Personal Care Assistant
Location: Sheffield
Salary: £416.65 - £430.00 per week
Type: Temporary
Start Date: 27th January 2024 - December 2025
The Role
As a SEND Personal Care Assistant, you will be required to support the class teacher and other teaching assistants in the delivery of lessons, while also providing support and guidance to the students in their variety of learning needs and assistance with personal care/moving and handling with hoists.
Working with students with special educational needs is an extremely rewarding environment, though it can be challenging to understand the needs of each student. Therefore, this role benefits from consistency and continuity.
Ideally, you will have in-date moving and handling training or recent experience in this area.
The School
Vision for Education currently works with a school in the Sheffield area that caters to needs including but not limited to PMLD, MLD, ADHD, ADD, ASD, Global Delay, VI, HI, SEMH, and behaviors that challenge.
This school is passionate about providing the best quality of education, care, and specialist support for all their pupils, placing them at the center of everything they do. It is important that this aligns with your values as well.
Requirements
* Be reliable, flexible, and creative.
* Have experience supporting children and young adults with a range of learning needs and abilities – PMLD, MLD, ADHD, ADD, ASD, Global Delay, VI, HI, SEMH.
* Ideally have your own transport or close public transport links.
* Have a genuine desire to be part of a committed team, possess a nurturing and caring nature, and a genuine desire to make a difference.
* Moving and handling experience is highly desirable.
* Team Teach training is highly desirable, but we provide this training FREE OF CHARGE.
* Experience with both small groups and 1:1 is beneficial.
What We Offer
* Excellent daily rates paid using the PAYE system (subject to your scale rate, experience in the role, and qualifications, which will be discussed at the point of registration).
* Guaranteed pay scheme (subject to availability).
* Social and networking events.
* Pension contributions.
* CPD to help with your professional development.
* Access to a dedicated consultant.
About Us
We are a market-leading education supply agency committed to the development of young people. With branches across the country, we are an employer of choice for high-quality educators.
We do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, color, religion, disability, or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.
How to Apply
If you are an experienced SEND Care Assistant who can enthuse, motivate, and engage students and would like the challenge of working in a demanding and rewarding environment, then we want to hear from you.
Apply today via this website, or for more information about this role and other opportunities across Vision for Education, please contact our Sheffield Branch.
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