Teaching Assistant - Autism

SEN Specialist Teaching Assistant - Autism

Location: Leicester City

Type: Full-time Contract:

Temporary to Permanent Start Date: May 2024

Do you have a passion for working with SEND students?

Are you experienced in working with students with Autism?

Career Teachers has partnered with an SEND School located at Leicester to source a motivated and experienced SEN teaching assistant to work 1:1 with a range of their students as soon as possible.

This school which is superbly resourced to support the complex needs of its students and has an excellent staff culture where all feel valued. Your daily responsibilities will include:

* Acting as a positive role model and managing behaviour

* Ensuring a safe learning environment and approaching education with a child-centred approach

* Promote the inclusion and acceptance of all pupils

* Understand Individual Education Plans & Behaviour Support Plans and assist to implement these, under the guidance of the teacher

* Supporting the class teacher with planning, monitoring and delivering creative lessons Key skills and experience needed:

* SEN experience is essential, preferably with young people with Autism

* Previous support work within a school or other child-related experience

* Strong behaviour management

* Professional manner

* Enthusiastic, positive and friendly approach * Team Teach trained (Not necessary)

Please send your Cv with the application or send direct to ##### or call ##### #####

We look forward to hearing from you.

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.

Benefits of working with Career Teachers

Free CPD

Access to Skills Network

Refer a friend scheme

Recognition programme

Affinity Extra - Thousands of discounts on multiple high street shops including coffee and cinemas, plus other benefits and a Health & Wellbeing portal.

These benefits are applicable to those who are working with Career Teachers. You will gain access to the Affinity Extra this portal once you start working with us.

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.