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SEMH Teaching Assistant

Milk Education - The UK’s First Environmentally Friendly Education Recruitment Agency.
Posted 15 hours ago, valid for 7 days
Location

Wakefield, West Yorkshire WF2 8TY

Contract type

Full Time

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  • This role focuses on providing foundational experience in Mental Health and Special Educational Needs (SEN) education, particularly for those interested in Criminal and Youth Justice.
  • Candidates should be graduates in Youth and Community, Psychology, or Criminology, with a passion for advocating for Social, Emotional, and Mental Health (SEMH) children.
  • The position is based in Wakefield and involves working with children aged 5-11 who face various emotional and academic challenges, requiring a compassionate and empathetic approach.
  • While a degree is preferred, non-graduates with relevant experience and a strong desire to help are also encouraged to apply.
  • The salary for this role is competitive, and candidates should ideally have at least one year of experience in a related field.

This role will give you great foundations in Mental Health and SEN education to take into your Criminal and Youth Justice aspirations, especially if you aspire to work in Criminal, Youth Justice, Social justice.

We require someone who wants to sincerely advocate for SEMH children, understanding the student’s successes and challenges, all seen through a clinical and progressive and pragmatic lens.

Youth and Community, Psychology & Criminology Graduates required for this LSA role in Wakefield, you will be working children aged 5-11 who have low tolerance levels for stress. If you have ambitions within advocacy and social care, this is a good role to start in.

If you are not a graduate, I would still love to hear from you and discuss your objectives and where your compassion and empathy comes from for these sectors.

Being able to raise student’s emotional & academic attainment is crucial, the ability to connect while also having good academic content, is key. But connecting comes first and in an Alternative Provisions and Specialist SEN schools.

At the point of referral to the provision many pupils have additional, associated and sometimes complex needs, which may include ADHD (Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder); ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder); many of the children will have extreme anxiety, pressures from within and outside of school.

The school’s aims are not having to exclude any students, finding a process or method that they can keep children in school, even if it is not full time. Building relationships, CONNECT BEFORE CONTENT.

Can you make the student’s life just that little bit better today, keep them safe and demonstrate the value of an education to the students?

  • Building relationships as much as each student allows, which will enable you to build the student’s academic attainment.
  • Helping the children re-integrate back into school, into the wider community
  • The Restorative approach will then aid each child’s education and academic ability and performance, but only when you have connected with the children first
  • Number of Therapies introduced and holistic processes, a little progress is a cause for success here
  • High cognitive intelligence, SEMH and Autism focus Pathological Demand Avoidance and Pervasive developmental disorder
  • Positive engagement, giving the children a sense of acceptance, talking therapy will not always work here so different approaches required

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.