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Special Educational Needs Teaching Assistant - Tower Hamlets

Are you interested in working with young people with special needs in a School focusing on core subjects, life skills and lessons out in the community?

I am currently recruiting for a Special Educational Needs Teaching Assistant ( SEN TA ) for a school in Tower Hamlets. The role is full time and will start as soon as possible on a long term basis for the full academic year and will most likely become permanent for the right candidate.

Job Requirement:

• Experience supporting young people
• understanding of special needs, autism / ASD / ASC and learning difficulties.
• Previous support work, TA or LSA work within a SEN secondary school or college or other related experience is a bonus
• A caring and professional manner, willing to support with the personal care of pupils.
• Can-Do attitude

This rewarding role involves providing support to the class teacher in all lessons, doing 1:1 and group work with students in a class to keep them engaged and making progress, organising various class activities and helping to improve the academic and social ability of all students, providing support to them in an effort to help them overcome their various barriers to learning. This group focuses on life skills and out in the community lessons They are looking for someone with empathy and motivation, that will enjoy being out in the community.

Special Educational Needs Teaching Assistant - Tower Hamlets

Experience working with young people with SEN, specifically autism (ASD / ASC), is desirable but no essential. The needs of the students are moderate but personal care may arise from time to time from supervising lunches to escorting to bathroom etc. which the school would provide training for if needed, in order to be able to support in future.

The School:

• Good Ofsted
• On site outreach team including occupational therapist, speech and language therapy, Psychologist

Special Educational Needs Teaching Assistant - Tower Hamlets

Students:

• Moderate Learning Difficulties, Autistic Spectrum Conditions (Autism), Social Emotional Mental Health needs (SEMH), Physical Impairments and or Communication Disorders.
• Have an Education, Health and Care Plan.
• Abilities and needs of the pupils vary.

At Career Teachers we are fully compliant with Agency Worker Regulations, ensuring you receive equal treatment for pay and conditions after a 12 week qualifying period. Please ask for further details.

All quoted rates are inclusive of 12.07% holiday pay.

Important Notice: In order for you to be successful in applying for the above position you should be eligible to work in the UK, or hold a relevant work visa. Safeguarding, quality and integrity are at the heart of what we do. During the application process you are required to:

- Attend an interview in person;

- Give details for us to complete Reference checks;

- Provide an Enhanced DBS disclosure

We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and young people within education. We have a policy, as a matter of courtesy, to respond to all applications within three working days. However, because of the volume of applications, we are sometimes unable to reply to individual enquiries. If we have not contacted you within this specified time your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion, we encourage you to please apply for any other position that you may see in the future. Thank you. Career Teachers is a Recruitment Business and is advertising this vacancy on behalf of one of its Clients.