Teaching Assistant

Teaching Assistant

Start: January 2024

Contract: Temporary OR Permanent following a 18-week hire period

Hours: Part time and full time available, 19.5 or 32.5 hours per week

Teaching Personnel work in partnership with a successful 11-16, mixed comprehensive trust school located in Christchurch, graded ‘GOOD’ by Ofsted with ‘outstanding qualities’. The school is going through an exciting transition with their SEN Department and the Student Support Centre. This term the departments began working together more, to support the individual needs of students and are now seeking to recruit additional Teaching Assistants to join the team from January.

The successful candidate will be expected to provide support to individual students who have Educational Health Care Plans (EHCP’s). Such students may have a variety of special educational needs, ranging from social communication difficulties, autism, dyslexia or behaviour issues. You would primarily be supporting these students on a 1:1 or small group basis within a class setting, following the instructions of the class teacher.

Experience working with young people with special educational needs or experience of social communication difficulties would be beneficial, but not essential. The school are looking for passionate people who have a strong desire to support young people overcome their barriers to learning. Candidates must have a high standard of communication, numeracy and literacy and be able to promote these effectively to ensure we deliver outstanding academic outcomes for our young people.

Working in a school is not essential however, as this school in Christchurch does looks to give passionate individuals a chance to begin their career in education. They also highly value any personal experience with children and SEN requirements, or other transferrable skills such as sports coaching.

If you feel you have the passion and desire to really make a difference to a young person’s educational experience, please apply now with your CV!

Please note all applications are subject to holding/applying for a fully enhanced child only DBS, as well as other vetting checks. Full assistance and support will be provided by your dedicated consultant.

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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.
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