Specialist Teaching Assistant

Pay: £12.84 per hour / £83.34 per day

Full time: 8:30 – 3:30, Monday – Friday

Contract: Temporary, with the potential of a permanent contract offer (performance dependant)

Start date: ASAP

At Teaching Personnel, we are the market leaders in education to provide additional support to schools in the local area across South Wales. We are proud to be working with a school within Newport, which specialise in supporting young people with additional learning needs. We are currently looking for 2 Teaching Assistants to start as soon as possible to work on a full time capacity to support a range of pupils on both a 1:1 and small group setting.

The young people are aged 3 – 19 and have a range of additional needs. This can include Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties (PMLD), Complex Medical Needs and Severe learnings difficulties. Due to the nature of the young peoples needs, we will need an experienced individual which is passionate about working in the Education Sector.

The following training would be advantageous: (This list is not exhaustive)

-          Manual handling training

-          Team Teach Training (Or other de-escalation training)

-          Medical administration training

-          Personal Care Trained

-          Communication aid training e.g. Sign along, Makaton, PECS etc

What benefits do I get with Teaching Personnel?

-          Market Leader for Education in South Wales

-          Access to Study skills which offers hundreds of online courses to enhance your knowledge prior to going into a classroom environment. This is either free or highly subsidised by Teaching Personnel

-          A consultant which is dedicated to you from day 1

-          Termly additional courses run in person such as Team Teach and Cover Supervisor Training

If this sounds like something you would like to consider, please send over your CV for shortlisting. We will contact you within 48 hours of your application.

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.
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