Teaching Assistant

Role: Teaching Assistant

Location: Dawlish

Contract: Full time, temp to perm contract

Start: January 2025

Salary: Starting at £14.45 per hour

Long-Term Teachers have a unique opportunity to join one of our biggest special schools in Devon, providing outstanding educational care and support to students of all ages. Due to an increase in student numbers, the school is seeking a dedicated, passionate, patient and resilient teaching assistant to join their team in January.

As an all-through school supporting students throughout their educational journey, this unique opportunity is to work as a teaching assistant on their upper site with KS3 and KS4 students. You will predominantly be based in a KS4 class but there may be incidents where your assistance is needed elsewhere. Therefore, it is essential that you are flexible and able to adapt at short notice.

The school supports students with a range of special educational needs, including autism, ADHD, complex learning difficulties and social, emotional and mental health needs. Therefore, previous experience with additional needs is essential.

Key responsibilities:

• Supporting the classroom teacher in managing the class and supporting students in focusing and engaging in their learning

• Get the classroom ready for lessons

• Supervise group activities or work with students on a 1:1 basis, depending on need

• Provide a healthy and safe learning environment for children

• Build meaningful and long-lasting relationships to help students excel both academically, socially and emotionally

If you are passionate, hard-working, empathetic and aspire to make a difference, this will be the perfect role for you! Our client welcomes candidates from a variety of backgrounds. Previous experience in care or support work provides an excellent foundation to be successful in this role.

If you prove to be an invaluable asset to the team, there is the opportunity to make this position permanent. This will be a full time role, starting as soon as possible, working Monday to Friday, 08:40 - 15:40, term time only.

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.

In addition you will receive:

• Guarantee Pay Scheme opportunities

• Permanent job roles

• Support and advice during the clearance and onboarding process

• Working to Agency Workers Regulations

• Interview preparation, advice and support

• Statutory employment rights, such as; sick pay, holiday pay, maternity and paternity pay