Sen Teaching Assistant

Are you an enthusiastic, caring individual looking for a new role supporting students with special educational needs? Do you have the skillset required to provide additional support into a classroom, working closely with the teacher to provide outstanding and inclusive learning? We would love to hear from you! Best In Class are looking for an experienced SEN Teaching Assistant to join an incredible, well resourced primary school based in BD8.

As an SEN Teaching Assistant, your roles and responsibilities will include:

• Prepare a range of learning materials that can be adapted to each students learning needs
• Look after and develop students physical, social and emotional welfare
• Create an interesting and stimulating environment
• Work collaboratively with your colleagues and other professionals such as speech and language therapists
• Working one-to-one with certain students and taking small groups of students out to complete activities
• Provide support to the class teacher with keeping records up to date and providing information needed based on progress of each child
• Communicate effectively with parents and professionals, sharing information as required with internal and external agencies to support pupils
• Use a variety of communication aids with students
• Maintain a safe working environment – Managing challenging behaviour when situations arise
• Working with pupils on therapy or care programmes, with the support of relevant professionals according to students needs
• Have a general understanding of ECHP’s for students in order to support their additional needs thoroughly

The school are looking for an experienced SEN Teaching Assistant with a Level 3 qualification as a minimum, that relates to the role. With a specific Resourced Provision for students with special educational needs, the school provide high quality teaching utilising a range of resources and technology. It is important to the school that students are given the opportunity to access education within the mainstream classroom therefore, it is important that they are fully included in school life. The school is based on the outskirts of Bradford city centre, towards Heaton, making it easily accessible for all applying candidates.

If you know of others who may be interested in a role similar to this, please feel free to pass their details onto us and we will contact them. You will receive a £50-£100 amazon voucher for each successful candidate that you refer to us!

The ideal candidate will:

• Be a positive, outgoing and enthusiastic SEN TA who has a passion for supporting students through their learning journey
• Be an understanding individual who wants their students to aim high and achieve to the best of their ability
• Be able to utilise a range of communication aids to meet a variety of needs for each student

The successful candidate must have:

• Qualifications relating to the role, ideally Level 3 or above
• Experience working with people with learning difficulties
• An enhanced DBS that is registered to the update service
• Two suitable references covering the past two years
• Right to work in the U.K