SEN Teaching Assistant

Protocol Education are currently working with various Primary schools across Lewisham  who are looking for experienced SEND TA to join their school team. Once you are registered with us we have various opportunities to offer you depending on your availibility and your preferences. We can offer you long-term, short-term, daily supply roles. 

For the strongest candidates some posts may lead to a permanent position at the school.

About the school:

Various mainstream Primary school in Lewisham has a large proportion of students with additional needs including ADHD, EAL, Autism (ASD/ASC), Moderate Learning Difficulties (MLD), Social Emotional & Mental Health (SEMH), Severe Learning Difficulties (SLD), Profound & Multiple Learning Difficulties (PMLD), Hearing Impairment (HI), Visual Impairment (VI), Speech, Language & Communication Needs (SpLD). 

The school work closely with parents and outside agencies to make sure they are providing the best possible support to all of their students.

The Senor Leadership Team are extremely passionate about promoting a healthy work-life balance and go to great lengths to ensure staff well-being is looked after.

About the Role:

As a SEN TA, you will be working with 1 or 2 children with additional needs to help them access the curriculum as much as possible. You will assist them within the classroom and use various different teaching techniques to ensure they are progressing.

As part of this role, you will also run interventions with your students outside the classroom.

You will play a major part in the routine of these children, so it is important all applicants are reliable and passionate about supporting children with additional needs.

What we need from you: 

If you have previous experience working as a SEN Teaching Assistant or are passionate about improving the outcomes for young people, this is the role for you.

 As an individual you will be passionate about supporting SEND children and this will be evident in your positive approach on a daily basis.

It is desired (although not essential) that applicants have a certain qualification of Special needs + great experience in working with children with SEND.

What Protocol can offer:

• Competitive rates of pay and in-house PAYE.
• Free continuing professional development training (CPD)
• Ongoing honest, friendly support from our recruitment specialists who maintain 28 years of educational experiences.
•£250 Bonus refer a teacher payment scheme.
• The opportunity of working with a wide choice of schools across the Lewisham area.
• CV and interview advice and support.

Protocol Education is a leading supply teaching agency. We provide schools with the best teaching support staff, and SEN staff they need to be successful, while helping teachers, teaching assistants and nursery staff find rewarding work that furthers their careers.

If you are interested in this role, please apply with an up-to-date CV or email at mehak.jaura@protocol-education.com 

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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