SEN Teaching Assistant

Role: SEN Teaching Assistant

Location: Okehampton

Start date: As soon as possible

Salary: £23,500 - £24,294

Long-Term Teachers have a fantastic opportunity to make a real difference at a lovely special school located in Okehampton. Providing high quality education and support to students aged 4 - 16, our school is seeking to appoint dedicated teaching assistants to work across the school, depending on the need.

About the role:

The students you will be supporting all have needs associated with social, emotional and mental health challenges. Most of the students also have other associated additional needs, such as autism, ADHD, attachment issues and speech and language difficulties. Given that the students have SEMH difficulties and may display challenging behaviour, strong behaviour management skills, patience and resilience are crucial for this role.

Key Responsibilities:

• Classroom support: Provide general classroom support, including one-to-one assistance and small group interventions as needed.

• Lesson preparation: Assist the teacher with lesson planning, resource gathering and activity set up.

• Safeguarding: Ensure the safety and wellbeing of all students, promoting a secure and supportive environment.

• Behaviour management: Effectively manage student behaviour and address the individual needs in accordance with with their EHCP’s

• Curriculum access: Support students in accessing the curriculum, helping them to overcome barriers to learning

About You:

• Experience: Previous experience working with children in the UK, whether in early years, primary or secondary education.

• SEN knowledge: A strong understanding of special educational needs and strategies to support young people

• Personal qualities: Resilient, adaptable, hardworking and possess a good sense of humour.

• Professional growth: A willingness to develop your knowledge and skills further.

• Flexibility: Ability to adapt to changing plans at short notice

• Able to drive and have access to your own vehicle

This role is perfect for university students, experienced TA’s looking for a new challenge or anyone wanting to work around their current schedule. You will be working term time only, Monday - Friday, between the hours of 8:30am - 3pm. If you would like to discuss this role further, please get in touch!

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