Secondary Teaching Assistant
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Are you a Teaching Assistant with experience supporting children with Special Educational Needs?
Do you have a passion for helping students fulfil their potential?
We are seeking an enthusiastic, creative and dedicated Teaching Assistant to join our current hard-working staff. You may find yourself working on a 1:1 basis, or with small groups of pupils within the school. You will be supported by class teacher who will prepare work for you in accordance within pupils needs and targets and provide feedback on pupils progress.
The ideal candidate will have some experience of working with SEN in or out of a school and will have outstanding inter-personal skills. You will need to be patient and sensitive with the ability to encourage and motivate children as well as being able to work effectively in a team. Experience of the current curriculum will be advantageous, but not essential.. We can offer additional training through our CPD Academy such as Team Teaching and working with Autism. You will need to take into account children's learning styles and what motivates them to stay engaged, using positive behaviour management.
Our ideal SEN Teaching Assistant will ;
- have experience supporting children within education
- be patient, creative and fun
- be able to motivate children who are disengaged from their learning
- be able to support in core curriculum areas
- have GCSE English/Maths (A-C)
Teaching Personnel can offer;
- a dedicated, specialist consultant working for you
- full time, part time & day to day supply work
- work with schools who work exclusively with Teaching Personnel
- unrivalled CPD opportunities including Team Teach
- support at interview stage with our experienced staff and interview guides
- 20 years experience within Educational Recruitment working in partnership with a large number of Primary, Secondary and SEN Schools
- £50 refer a friend scheme
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