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SEN Teaching Assistant role set in specialist SEMH School, Social, Emotional and Mental Health, this is a provision for children 5-16, boys and girls.  The children will be there for several reasons related to trauma and their social contexts at home. 

 

Job Title: SEN Teaching Assistant

Location: Middlesbrough 

Salary Scale: £95-£100 per day 
This SEN Teaching Assistant role will give you strong foundations in Mental Health and SEN education to take into your Criminal and Youth Justice aspirations, especially if you aspire to work in Criminal, Youth Justice, Social justice.

 

If you have sincere and genuine aspirations within Probation or Parole, advocacy in the Criminal Justice System in general, this is a great SEN LSA role in which to start towards those aspirations. Realise Education requires someone who wants to sincerely advocate for SEMH children, understanding the student’s successes and challenges, all seen through a clinical and progressive and pragmatic lens.
Being able to raise student’s emotional & academic attainment is crucial, the ability to connect, the first objective is to ensure the children feel safe in their surroundings.  It’s been a struggle to get some students into school, their anxiety dictating the tiny amount of time in school, since Covid especially
At the point of referral to the provision many pupils have additional, associated and sometimes complex needs, which may include low tolerance of stress, social anxiety, many of the young learner’s home lives will have similarities, while being very different in other respects in terms of what ‘home’ will look like.

 

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Please be advised that this role requires a strong knowledge and understanding of safeguarding and child protection and that successful applicants must satisfy all background safer recruitment checks including an enhanced DBS on the update service. 
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• Building relationships as much as each student allows, could take a few days, weeks or even months


• Focus on the vocational subjects, creative and sport, what makes the children engaged


• Focused on key and functional skills, skills that the boys and girls can use outside of the school.


• Some anti-social behaviour will be present and that will take some getting used to; this is all part of the role when aiding society’s most vulnerable children. All training and support provided by the school with their excellent training systems.


• Number of Therapies introduced and holistic processes, a little progress is a cause for success here.


• High cognitive intelligence, SEMH and MLD focus.


• Mental Health, Community focus, each child can come from a very different context and Class, Race, Faith – the challenges the girls face will be very different to most of the boys


• Secondary aged students with levels of learning well below their stated age


• Positive engagement, giving the children a sense of acceptance, talking therapy will not always work here so different approaches required.

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