role:
The role of a teaching assistant is to support students both academically and socially-emotionally. You will provide general classroom support, including one-to-one assistance and small group interventions as needed. As a teacher assistant, you will also help the classroom teacher in lesson planning, resource gathering and activity set-up.
When working with young people, you have a duty to safeguard and ensure the safety and wellbeing of all students. Due to the nature of the students, there may be incidents where you encounter challenging behaviour. Therefore, you must be confident in managing these scenarios in a calm and patient manner.
About You:
* Experience: Previous experience working with children in the UK, whether in early years, primary or secondary education.
* SEN knowledge: A strong understanding of special educational needs and strategies to support young people
* Personal qualities: Resilient, adaptable, hardworking and possess a good sense of humour.
* Professional growth: A willingness to develop your knowledge and skills further.
* Flexibility: Ability to adapt to changing plans at short notice
This role is perfect for university students, experienced TA’s looking for a new challenge or anyone wanting to work around their current schedule. You will be working term time only, Monday - Friday, between the hours of 08:30 - 15:30. If you would like to discuss this role further, please get in touch!
Working with Long-term Teachers:
We are an independent agency working with Nurseries, Primary, Secondary and Special Schools.
LTT was founded with the aim of creating a genuine, transparent and straightforward service to help candidates secure their next role. We place a huge emphasis on delivering an exceptional service where you will be supported, listened to and valued throughout.
Your dedicated consultant will invest time to understand your experience, skill-set and what your ideal role looks like. You will have frequent updates with your progress through compliance, applications for specific roles as well as receiving additional information on roles which we feel may be of interest to you.
We are proud members of the REC and we have the highest standard of compliance. Working with us means you will get the very best support and guidance through the clearance process from your own specific point of contact from our in-house compliance team.
In addition you will receive:
* Guarantee Pay Scheme opportunities
* Permanent job roles
* Support and advice during the clearance and onboarding process
* Working to Agency Workers Regulations
* Interview preparation, advice and support
* Statutory employment rights, such as; sick pay, holiday pay, maternity and paternity pay