Are you passionate about working with children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities? Are you looking to advance your career as a teacher? Whether you have relevent experience or none, we are currently working with a number of Secondary schools in the Newcastle upon Tyne area, seeking to recruit resilient and confident Learning Support Assistants who can provide 1:1 or group support to children who have SEND and challenging behaviours. If you are committed to working positively to provide the best possible learning opportunities for the schools pupils, this could be the perfect opportunity for you to advance your career in a rewarding environment!
The successful applicant will:
- Have excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Have a calm and consistent approach and understand how to respond to challenging behaviours
- Hold a university degree
- Be able to work Monday-Friday (term time)
- Have experience and/or knowledge of working with children with SEND (not essential)
Day-to-day responsibilities:
- Providing targeted help and support
- Supporting teachers in managing class behaviour
- Reading with pupils, listening to them read and telling them stories
- Motivating your pupils to achieve above and beyond their potential
- Encourage and build communication skills on a one-to-one basis
- Supervising group activities
- Help children with physical and hygiene tasks
- Liaising with classroom teachers about how best to support pupils
If you are looking for a rewarding challenge and have the suitable qualifications and personal qualities, we would encourage you to Apply Now.
All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role. Please see the FAQs on the Protocol Education website for further details.
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.
Protocol Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We undertake safeguarding checks on all workers in accordance with the DfE statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’, this may also include an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted applicants.
We offer FREE online safeguarding and Prevent Duty training to all our workers. All candidates must undertake or have undertaken a valid enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and subscribe to the DBS Update Service.
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