SEND Teaching Assistant - Philosophy Education Ltd : Job Details

• SEND Teaching Assistant
• SEND Unit attached to Mainstream Primary School      
• Wimbledon
• Full-time contract
• Start date: September 2024

Are you a specialist SEND Teaching Assistant with experience supporting children with severe and complex learning difficulties? Are you looking for a new role in September? 

The Provision is an additionally resourced provision for children with autism within a mainstream school, a vibrant and rapidly-improved school in Raynes Park. Due to the acute shortage of specialist places, the Additional Resourced Provision is expanding over the next year and will become the largest specialist base within a mainstream school in South West London. They are therefore looking for an Teaching Assistant to join our team as part of this exciting journey. The School invest in their staff and can offer a range of CPD opportunities, with support and coaching from their internal specialist as well as external, specialist professionals.

The Role

In this role you will be working with a small class of pupils all of who have autism. You will be working with various pupils on a 1 to 1 basis and providing all round care and learning support for the class. You should have an understanding of working with children with special needs from previous roles and have a true passion for supporting pupils to succeed in all areas of learning. You will be directed by the class teacher who is highly-experienced and you will be involved in supporting some children whilst they have additional intervention sessions from the internal team of therapists employed within the school. You will have access to a vast range of CPD courses with other staff and individually.

The school are looking for a positive and enthusiastic SEND Teaching Assistant with a real passion for supporting pupils to reach their potential.

This role is offered on a full-time contract basis starting in September 2024.

The School:

The Provision is an additionally resourced provision for children with autism within a mainstream school, a vibrant and rapidly-improved school in Raynes Park. Due to the acute shortage of specialist places, the Additional Resourced Provision is expanding over the next year and will become the largest specialist base within a mainstream school in South West London. They are therefore looking for a Teaching Assistant to join their team as part of this exciting journey. The school invest in their staff and can offer a range of CPD opportunities, with support and coaching from their internal specialist as well as external, specialist professionals.

The curriculum is designed to provide support in core subjects and foundation subjects. They use a topic-based approach to engage children and keep them motivated and develop independent skills.  The teaching method in the school is based on Attention Autism Approach. They are taught this method from Early Years Level and then adapted throughout the age groups. Attention is also paid to the social and emotional development through life skills sessions, where they incorporate zone of regulation and social thinking into daily activities with the students. Students also attend weekly recreational activities such as, Swimming, horse riding and creative art lessons as part of a varied curriculum.  

If you have the right experience and a desire to truly support children with learning disabilities, please apply with an up-to-date CV.

We have a policy to respond to all applications within three working days. However, because of the volume of applications, we are sometimes unable to reply to individual enquiries. If we have not contacted you within this specified time your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. Philosophy Education is a Recruitment Business and is advertising this vacancy on behalf of one of its clients.