Trainee SEN Teaching Assistant Vacancy

We are looking for a trainee Special Education Needs (SEN) Teaching Assistant to work with pupils who have learning difficulties, behavioural problems or physical or sensory disabilities. Many of our young people have had a reluctance to engage in Education prior to joining us, so having a good imagination, creativity and a positive problem solving approach is essential to helping us create new ways of making Education fun for both pupils and staff.

Being a SEN TA is both challenging and rewarding and the role is likely to vary hugely on a day to day basis. The tasks which a trainee SEN TA carries out can include:

• Personal Care
• Engaging with pupils
• Assessing the individual learning needs of pupils
• Evaluating and reporting pupil's progress to teachers, carers, health care professionals and anybody else who helps them
• Positively managing challenging behaviour and dealing with difficult situations
• Supervising activities such as trips locally.
• Working with teachers to find bespoke and individualised child centred education to help engage the young people in Education

The training given includes the following:

• Understanding Core Attachment
• Understanding Brain Development and the Impact of Trauma
• Secure Base Model
• Understanding and Working with Sexually Harmful Behaviour
• Proactive Approaches
• Understanding ASD Behaviour
• Manual Handling

If you feel you have any of the skills shown above please feel free to contact Matt our SEN specialist, we would love to hear from you.