SEND Teaching Assistant

Ridgeway Infant School; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 19,000 - 23,000; Part time

Job summary

Ridgeway Infant School is seeking a compassionate assistant to support children with special educational needs, including autism and complex presentations. You will work as part of a team, delivering targeted interventions and monitoring progress, with a strong focus on building trusted relationships with families and maintaining pupils’ dignity and safety.

You should be flexible in your communication, willing to undertake personal care when required, and prepared to engage in training to

Qualifications

• Experience with children with SEND, especially autism and complex needs.
• Knowledge of supporting speech, language and communication difficulties.
• Experience delivering targeted interventions (e.g., attention autism).
• Works well in a team and shares responsibilities.
• Flexible communication to meet each child's needs and engage parents.
• Familiar with Education Health Care Plans and targets.
• Able to monitor development and contribute to records.
• Adaptive, proactive, and able to support others in class.
• Confident teaching individual pupils and small groups.
• Willing to undertake personal care (toileting, hygiene) as required.
• Committed to dignity, privacy, safety and independence.

Skills

Experience with SEND

Speech & language support

Targeted interventions

Teamwork

Flexible communication

EHCP familiarity

Assessments & records

Adaptive & proactive

Individual/small group teaching

Personal care duties

Dignity, privacy & safety

Willing to training for medical needs

Job description

We are looking forsomeone who:

• Hasrecent experience or knowledge of working with children with specialeducational needs, particularly those with autism and more complex needs
• Hasa knowledge and understanding of supporting children with speech, language andcommunication difficulties
• Hasexperience of delivering targeted intervention such as attention autism
• Workseffectively as a part of a team
• Isflexible in their communication approach to meet the needs of the child indifferent situations and is committed to building strong relationships withparents
• Isfamiliar with working with Education Health Care Plans and following targetsand provision or open to training
• Canmonitor and contribute to the assessment and recording of children’sdevelopment and be involved in the sharing of this information
• Isadaptive and uses their time proactively to support the child they are workingwith and others within the class
• Hasknowledge and experience of delivering planned interventions and monitoringprogress
• Isconfident teaching individual pupils and small groups to accelerate progress
• Understandsbehaviour is communication and is confident using a relational and nurturingapproach
• Iswilling and confident to undertake all aspects of personal care, includingnappy changing, toileting, intimate care and supporting children's personalhygiene. This is an essential requirement of the role.
• Iscommitted to promoting children's dignity, privacy, safety and independencewhen providing personal care.
• Iswilling to undertake appropriate training to support pupils with complexphysical and medical needs, which may include moving and handling, mobility,positioning and specific medical care procedures, should the needs of pupilsattending the school require this.
• Ispatient, resilient, empathetic and able to respond positively to the changingand sometimes challenging needs of individual children.