SEN Teaching Assistant
REF: SENPLOY/172217
Education ⫽ SEN Teaching Assistant Jobs
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
£13.69 - £16.56 per hour
Contract, Part time
Desirable Skills
Diploma in Childcare, ,Have experience working in Special Educational Needs, ,Have experience working with children and/or young people
Job description
- Teaching Assistant
- Nottingham
- April 2025
- £13.69 - £16.56 per hour
Our client, a specialist school in Nottingham, is seeking an experienced SEN Teaching Assistant. The school supports students aged 3-16 with a variety of special educational needs, including ASD, PMLD, MLD, SLD, SEMH, SLCN, and physical disabilities. The school's mission is to help students build the skills and character needed to develop the confidence to face life's challenges.
As a Teaching Assistant, your role is crucial in supporting children to overcome learning and developmental challenges. You will help foster confidence, curiosity, creativity, and empathy while assisting students in their growth and development.
Key duties include:
- Through effective learning strategies, support all pupils to participate in learning activities. This will involve being aware of pupils' needs, using appropriate equipment and materials and modifying resources as necessary to support pupils to participate and make progress.
- Provide support to individuals, groups or whole class on teacher planned curriculum activities to enable them to access the curriculum, whilst monitoring progress and dealing with challenges as they arise.
- Assist the class teacher in the planning and evaluation of teaching and learning activities.
- Contribute to the management of pupil behaviour by encouraging positive behaviour
The successful candidate will:
- Be qualified to Level 2 CACHE Diploma in Childcare and education or equivalent
- Ideally, have GCSE English and mathematics or a willingness to work towards a fully funded equivalent qualification.
- Experience of working with children and young people.
- Have an unwavering commitment to a wide range of children with individual and often complex needs.
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills
Due to the nature of the roles, candidates must be UK residents residing within the local area. Please note that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for overseas candidates.
Provide Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all supply staff to share this commitment. As part of our recruitment process, we will undertake the necessary checks to complete your registration with us, inclusive of a video interview, current references, and DBS check.
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