Sen Support Assistant

Teaching Personnel is working alongside a SEN Provision in the Newport area. The school is a provider of education and care, supporting young people aged between 3 - 15 with complex needs typically related to Asperger's Syndrome, Autism and other conditions.
As our new Teaching Assistant, your role is to support our children with their learning and general wellbeing to ensure every child has the best opportunity to reach their full potential in a caring and safe environment. Where necessary this may include supporting with care needs from time to time as well as positive behaviour management adopting a tailored approach to the individual child.
You will be expected to establish a warm, caring and supportive relationship with pupils in order to support them feeling safe and enabling them to enjoy and learn during their time at the School, and to promote and encourage independence and personal development in pupils and maintain high expectations of behaviour at all times.
You will support the class teacher and contribute to providing high quality, challenging and differentiated educational activities and experiences through supporting the teaching of a broad and balanced curriculum aiming at pupils achieving their full potential in all areas of learning.
Key duties:
- Participate in the planning and evaluation of learning activities.
- Provide meaningful feedback on pupil attainment and progress.
- Support the teacher in monitoring, assessing, recording and reporting pupils' progress according to the school's policies in order to monitor and foster pupils' progress in all areas of learning.
- Support positive behaviour and concentration levels of the children and adapt own behaviour and responses to any change or escalations in behaviour of the children.
- Promote pupils' cognitive, social, emotional, behavioural, physical development and spiritual well-being through a whole Day Curriculum.
Like many SEN environments, your duties are likely to vary and therefore candidates will need to be flexible and be able to lend a hand whenever required.
The Head Teacher is hoping to meet the suitable candidates within school, ideally on a trial basis with a view of securing the right candidates as soon as possible. If you are interested in these roles, please apply now or get in touch with Matt our SEN consultant, whether you are available on a long-term or short-term basis.
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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.
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