SEN Learning Support Assistant

Protocol Education Limited; Patchway; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

Protocol Education Limited is seeking a full-time SEN Learning Partner to join a specialist primary resource base in North Bristol.

You will work with children with SEN and emotional/behavioural needs, providing consistent support while building strong relationships with learners and staff. Previous school experience isn’t essential, but safeguarding training and DBS checks are required.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting children with SEN or mental health needs.
• Ability to build trusting relationships and provide consistent support.
• Willingness to undertake safeguarding training and DBS checks.

Responsibilities

• Support children with SEN in class and small-group settings.
• Foster emotional regulation and engagement with learning.
• Collaborate with teachers and support staff to plan activities.

Skills

Empathy

Communication

Behaviour management

Teamwork

Crisis de-escalation

Job description

Have you worked in care, support work, youth work, coaching or mental health and considered using your experience to support children in education?

We're looking for a full-time SEN Learning Partner to join a specialist primary resource base in North Bristol.

Previous school experience is useful, but it's not the only experience we're interested in.

If you're used to supporting people with additional needs, managing challenging situations or building relationships with individuals who need consistency and reassurance, you could already have many of the skills required.

You’ll support children with:

• SEN and additional learning needs
• Social, emotional and mental health needs
• Emotional regulation
• Communication and interaction
• Challenging or distressed behaviour
• Independence and confidence
• Engagement with learning

We're particularly interested in people from backgrounds such as care, mental health, youth work, sports coaching, mentoring and support work.

You’ll be supported by experienced school staff while you develop your skills within specialist education.

All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role. Please see the FAQs on the Protocol Education website for further 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.

Protocol Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We undertake safeguarding checks on all workers in accordance with the 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 FREE online safeguarding and Prevent Duty training to all our workers. All candidates must undertake or have undertaken a valid enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and subscribe to the DBS Update Service.

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