SEN Teaching Assistant

Learning Support Assistant - Wigan/Leigh
SEN provision
Term Time Only
37.5 hours
Monday to Friday

Prospero Teaching are working with an independent specialist day school for boys and girls aged from 5 to 16, catering for pupils with a wide range of needs in Lancashire.

Their teams work together to ensure successful outcomes for pupils who often arrive at the school with a troubled view of education and life. They are a Therapeutic Led Trauma Informed School providing individualised curriculums for their young people supported by their Class Teams, Wellbeing Team and own Therapists.

The opportunity

Enjoy a rewarding education career and have a real impact on Pupils' lives. Join an amazing team making schools and classrooms supportive, enriching places where vulnerable pupils and young people achieve far more than they ever expected.

As a Learning Support Assistant, you will connect directly with the brilliant pupils and young people they care for, helping to make sure they get the very best from their education.

You will help prepare learning materials and run classroom activities, with plenty of hands-on experience and some supervision too. You will take responsibility for their emotional and physical needs, supporting them to develop as individuals and engage with the world.

Supporting pupils with complex Social Emotional Mental Health (SEMH) needs and Autism (ASC) is important and rewarding work

You will be adaptable and ready to work in a variety of classroom roles, both indoors and outside according to individual need. Taking a responsive and caring approach, you may be running classroom activities, leading outdoor experiences or supervising pupils as they explore further afield.

EXPERIENCE

Relevant experience in a school or similar setting.

Experience of working with children and young people with special educational needs and/or social, emotional and mental health difficulties.

Experience of effectively and positively managing a class and leading learning with groups of pupils, using appropriate strategies to enable them to settle to learn.

TRAINING AND QUALIFICATIONS

Specific training in interventions/SEN/SEMH.

Experience of working with children and/or young people

Commitment to all CPD offered.

Team Teach training would be beneficial to this role, however this can be provided for free.

TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THIS ROLE THROUGH PROSPERO TEACHING, YOU MUST:

Hold Right to Work in the UK

Hold an enhanced child barred list DBS certificate registered with the online update service or be willing to process a new application

Provide two professional related references

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If you are interested in working at the above school or similar schools in the Wigan area, please contact Krystina on and send a copy of your most recent CV to be considered.