Special Needs Teaching Assistant

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Starfyn Education work exclusively with Special Needs Schools, Colleges and Provisions across London, Surrey and Hampshire – Assisting schools with their temporary recruitment needs.
We work with children and young people aged between 4 and 19 years of age, The Special Needs Schools, Colleges and Provisions we work with cater for those with complex learning difficulties including autism and other sensory impairments, some children have challenging behaviours.
Working within Special Needs can be extremely rewarding, but equally challenging working with pupils that may have suffered significant trauma and require help with personal care To be considered to work with us within Special Educational Needs experience of working within a School, College or Provision would be desirable. However, many candidates we help find work do not have any experience – they do however have some of the following:
– Child Care Experience – either personal or professionally
– Special needs experience – either via family, friends or professionally
– Good interpersonal and communication skills and a caring attitude
– An undergraduate degree, and/or prior experience working alongside pupils with SEND
– Good general education levels in English and Maths
– Flexibility in terms of working patterns
– A willingness to learn and an enthusiastic approach

Your main duties will include:
– Offer support for students before, during and after lessons
– Assist students to understand and participate in set tasks
– Help promote each students love of learning
– Join team meetings and training programmes as an active member of a team
– Follow regulations pertaining to safeguarding
– Where required, supporting individual needs including assisting with a wide range of medical and occasionally personal care tasks as necessary and providing physical support where needed (training will be provided in giving medical care and support)
– inspiring and engaging with children with a range of additional learning needs
– working on a 1:1 to or group basis to support learning
– assisting with the personal care needs of pupils; this may include feeding, changing and manual handling (training provided by the school/college)

Starfyn Recruitment is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to satisfactory references, online checks, preemployment and Disclosure Barring Service checks. The possession of a criminal record will not necessarily prevent an applicant from obtaining this post, as all cases are judged individually according to the nature of the role and information provided.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to
declare any cautions, convictions, reprimands and final warnings that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013, 2020 and 2023).

All candidates applying must act in accordance with school policies and procedures and relevant legislation particularly in relation to safeguarding and behaviour support

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Application process: Contact your advisor to check you meet the requirements of the role. If suitable, they will ask you to send them an up to date copy of your CV tailored to this role.