SEN Teaching Assistant: Impactful Support & Growth

Teaching Vacancies; Derby; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Teacher’s Pension Scheme or local gov.

Training & professional development

Job summary

Teaching Vacancies is seeking a dedicated SEN Support Assistant to work with children with special educational needs, including autism and more complex needs. You will contribute to targeted interventions, monitor progress, and support effective communication with families.

You will collaborate with a caring team, adapt your communication approach to individual children, and be ready to undertake personal care duties when required, while upholding dignity and safety.

Qualifications

• Experience or knowledge of working with children with special educational needs, esp. autism and complex needs
• Knowledge of supporting children with speech, language and communication difficulties
• Experience delivering targeted interventions (e.g., attention autism)
• Able to work effectively as part of a team
• Flexible in communication to meet individual child needs and build relationships with parents
• Familiar with Education Health Care Plans and following targets/provision or open to training
• Can monitor and contribute to assessment and recording of development
• Adaptive and proactive in supporting the child and others in class
• Experience delivering planned interventions and monitoring progress
• Confident teaching individual pupils and small groups to accelerate progress
• Understands behaviour as communication; uses relational and nurturing approaches
• Willing to undertake personal care tasks including nappies, toileting, intimate care and hygiene, essential for role
• Committed to promoting dignity, privacy, safety and independence in personal care
• Willing to training to support pupils with complex physical/medical needs (moving, handling, mobility, positioning, medical care)
• Patient, resilient, empathetic and responsive to changing needs of children

Responsibilities

• Support children with complex needs and implement planned interventions
• Contribute to monitoring and recording children’s development and share information
• Work collaboratively with staff to meet individual education and care needs
• Provide personal care and assist with mobility and hygiene when required
• Adapt communication to meet the needs of each child and involve parents in progress updates
• Deliver targeted interventions to accelerate progress for individuals and groups
• Support behavioural strategies using a relational and nurturing approach
• Attend training to support pupils with physical and medical needs as required

Skills

SEN experience

Autism awareness

Team player

Flexible communication

Parent liaison

EHC plan knowledge

Assessment & recording

Personal care

Moving & handling training

Patience & resilience

Job description

Teaching Vacancies is seeking a dedicated SEN Support Assistant to work with children with special educational needs, including autism and more complex needs. You will contribute to targeted interventions, monitor progress, and support effective communication with families.

You will collaborate with a caring team, adapt your communication approach to individual children, and be ready to undertake personal care duties when required, while upholding dignity and safety.