Flexible Supply Teaching Assistant

Specialist teaching assistant - Flexible work

• Based in BS16/BS15 area

• Flexible/ supply hours

• Term time only

Are you an enthusiastic teaching assistant, with extensive experience working with students with SEN, Long - Term teachers have a fantastic opportunity to work on a flexible basis within a fantastic specialist school.

The school supports students age 3 - 19 and is split across 3 sites, the predominant need of the school is severe and profound learning difficulties, complex needs, autism, sensory impairments.

Key Duties:

• Offering general classroom support

• 1:1 and small group interventions

• Support with admin duties, which include photocopying, printing, display boards, activity prep

• Offering emotional support

• Monitoring on break time duties

• Helping on school trips and extra curricular activities

• Attending additional training to develop your skill set further

About you

It is essential that you:

• Have at least 2 years of experience working with children

• Have a strong understanding of SEN and you can recognise how to support the individual needs

• Understanding of safeguarding and guidance for safe working practice

• Excellent organisational and communication skills

• Team player!

• Great sense of humour!

This role will be perfect for a TA looking for flexibility to work around their schedule, the hours of work will be Monday to Friday, term time only between the hours of 8:30 am - 3:30pm.

Working with Long Term Teachers:

We are an independent agency working with Nurseries, Primary, Secondary and Special Schools.

LTT was founded with the aim of creating a genuine, transparent and straightforward service to help candidates secure their next role. We place a huge emphasis on delivering an exceptional service where you will be supported, listened to and valued throughout.

Your dedicated consultant will invest time to understand your experience, skill-set and what your ideal role looks like. You will have frequent updates with your progress through compliance, applications for specific roles as well as receiving additional information on roles which we feel may be of interest to you.

We are proud members of the REC and we have the highest standard of compliance. Working with us means you will get the very best support and guidance through the clearance process from your own specific point of contact from our in-house compliance team.