SEN Teaching Assistant New

Are you a teaching assistant experienced in complex needs? Or are you from a care giving background experienced in providing personal care for individuals with severe learning difficulties?

Location: Royston

Contract: Full time starting ASAP (temporary to permanent contract)

Candidate: Must be willing to support with personal care

If the answer to either of these questions is yes, then please contact us to have an informal chat about how we can help you.

Teaching Personnel are actively seeking PMLD Teaching Assistants for their client school in Royston. The school supports students aged 6-19 and is a residential special school for children with physical disabilities and complex medical needs. Children attending the school will usually have a physical disability and may have associated medical, learning, or sensory needs. The hours for this role would be 8:30 – 4:30 and duties would include supporting learning in the classroom, supporting personal care needs feeding and break duties.

The school has an outstanding reputation in the local community and provides an excellent academic environment for young people who have a range of additional needs including Autism, SLD, and PMLD. The school are hoping to employ Teaching assistants to start ASAP. School have stated the start date can be flexible for the right applicant.

The ideal Care assistant for this Teaching assistant position will have training such as moving and handling, administering medication, first aid. The school is also keen to appoint Care assistants who have a patient and caring personality and have experience delivering person focused care.

If you don’t have the above experience but are hoping to begin a career in education click apply now and we will be in touch about other positions in your local area.

Teaching Personnel can offer you:

• The opportunity to gain an appreciation for the challenges and reward experienced by education professionals as they strive to deliver the best possible outcomes for their pupils

• Teaching Personnel’s CPD Academy – Your Continuous Professional Development

• Pay – Weekly pay based on your skills, experience, flexibility and availability

• All pay rates quoted will be inclusive of 12.07% statutory holiday pay.

• myTP – Digital services that make your work admin and communication simple

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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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