Job details

SEN Teaching Assistant/ Learning mentor

Salary - £23,500-£27,600 dependant on experience - Term time only

Start date: 15/04/2024

Working hours- 08:40-16:45

Your new school

We are currently working with this sector, leading setting to support them in the recruitment of learning mentors to work within the school environment to ensure the young people are accessing learning and making progress . This independent special school offers support to children aged 4-19 with Autism, extra learning difficulties and challenging behaviour. The schools aim is to ‘improve the life chances of our pupils through education and learning’. This school offers high staffing ratios with every pupil being supported on a 1:1 basis as a minimum.

Your new role

• Support inclusion for children and young people through experiences in other schools, colleges and work experience schemes.
• Support educational visits, including residential visits as appropriate to meet the needs and interests of the children and young people in the class.
• Work with other members of the team to create classroom and corridor displays that celebrate progress and support learning.
• Contribute to behavioural assessments, including functional assessments.
• Contribute to the planning and development of comprehensive function based Positive Behaviour Support Plans and interventions, monitoring the effectiveness of plans through monitoring your key child’s data collection systems and analysis of the data. Flagging any issues or concerns to the trans-disciplinary team.

In order to be successful in this role:

You will need:

• GCSE English and Maths (or equivalent)
• Experience working with children or young people in a professional manner, either inside or outside of the classroom
• SEN Experience
• Proven ability to solve problems quickly and remain calm in a crisis situation
• The ability to work as part of a team
• Enhanced DBS or willingness to get one.

In return, you will get

• A Competitive Salary – £23,539 - £27,563
• Term Time only working.
• Working Monday – Friday
• Ongoing CPD and Career Development

What you need to do now

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