SEN Teaching Assistant
24 days ago
Chester
Your new company Desian Education are proud to be working in partnership with a well-established and highly regarded full cohort SEND school in Chester as they are looking to appoint a reliable and motivated teaching assistant for a temporary to permanent contract. This role will be starting after the Easter holidays and will last the remainder of the academic year, with a permanent contract guaranteed for the right individual. Your new role This is an extremely supportive SEND specialist school that supports pupils between the ages of 2 – 19 with a variety of complex and profound SEND such as ASD, non-verbal, PMLD, and more. You will be joining an extremely supportive year 3 class with the full support of an experienced teacher and 4 teaching assistants. You will offer 1:1 support to a pupil with ASD and non-verbal that is new to the school and is struggle to integrate due to a change in their routine. You will support them throughout the school day, meeting them at the school gate and walking them back to their parents/guardians at the end of the day. You will: • Advocate for them throughout the day, • Implement positive behaviour strategies: traffic light systems, sensory rooms, etc, • Integrate into new pupil groups, • Use Makaton, PECs and basic SALT to support speech, • Work in collaboration with external specialists What you need to succeed • Full “Right to Work” in the UK, • Referenceable experience supporting SEND, • Referenceable experience supporting children and young people, • Be willing to undergo an Enhanced Children’s DBS check What you’ll get in return If you are successful in your application, you will receive: • Full support and dedication of an experienced and dedicated consultant, • Competitive rate of pay, • Full holiday entitlement, • Company pension scheme, • Long-term contract, • Possible permanent contract, • Free training