SEN Youth Worker

SEN Youth Worker

Teaching Personnel are currently recruiting for a number of SEN teaching Assistants in the Bury area. These roles will suit someone who has previously worked as a youth worker, care assistant or learning mentor.

Our SEN partner schools are excellently equipped with state-of-the-art facilities. The class sizes are kept small, with 8-10 children per class in order for each of them to reach their full potential.

As our SEN schools are specialist provisions, the children will have additional barriers to learning, such as speech and language needs, communication and interaction needs, hearing impairment visual impairment, autistic spectrum continuum, attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder, a range of physical disabilities and sensory needs, or social, emotional, mental health issues.

The ideal SEN Teaching Assistant will:

• Have experience working with SEN
• Be kind and compassionate
• Have experience working within a school setting
• Enhanced DBS on the update service or be willing to obtain this

Your role as a Teaching Assistant will include:

• Supervise and support pupils ensuring their safety and supporting their access to learning.
• Establish good working relationships with pupils, acting as a role model and being aware of and responding appropriately to individual needs.
• Promote inclusion and acceptance of all pupils.
• Encourage pupils to interact with others and engage in activities led by the teacher.
• Encourage pupils to be as independent as possible.
• Attend to the pupils’ personal needs.
• Implement pupil specific programmes, to support emotional and physical health and welfare needs.

If you believe you fit the criteria for one of our SEN Teaching Assistant positions, please do not hesitate and apply today!

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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