Teaching Assistant

Teaching assistant position supporting children with SEN in primary

Opportunity to work with children from nursery up to year 6

Closest station is Paddington, Westminster London

80 - 105 per day (450 - 525 per week)

**State of the art school with great reputation and involvement in the local community**

Teaching assistant job role:

• Working within the classroom of a mainstream primary school, supporting the class teacher with lessons, general classroom behaviour, setting up and delivering activities and supervising play and lunch time breaks.
• Working on a one to one basis, supporting children in the classroom with special needs such as Autism, ADHD, social and emotional mental health and physical disabilities. Assisting them with class work, adapting the lesson, managing behaviour and ensuring a rich education.
• Small group intervention work, taking small groups of pupils with different level abilities for more focused work sessions based on maths, phonics/English and other key subjects.
• Setting up classroom and any activities before children arrive, ensure a clean and safe environment throughout the day and preparing for next day.

Benefits for the teaching assistant:

• Rewarding position to work with primary children, supporting them to achieve a full education and gain essential skills to grow within education and themselves.
• Supportive environment from friendly team of teachers, other teaching assistants and senior leadership team. On the job training provided alongside working with outside companies such as occupational therapists, speech and language therapist etc.
• Flexible working schedule, term time only position. During term time hours are 8:30am - 4pm, Monday - Friday with half terms and summer holidays off.
• Weekly and competitive pay, working through Reeson Education pays a week in arrears every Friday. You will also have access to a dedicated consultant.

Required to qualify for the role of a teaching assistant:

• Ideally you will have a childcare related qualification, university degree or previous experience working with children in some capacity such as previous teaching assistant, professional care giver, sports or holiday club coach etc.
• You will be passionate about providing a top notch education to children and especially those with special needs or lower level learners.
• The successful teaching assistant will need compassion and patience, a calm nature to understand the children and help them to understand any lessons, subjects, behaviours etc.
• Enhanced DBS on the update CV (Should you not have a DBS yet, Reeson Education will be able to help you apply for one)

Interested in this position? The headteacher is looking for the successful teaching assistant to start after the October half term, is you think this could be you then please apply below ASAP!

Reeson Education:

REESON Education is London's Premier Recruitment Agency. Established in 2006 by experienced teachers, education professionals and recruitment specialists, we have built our business and reputation on the cores values of honesty, integrity and excellence.

We care about education and the provision of education and have established an excellent reputation with schools and teachers alike.

At REESON Education we work closely with a large network of Nurseries, Primary Schools, Secondary Schools and Colleges across London. Our client base provides us with an abundance of available daily supply, long term and permanent opportunities across all age groups in all areas of London.

Please note that all daily/hourly rates quoted are inclusive of holiday pay at 12.07%