Educational Support Assistant

Teaching Personnel; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 17,000 - 23,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading educational organization is seeking enthusiastic and adaptable Teaching Assistants to work in a local SEN school in Cardiff. The role involves supporting pupils with ASD and behavioural needs, making it essential for candidates to have relevant experience. Successful candidates will help ensure that pupils are engaged and participating in their learning activities, as well as assist in personal care when necessary. This temporary role may have the potential for permanence.

Benefits

Free child protection training

Full assistance with DBS checks

Qualifications

• Experience with ASD and behavioural needs is highly valued.
• Must understand the developmental needs of children.
• Willingness to engage in training and preparation for the role.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring pupils are engaging in all sessions.
• Assist in personal care tasks as needed.
• Plan and implement techniques for dealing with challenging behaviour.

Skills

Patient

Adaptability

Behaviour Management

Communication

Education

Enhanced DBS

Registration with EWC

Job description

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We are looking for enthusiastic and adaptable teaching assistants to join teaching personnel to work in a local SEN school. The school caters for pupils from age 7-19 with ASD and behavioural needs so experience personally or professionally would give you a great head start!

We are mainly looking for staff to join and are comfortable in the secondary area of the school, so being comfortable with that age group would be essential. You could either be allocated a small group or a 1-to-1 pupil, so you need to be comfortable working different group sizes and comfortable building a rapport with them.

Due to the needs of the pupils the school love having staff who can commit to long-term vacancies which helps the pupils gain familiarity and routine with the teachers they have.

Responsibilities of a Support Assistant are:

• Ensuring pupils are engaging in all sessions.
• Assist in personal care tasks as an when if needed e.g. toileting and feeding.
• To plan and implement appropriate techniques to deal with challenging behaviour in pupils where appropriate.
• To take part in relevant training and courses as required.

Requirements and qualifications

• Enhanced DBS and registration with the EWC (Education Workforce Council)
• Understands the development needs of children and those with disability/challenging behaviour.

We will give you the training and preparation for the position so if you are interested in joining Teaching Personnel please apply below and we can have a call to discuss the role and next steps.

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.
Teaching Personnel is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We undertake safeguarding checks on all workers in accordance with DfE statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ this may also include an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted applicants.
We offer all our registered candidates FREE child protection and prevent duty training. All candidates must undertake or have undertaken a valid enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Full assistance provided.
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