SEN Teaching Assistant

Are you passionate about caring for young people? Have you got experience working with children with Special educational needs? Are you looking to work in a school environment?

Location: Birmingham

Pay: £80-87 a day (£12.30 - £13.38 a hour)

Role: SEN Teaching assistant

Teaching Personnel are working alongside mainstream primary school to support children with SEN and challenging behaviours. 

We are currently recruiting for Teaching Assistants who are experienced working with SEMH, ASD and other special educational needs. This role will include working closely, usually on a 1:1 basis, with the specific students supporting their educational, social and emotional needs. 

This role will suit someone with prior school based experience. It may also suit someone from a health and social care background as well as those with experience of challenging behaviour settings, psychology graduates, 1:1 support, sports coaches, and mentoring backgrounds.

The ideal candidate:

-work effectively as part of a team within the classroom, ensuring the children are looked after and learning from the content delivered

-experience supporting children with SEN and their associated learning difficulties

-understand the social, emotional, and academic needs of those with SEN

-commitment to the building and maintaining positive relationships

-a warm and friendly positive approach in the classroom

-be caring, patient and understanding

Teaching Personnel offer a range of vacancies, from short-term to long-term, part-time and full-time. If you are keen to start a new role working with individuals with Special Educational Needs please apply NOW, and one of our consultants will be in contact shortly.

All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role. Please see the FAQ’s on the Teaching Personnel website for details.
All pay rates quoted will be inclusive of 12.07% statutory holiday pay. This advert is for a temporary position. In some cases, the option to make this role permanent may become available at a later date.
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