Mental Health Support Assistant, Milton Keynes
Client:
Not specified
Location:
Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Job Category:
Not specified
EU work permit required:
Yes
Job Reference:
8e7ade423c37
Job Views:
6
Posted:
03.03.2025
Expiry Date:
17.04.2025
Job Description:
The Special Education Needs LSA (Learning Support Assistant) opportunity is ideal if you aspire to have a career focused on Counselling, Mental Health, Wellbeing, Criminal, Social or Youth Justice, or looking at elements of social care.
Can you demonstrate the value of education to your students while building substantial relationships and keeping them safe?
Job Title: SEN Mental Health Support Assistant
Location: Milton Keynes
Start date: June or September start depending on your notice period or university schedule.
Contract type: Long Term Contract, 5 days a week, 8:30 – 16:00
This role is suitable for a candidate looking to build on personal or already gained experiences in mental health and SEN. It’s vital you can qualify and disqualify roles for yourself.
This is also a good role for a graduate with objectives within Social Justice, Parole, Probation, and the Criminal Justice system, especially for any form of advocacy regarding mental health.
This is an outstanding opportunity for an individual with previous SEN experience or a Graduate with a keen interest in this area of work. It is the perfect position for someone in search of hands-on experience working with social, emotional mental health needs.
The Alternative Provision is situated in Milton Keynes supporting boys and girls, all with a range of additional needs associated with social, emotional mental health challenges. It’s a larger Primary and Secondary provision, with over 50 students, aged 5-19.
The school offers a restorative, therapeutic approach to education and behaviour management, engaging children in key personal skills, providing them skills for use in and out of school.
As a learning support assistant, you will be working in classes of 3-6 pupils with a staff to student ratio of 1:1.
What is required?
1. An Undergraduate Degree (preferable) and/or previous SEN experience, ideal for Criminology and Psychology Graduates.
2. Working with and observing how mental health and Autism, for example, affects girls compared to boys.
3. Good general education levels in English and Maths, with a grade of 5 and above desired.
4. A real focus on outside interests that diversify away from core subjects, building key and personal skills – Sport, Cooking, Coding, Dance, Hair Dressing, Photography.
5. Knowledge, keen interest, or understanding of the different types of learning and behavioural needs (SEMH elements of the provision).
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