Bank Teaching Assistant

• Do you have experience supporting children and/or adults with Special Educational Needs?
• Are you seeking a rewarding role?

Teaching Personnel are working with a client school in Yeovil, seeking Teaching Assistants to join their team. The school is an SEN School catering for pupils from Early Years/EYFS through to College. They cater for a range of special educational needs needs, including Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties (PMLD), Severe Learning Difficulties (SLD) and complex needs. Some pupils have additional sensory or physical impairments, speech and language disorders or medical needs, others are on the Autistic Spectrum ASC).

Your role will involve working within the class to support the class teacher with their lessons. You will be working alongside a team of support staff in class and may also be required to work on a 1-1 basis. We have positions available in each age range (primary, secondary and college) so you will be matched to a class based on your experience and/or suitability.

This is a flexible working role, starting ASAP. Whether you are looking to work 1 or 5 days a week, we will be able to help you.

To be successful in this role you should:

• Have personal, professional or voluntary experience working with individuals that have special needs or mental health difficulties
• Be resilient and confident working with challenging behaviour
• Be calm, empathetic and adaptable 
• Have excellent written and verbal English skills

All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role. Please see the FAQ’s on the Teaching Personnel website for 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.
Teaching Personnel is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We undertake safeguarding checks on all workers in accordance with 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 all our registered candidates FREE child protection and prevent duty training. All candidates must undertake or have undertaken a valid enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Full assistance provided.
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