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SEN Teaching Assistant

The Aurora-Group

Stoke-on-Trent

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Job summary

The Aurora-Group is seeking two SEN Teaching Assistants in Stoke-on-Trent to support children aged 6-19 with complex needs. The role involves creating a safe learning environment, assisting with care needs, and fostering independence. Candidates must have a passion for working with children, alongside relevant qualifications and experience in special educational needs.

Benefits

Training and Development opportunities

Competitive Pay and Enhanced Benefits

Perkbox discounts

UK Health Cash Plan

Employee Assistance Programme

Refer a friend for £1,000 reward

Qualifications

Experience with SEN is essential.
Full UK driving licence and access to your own car desirable.
Understanding of safeguarding principles and child protection procedures.

Responsibilities

Support children with learning and general wellbeing.
Establish caring relationships to promote safety and enjoyment.
Assist the class teacher in providing high quality educational activities.

Skills

Experience working with SEN in an employed or voluntary setting

Ability to adapt

Knowledge or experience of pupils with SEN or SEMH/ASD

Positive and creative in assisting to meet pupils’ individual needs

Education

GCSE Maths and English Level 2/C or above qualification

A recognised qualification at Level 2 or above in Support work for Teaching and Learning in Schools or an equivalent

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Location Bucknall, Stoke-on-Trent

Salary £12.37 - £13.49 per hour (£22,102.72 to £24,103.93 actual salary)

Hours 40 hours per week - Term Time Only

The Aurora Group

The Aurora Hanley School is an 'Outstanding' rated innovative provider of education and care, supporting young people aged 6 - 19 with complex needs typically related to Asperger’s Syndrome, Autism and other conditions.

We’re currently looking for two experienced SEN Teaching Assistants on a permanent contract

The Role / Key duties

As our new Teaching Assistant, your role is to support our children with their learning and general wellbeing to ensure every child has the best opportunity to reach their full potential in a caring and safe environment.

Where necessary this may include supporting with care needs from time to time as well as positive behaviour management adopting a tailored approach to the individual child.

You will be expected to establish a warm, caring and supportive relationship with pupils in order to support them feeling safe and enabling them to enjoy and learn during their time at the School, and to promote and encourage independence and personal development in pupils and maintain high expectations of behaviour at all times.

You will support the class teacher and contribute to providing high quality, challenging and differentiated educational activities and experiences through supporting the teaching of a broad and balanced curriculum aiming at pupils achieving their full potential in all areas of learning.

Like many SEN environments; your duties are likely to vary and therefore candidates will need to be flexible and be able to lend a hand whenever required.

Duties will vary, you must expect to diversify and lend a hand wherever is required. Please see the link below for our full job description

Job Description SEN Teaching Assistant

Skills and Qualifications

Successful candidates are likely to demonstrate

Experience working with SEN in an employed or voluntary setting
Full UK driving licence and access to your own car desirable
A recognised qualification at Level 2 or above in Support work for Teaching and Learning in Schools or an equivalentis desirable
GCSE Maths and English Level 2/C or above qualification is essential.
Understanding of the Safeguarding principles and Child Protection procedures.
Knowledge or experience of pupils with SEN or SEMH/ASD
Ability to adapt
The desire to put the child first and treat them as an individual
Be positive and creative in assisting to meet pupils’ individual needs

What’s on offer?

Training and Development

Within Aurora, we strongly believe that learning and development should not be limited to just the children and young people we support. We offer wide range of programmes and opportunities to all our employees to improve your skills and further your career.

Save money on your bills!!

With the cost of living rising we have a fantastic benefit through Perkbox to help with cutting costs and help make your money go further. Perkbox is a free app for you to use on the go wherever you are. You can get deals and discounts to save money on things like your weekly food bill, phone plans, internet, eating out, gym memberships, insurance and more. You can also use Perkbox for our cycle to work scheme and car scheme.

Competitive Pay and Reward

Every year we compare the market rates of pay and rewards to insure they are comparable or better to other similar organisations. We also offer Enhanced Annual Leave, Company Sick Pay, Enhanced Pension and Life Assurance.

UK Health Cash Plan

This plan can help cover your day to day healthcare expenditure such as optician and dental bills. You and your children are covered on this plan and you can also choose to upgrade and add a partner to enjoy the benefits with you.

Employee Assistance Programme

Your health and wellbeing is very important to us and we have support available on a wide variety of issues, helping you with online tools, information and via a freephone counselling service available 24/7.

Refer a friend for £1,000

We’ll reward you for recommending friends and family to come and join the company (*terms apply)

How to apply?

Please complete a full online application form. If you would like assistance in completing this application form or more information on this position please contact our Recruitment Partner, Karen Barnfield at karen.barnfield@the-aurora-group.com

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.

The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer.

This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled.

Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.

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