SEN Teaching Assistant Surrey

Teaching Assistant – SEN School - RH1 

Location: Redhill, Surrey, RH1 
Contract Type: Permanent 

Actual Annual Salary: £24,139.67 - £25,819.26 actual salary dependant on qualifications and experience Plus £1000 Welcome bonus* 

Salary: £13.51 - £14.45 per hour 
⏲️Hours: 40 hours per week - Term Time only - Start time 8.15am - Finish time Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday 4.45pm. Thursday 5pm and Friday 4pm  

Teaching Personnel are working with a warm, welcoming school in the Redhill, Surrey area. The setting supports and educates young people aged 11-16 who require additional support with social communication, emotional regulation and sensory processing, typically associated with Autism. All students at the setting have access to a broad and exciting curriculum, allied to the national curriculum, personalised to meet their needs, interests and passions. With a model of small classes, high levels of classroom support and a supernumerary multi-disciplinary intervention team, the students are given every single opportunity to succeed. 

We are looking to recruit Teaching Assistants to join our team at Chaldon School. This is an exciting opportunity to join the school at the start of their journey. You will be based at Aurora Chaldon school with a requirement to work out of our satellite site Caterham when required.  

What a Teaching Assistant will do:

The purpose of the Teaching Assistant is to support the children with their learning and general wellbeing to ensure every child has the best opportunity to reach their full potential in a caring and safe environment. Where necessary this may include supporting with care needs from time to time as well as positive behaviour management, adopting a tailored approach to the individual child. 

‍Key duties: 

• Take responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare and positive wellbeing of pupils according to the school’s policies, including safeguarding and PREVENT. 
• Provide meaningful feedback on pupil behaviour, relationships and attitudes. 
• Support positive behaviour and concentration levels of the children, and adapt own behaviour and responses to any change or escalations in behaviour of the children. 
• Establish positive relationships with pupils in order to support them in feeling safe and enabling them to learn and enjoy school.  
• Promote and encourage independence and personal development and maintain high expectations of behaviour at all times and support in the achievement of this.  
• Implement, and when appropriate, adjust learning activities as agreed with the teacher. 
• Reinforce learning concepts presented by teachers. 
• Support learning by arranging/providing resources for lessons/activities under the direction of the teacher. 
• Implement learning activities and experiences, appropriate to the class group, by supporting the delivery of a broad and balanced curriculum aiming at pupils achieving their full potential in all areas of learning. 

Duties will vary, you must expect to diversify and lend a hand wherever is required. 

⭐About you: 

We’re looking for enthusiastic individuals who are:

• Passionate about supporting children and young people with SEN
• Patient, empathetic, and resilient
• Flexible and able to adapt to different learning and behavioural needs
• (For Teachers/HLTAs) Qualified or unqualified – experience in SEN or education is desirable but not essential

If you are looking for your next step in your teaching career get in touch today. 

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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