SEN Teaching Assistant
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A mainstream secondary school requires a specialist teaching assistant to start in September to support a student transitioning into year 7. As well as supporting in lessons on a 1:1 basis, the successful canddiate will also spend time in the inclusion zone supporting other students with challenging behaviour and learning difficulties.
This school is located centrally in Plymouth with good public transport links, so driving isn't essential for this role.
The successful Teaching Assistant will need:
- Recent experience supporting children and young adults with learning difficulties
- Have strong relationship skills and build rapport with pupils
- To be flexible and reliable
- Ideally having worked in an education environment
Here’s why you should work through Teaching Personnel:
- Exclusive bookings from schools who only book through us
- Care and support throughout every booking – making sure you enjoyed your day and what we can do if you didn’t
- Continuous new opportunities throughout SEN, Secondary and Primary – gaining new experience in different areas of education
- Continuous professional development – exclusive training on courses like Team-Teach, Pedagogy, SEN 1/2/3, Behaviour Management and lots more
- Being paid via PAYE – we process your tax and national insurance for unlike an umbrella company who would charge you a FEE
- Recommend a Friend bonus scheme with GBP50 for every successful application – this has no limit the more people you refer the more money you earn
- If you require a DBS we charge the standard cost of just GBP40 – no admin fees and we accept other child workforce DBS’s if they are on the Update service
Teaching Personnel offer WEEKLY PAY and do not use Umbrella companies to process your payment.
Teaching Personnel is the UKs leading education recruitment agency that can offer you CPD training, competitive rates of pay and invaluable experience for future teaching positions
All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role. Please see teachingpersonnel.com/faqs 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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