Sports Teaching assistant

• Full time

• Permanent placement

• SEN school

• ASAP start

A fantastic, unique role has risen within an independent special school, situated in the beautiful Somerset countryside. The school provides up to 24 places for children aged 5-14 years old who have social, emotional and mental health needs, speech and language difficulties and/or autistic spectrum conditions.

The role would involve supporting within the P.E class, this could involve devising activities and games suitable for the students needs, along with this you will be managing behaviour, with the opportunity to support in other subjects.

To be successful with your application you must be passionate, caring and committed to each student to help enable successful learning as well as help them make social, emotional and behaviour progress. In addition to this, it is essential you have a love for sports and have experience coaching sports to children with additional needs.

This will be a full time, permanent role, commencing as soon as possible. The contracted hours of work will be 8:30am - 3:30pm, you must be flexible to stay later to attend staff meetings and training.

Working with Long-term Teachers:

We are an independent agency working with Nurseries, Primary, Secondary and Special Schools.

LTT was founded with the aim of creating a genuine, transparent and straightforward service to help candidates secure their next role. We place a huge emphasis on delivering an exceptional service where you will be supported, listened to and valued throughout.

Your dedicated consultant will invest time to understand your experience, skill-set and what your ideal role looks like. You will have frequent updates with your progress through compliance, applications for specific roles as well as additional roles which we feel may be of interest to you.

We are proud to have the highest standard of compliance in achieving the REC audited status. Working with us means you will get the very best support and guidance through the clearance process from your own specific point of contact from our in-house compliance team.

In addition to the above we also offer:

Guaranteed Pay Plans

Agency Worker Regulations

Interview preparation advice and support

Support and councelling through a confidential helpline

24/7 access to a UK GP, including consultations and prescription delivery

Discounts and offers worth hundreds of pounds

Childcare voucher scheme

Statutory employment rights, such as; sick pay, holiday pay, maternity and paternity pay.