Teaching Assistant

Get Staffed Online Recruitment Limited; Coventry; On-site; GBP 17,000 - 21,000; Full time

Job summary

Get Staffed Online Recruitment Limited is recruiting Teaching Assistants for a brand-new specialist school in Coventry to support learners with SEND.

You will deliver engaging learning experiences, build trusting relationships and support learners’ academic, social and emotional development. The role emphasises trauma-informed practice, inclusion and collaboration with families and external professionals.

Qualifications

• Passionate about improving outcomes for learners with additional needs.
• Experience with children or young people in education or care settings.
• Experience in sectors other than education that could enrich learners' life chances.
• Ability to build positive relationships and communicate effectively.
• Calm, resilient and solution-focused.
• High expectations with warmth and empathy.
• Flexible, creative and keen to learn.
• Understand inclusive and trauma-informed practice or willing to develop.
• Relevant professional experience enabling SEND teaching.
• Subject specialism welcomed to enrich curriculum.

Responsibilities

• Plan and deliver engaging lessons and activities.
• Adapt learning to meet diverse needs and abilities.
• Build trusting relationships with learners.
• Support behaviour and emotional regulation.
• Collaborate with colleagues, families and external professionals.
• Contribute to learner progress and wellbeing.
• Create safe, structured and motivating classrooms.
• Support enrichment, life skills and experiential learning.

Skills

Relationship building

Trauma-informed practice

Calm and resilient

Effective communication

Flexible and creative

Job description

Start Date: ASAP

Join the Founding Team of a New Specialist School

About the Roles

They are seeking Teaching Assistants who are passionate about supporting young people with SEND needs and bringing their experience to their specialist setting. They would be delighted to speak to you about how your experience may be used to support their learners.

Successful candidates will play a key role in delivering engaging learning experiences, building strong relationships and helping learners develop academically, socially and emotionally.

Key Responsibilities:

• Plan and deliver engaging, purposeful lessons and learning activities.
• Adapt learning to meet a wide range of needs and abilities.
• Build strong, consistent and trusting relationships with learners.
• Support behaviour and emotional regulation through trauma-informed approaches.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues, families and external professionals.
• Contribute to learner progress, personal development and wellbeing.
• Create safe, structured and motivating classroom environments.
• Support enrichment, life skills and experiential learning opportunities.

About You

They are looking for individuals who:

• Are passionate about improving outcomes for learners with additional needs.
• Have experience working with children or young people in education or care settings.
• Have relevant experience in sectors other than education that you could bring to their setting to enrich the experiences and life chances of their learners.
• Build positive relationships and communicate effectively.
• Are calm, resilient and solution focused.
• Have high expectations alongside warmth and empathy.
• Are flexible, creative and keen to learn.
• Understand inclusive and trauma-informed practice or are willing to develop this expertise.
• Hold relevant professional experience which would allow teaching of SEND students.
• Any subject specialism considered which would help them provide an enriching curriculum to their learners.

Why Join Our Client:

• Opportunity to join a brand-new school as part of the founding team.
• Work in a values-led, specialist environment.
• Extensive training and professional development opportunities.
• Pathways for career progression.
• Opportunity to shape a new provision from day one.
• Chance to make a genuine and lasting difference every day.

Pay:From £19,000 per annum - term time only (39 weeks)

Our client is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All appointments are subject to safer recruitment procedures, including enhanced DBS checks and satisfactory references.

PLEASE NOTE: Our client is unable to provide work visa sponsorship for individuals that do not currently have the right to work in the UK.