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  • Support Worker
    Support Worker
    16 days ago
    £12.21 hourly
    Full-time
    Uxbridge

    Job Purpose To provide high-quality learning, personal and wellbeing support to adults with learning disabilities and additional needs. The post holder will support service users to access education, community activities and life-skills programmes, promoting independence, dignity, inclusion, and positive outcomes in line with the Centre’s ethos, vision, and values. Ethos, Vision, and Values The post holder will: • Demonstrate and promote the Centre’s ethos, vision, and values, • Maintain a strong belief that students can and do achieve, • Respect service users as individual adults with rights, dignity, and autonomy, • Promote equality, diversity, and inclusive practice, • Act as a positive role model at all times Main Duties and Responsibilities Teaching and Learning Support • Engage with service users during lessons and break times, promoting independence and communication, • Follow guidance from the Class Lecturer and Senior Teaching Aide to reinforce learning and support individual targets and destinations, • Prepare learning environments for internal and external activities, ensuring resources are available and cleared appropriately, • Create learning resources under guidance using Microsoft Office 365 and specialist software following training, • Encourage progression towards employment, community participation and independent living, • Promote self-reliance, self-regulation, and increased self-esteem, • Support a wide range of curriculum activities, including community-based learning, swimming, sports, and trampolining., • Promote the use of ICT in learning, including tablets (iPads) and internal systems, • Following training, support the consistent use of hi-tech communication aids and assistive technology, • Record service users progress using written observations, photographs, and videos, contributing to ongoing and end-of-term evaluations, • Support basic skills programmes for individuals and small groups, including in community settings, • Provide physical support where required, including mobility, wheelchair use, personal and intimate care and responding to emergencies Positive Behaviour Support • Support service users with a range of needs, including behaviours of concern, • Understand, implement, and contribute to Personal Support Plans (PSPs), • Collect, record, and share relevant data as requested, • Support participation in meaningful activities by:, • Ensuring at least one activity is always available, • Encouraging participation in essential but less preferred tasks using motivation and rewards, • Introducing new activities to broaden choice, • Supporting skill development for increased independence, • Maintaining a balanced and varied programme of activities Safe, Consistent and Predictable Environments • Use strategies such as visual timetables and social stories, • Support structured routines and informed choices, • Identify and reduce environmental factors that may contribute to challenging behaviour, • Support service users to cope with unfamiliar or challenging environments Nursing, Medical and Personal Care • Support service users’ health and wellbeing by following individual care and medical plans, • Undertake basic first aid and administer PRN medication (e.g., EpiPen) following training, • Provide personal and intimate care with dignity, respect, and sensitivity Therapy and Physical Support • Support manual handling needs in line with individual guidelines, including walking support, wheelchair use and hoists, • Implement individual programmes under guidance from the Integrated Services Team, including:, • Communication guidelines, • Eating and drinking plans (following training and sign-off), • Physiotherapy programmes, • Contribute to multi-disciplinary discussions regarding service users progress and provision Safeguarding, Compliance and Professional Responsibilities • Safeguard and promote the welfare of all service users and report concerns in line with safeguarding procedures, • Follow key documentation including Risk Assessments, Care Plans, PSPs, and Behaviour Support Plans, • Adhere to Health and Safety policies at all times, • Participate in training and professional development, • Promote and follow all Centre policies, including Safeguarding, Equality & Diversity and Health & Safety, • Work flexibly, • Undertake other duties of a similar nature as required by the principal

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  • Social Emotional SEN Teaching Assistant
    Social Emotional SEN Teaching Assistant
    2 months ago
    £13.53–£15.54 hourly
    Full-time
    London

    Primary School in Brent Searching for an Social Emotional SEN TA, January 2026 Start Role Breakdown: Social Emotional SEN Teaching Assistant • Start after the October 2025 half-term break, • Aspiring Psychologists, Pastoral Leads, SENCOs, SEN TAs wanted, • Primary School in Brent, NW10, Inner London, • £88/day - £101/day, PAYE, Weekly Pay, • Regular CPD training, • Supporting students with various learning needs Background: With a 21% acceptance rate for the Clinical Psychology Doctorate in the UK, we specialise in Career-Focused Roles, providing the relevant training, experience & exposure required for aspiring Clinical Psychologists to significantly increase your chances of acceptance. School - SE SEN TA • This primary school holds a successful conversion rate of SE SEN TAs to Psychologists (e.g. Clinical, Educational, etc.), • 1:1 &/or group support of students with social, emotional & behavioural needs (e.g. ASD, ADHD, speech, language and communication needs) within an ARP, • Working with a team of like minded professionals, • Liaising with SENCOs, Therapists, SLTs & some Psychologists (external agencies) The Ideal Candidate: SE SEN TA • Aspiring Clinical Psychologist (or individuals looking to get into Developmental, Educational), • Academic Individual - Psychology-related undergraduate degree or master's degree, • Holds prior experience working with students or vulnerable individuals (SEN/SEMH), • Empathetic & ambitious individual with a willingness to learn, • Skills required - Communication, critical thinking, attention to detail, active listening Benefits • CPD Training - SEN Awareness, Safeguarding, Social, and Emotional Development, • Part-expensed Travel for those based outside London, • Termly performance review & career guidance If you are interested in gaining the necessary experience to progress your career, apply for the position as an SE SEN TA. This can be done through this job advert or by calling in directly for an immediate review of your application.

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