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SalaryDid you know you dont need qualifications to be a teaching assistant?
- Are you passionate about making a difference?
- Do you have experience working with children or vulnerable adults?
- Or even had personal experience supporting SEND?
If so, we would love to hear from you!
Protocol Education are looking to recruit a Special Needs Teaching Assistant, for a provision in Peterborough supporting children ages 4-16. You will be supporting children with varying SEND needs in mixed-age specialist classes. All pupils have an Education, Health and Care Plan for communication and interaction with a diagnosis of Autism. Pupils may have associated difficulties, within the areas of: Cognition and learning Sensory and physical needs.
Within this role you will utilise your knowledge of Learning Support, communication skills and creativity to develop a varied approach helping pupils with Special Education Needs and Disabilities understand the information presented and supporting them throughout their education.
The role:
- Supervise pupils, ensuring their safety and ability to access learning activities.
- Assisting them to understand the information presented using a variety of teaching aids.
- Aid the execution of education plans suitable to each pupils’ learning objectives.
- Build a trusting relationship with pupils and communicate according to their understanding.
- Promote class interaction and ensure pupils engage throughout the lessons.
- Create an interesting environment for students.
- Look after their physical, social, and emotional welfare.
This is a long-term, full-time position so we are looking for candidates to be available 5 days a week between the hours of 8:30am-15:30pm.
Experience in a school environment is not necessary, we would love to hear from you have volunteered or worked in Youth clubs/ Theatre groups/ After school clubs to name a few.
If you have a passion for supporting children with SEND and want to make a difference, please apply now!
All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role. Please see the FAQs on the Protocol Education website for further details.
All pay rates quoted will be inclusive of 12.07% statutory holiday pay. This advert is for a temporary position. In some cases, the option to make this role permanent may become available at a later date.
Protocol Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We undertake safeguarding checks on all workers in accordance with the DfE statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’, this may also include an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted applicants.
We offer FREE online safeguarding and Prevent Duty training to all our workers. All candidates must undertake or have undertaken a valid enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and subscribe to the DBS Update Service.
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