Special Educational Needs Primary Teaching Assistant Role
Job Type: Temporary/full time
Pay: £83.34 a day
Location: Swansea
Apply by: 29th April 2024
Teaching personnel are hiring teaching assistants to work with primary age pupils who have additional learning needs. Teaching assistants play an important role in the education and development of children. We are looking for teaching assistants who are passionate about giving children an extra hand throughout the school day.
Teaching assistant role:
Your role as a teaching assistant is to support the pupils throughout their school day with a variety of needs, some cases can involve personal care, you will be required to support pupils with a variety of daily needs and help them tackle the challenges a school day can bring. You will work with pupils in small groups and on a 1:1 basis. You will be required to encourage independence for daily tasks like putting coats on, you will likely witness/experience aggressive behaviour, we can offer a heavily discounted team teach course to assist with this.
Our teaching assistants will play an active role in assisting the class teacher in delivering challenging and motivating lessons to aid the development of pupils, although you will need to use creative ways to help adapt activities depending on the learners needs.
What do you need to be a Teaching Assistant:
- Valid enhanced DBS check (We can provide support in obtaining one)
- Registration with the EWC
- Positive approach to working with children.
- Patience to support pupils.
- Initiative to get involved and support throughout the day.
- Reactive to any situation to avoid them escalating further.
- Caring personality and ability to build a positive professional relationship with pupils.
Why Teaching Personnel?
Competitive pay rates in line with the Welsh government framework ensuring you get paid fairly!
Weekly pay, processed by our payroll team using PAYE.
Regular check ins – We run everything past you to ensure we find that perfect school to staff partnership.
Refer a friend scheme (Earn £50 for every friend you refer to us)
A company that will support your growth and development.
This post is covered by Part 7 of the immigration act that ensures there is no language barrier to members of the public accessing public services.
Apply now by attaching your CV, we look forward to receiving your application!
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.
Teaching Personnel is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We undertake safeguarding checks on all workers in accordance with DfE statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ this may also include an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted applicants.
We offer all our registered candidates FREE child protection and prevent duty training. All candidates must undertake or have undertaken a valid enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Full assistance provided.
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