Special needs teaching assistant

Special needs teaching assistant needed in Redbridge

Do you have a background in ASD, Complex needs, sensory needs ? Have you had experience working with Primary SEN children?

This specialist school based in Redbridge is looking for a special needs teaching assistant with experience of working with challenging children and young people. This is a specialist SEN school that caters for young people include, ASD, ADHD, Complex needs, obsessive compulsive disorder and attachment disorders.

Special needs teaching assistants will have the opportunity to work in this outstanding school withan outstanding reputation inspecial educationexpertise, curriculum and resources.

Special needs teaching assistants must have experience working with ASD and complex SEN needs.

This school believes that all young people should be provided with appropriate education in a safe, stable, containing learning environment.

Special needs teaching assistant will be working with a secondary aged pupils who has severe complex needs including attachment disorder. Students are academic and they range from mild learning difficulties to gifted and talented.

Special needs teaching assistants are given opportunities to succeed through the use of highly personalised individual education plans to help support their students.

The Therapeutic Education Department works closely with the nurses, doctors and therapists at the centre and with a wide range of professionals in the community.

This role starts in September 2022

Special needs teaching assistants will need excellent behaviour management skills

Be able to build positive relationships with young people and staff

Team Teach or similar restraint training certificate is an advantage

Good knowledge/experience working with children with complex needs within an Special needs environment

Special needs teaching assistants will need experience working with EYFS or primary aged pupils

Special needs teaching assistants will be collaborating with the classroom teacher to define appropriate activities for the pupils in relation to the curriculum

Assessing children who have long or short-term learning difficulties and working with colleagues to identify individual pupils' special needs

Liaising with other professionals, such as social workers, speech and language therapists, physiotherapists and educational psychologists

Skills and experience required are as follows:

SEN, complex needs

ASD

Personal care

Excellent behaviour management

SEN Classroom experience

Working with primary or secondary aged students

The schools offers:

A committed and enthusiastic staff.

Quality professional development.

An exciting opportunity to shape the future of the school and to set the culture for achievement and progress for all of the pupils.

Purposeful, happy and supportive environment with learning for all at its centre.

If you engage the students in a positive way, this will be a very satisfying role, which would look great on your CV.

Your application will be passed onto the client and if we do not contact you directly, your application was unsuccessful on this occasion.

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