Are you experienced or qualified in supporting children and young adults?

Does a Special Educational Needs Teaching Assistant role sound interesting to you? Are you located in Leicester?

We have a rewarding opportunity to work as a Special Educational Needs Teaching Assistant within outstanding schools and units in and around Leicester. You will initially be working on a supply basis, but there is the opportunity to apply for long term and permanent Special Educational Needs Teaching assistant roles within the settings.

Responsibilities include:
Preparation of lesson resources
Collaboration with classroom teacher to organise appropriate activities
Liaising with other professionals such as social workers,speech therapists and other Teaching assistants
Working with small groups of students and with students on a one to one basis
Providing personal care whilst maintaining dignity for the student
Providing support with feeding

Essential requirements:
Experience of working with young people with SEN needs
Comfortable in managing challenging behaviours and confident in your ability to control it
Ability to engage and build rapport with young people
Be creative, proactive and flexible in your supporting style
To be able to provide a nurturing and caring connection with vulnerable students
Resilience when faced with challenges, the ability to remain calm when faced with testing behaviours.
Primary or secondary curriculum experience as a Teaching assistant
Enhanced DBS on the update service (opportunity to prepare this with Randstad if not)

Benefits include:
Advice and editing on your current CV
Online e-learning training modules
Great market knowledge to match you to your perfect role
Dedicated consultant throughout your journey
Career advice
On call 24/7
Free Team teach training
Exclusive online services
Onsite parking
Holiday accruement
An allowance for flexibility
Opportunity to gain a vast amount of experience
Competitive rates of pay
Access to hundreds of discounts at major retailers through our app
Chance to receive £300* if you refer a friend
Opportunity for progression into permanent roles

Do you feel that this is a role you would relish and thrive in? Could you contribute to making a valid transformation to someone's future? Are you ready for a challenge? Did you answer yes? Apply today!

Randstad Education maintains the highest standard of child safety and compliance when placing candidates into schools. Successful candidates will be subject to the compliance process that also includes the Enhanced DBS check.