Teaching Assistant

ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A NEW CHALLENGE IN YOUR CAREER?

DO YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO WORK WITHIN A CHALLENGING ENVIRONMENT SUPPORTING VULNERABLE CHILDREN?

Teaching Personnel are currently seeking new Teaching Assistants and Behaviour Support Assistants. The School in question is a highly successful and popular 11-16 academy serving the needs of the Woking, Surrey community. They offer an exceptional, holistic education enabling all students to achieve the very highest standards in all aspects of school life. Their strong core values enable students to achieve even more than they thought possible. The successful candidate will be responsible for the planning, teaching and tracking pupil progress involved within the role. The role is to start after October half term 2020. 

Behavioural difficulties

• Anti-social and disengaged behaviour
• ADHD

The Role:

Teaching Assistants will be working in a classroom supporting teachers and fellow support workers on a 1:1 or small group basis with pupils.

The role will operate between 8:30 - 15:30, Monday - Friday.

Full time is preferred but part time applicants may still apply, as we have other roles that could be made available.

The Candidate:

Ideal candidates for being a teaching assistant may need to be able to drive but it isn't essential, as we will likely have a school local to you.

Ideal applicants should have previous experience working with complex behaviour or challenging needs professionally. Without professional experience any personal experience with the following could help the candidate succeed in this role:

• Psychology
• Youth/Community work experience
• Care worker
• Independant living assistant
• Previous Teaching Assistant Experience
• Challenging behaviour within family
• Mentoring 
• SEN Experience

SEN Teaching Assistants will be working in a classroom supporting teachers and fellow support workers on a 1:1 or on a small group basis with pupils, so should have a passion for mentoring pupils closely through their differentiated curriculum. 

You will need to have a Child Only Enhanced DBS on the update service or be willing to apply for one.

Teaching Personnel do offer many development courses through our CPD Academy; such as Autism Awareness, Safeguarding and Team Teach to help support any successful candidates within this environment.

If you are suited to this role, please contact me or click on apply now and I will be in touch.

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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