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Special needs teaching assistant needed in Walthamstow

Do you have a background in SEN, Complex needs, sensory needs or ASD? Have you had experience with challenging behaviour?

This specialist school based in Walthamstow is looking for a special needs teaching assistant with experience of working with challenging children and young people. This is a specialist SEN school that caters for Primary or secondary aged students with ASD, ADHD, Complex needs, and speech and language needs.

Special needs teaching assistants will have the opportunity to work in this outstanding school withan international reputation inspecial educationexpertise, curriculum and resources.

Special needs teaching assistants must have experience working with speech and language and complex SEN needs.

This school believes that all young people should be provided with appropriate education in a safe, stable, containing learning environment.

Special needs teaching assistant will be working with a primary aged pupils who has severe complex needs including attachment disorder. Students are academic and they range from mild learning difficulties to gifted and talented.

Special needs teaching assistants are given opportunities to succeed through the use of highly personalised individual education plans to help support their students.

The Therapeutic Education Department works closely with the nurses, doctors and therapists at the centre and with a wide range of professionals in the community.

This role startsASAP

Special needs teaching assistants will need excellent behaviour management skills

Be able to build positive relationships with young people and staff

Good knowledge/experience working with children with complex needs within an Special needs environment

Special needs teaching assistants will need experience working with secondary and primary aged pupils

Special needs teaching assistants will be collaborating with the classroom teacher to define appropriate activities for the pupils in relation to the curriculum

Assessing children who have long or short-term learning difficulties and working with colleagues to identify individual pupils' special needs

Liaising with other professionals, such as social workers, speech and language therapists, physiotherapists and educational psychologists

This is a full time/long termposition and will lead to permanent if successful. Skills and experience required are as follows:

SEN, complex needs

EBD

ASD

Personal care

Excellent behaviour management

Current DBS on the update service

SEN Classroom experience

Working with primary or secondary aged students

priorities are:

To help all our pupils enjoy learning and get as much fun out of life as they can

To identify what our pupils need to learn and challenge them all to make progress

To support all our pupils to communicate with other people

To help all our pupils develop their senses and their physical abilities

To encourage all our pupils to work and play alongside other people

To support our pupils to access facilities in their community

If you engage the students in a positive way, this will be a very satisfying role, which would look great on your CV.

Your application will be passed onto the client and if we do not contact you directly, your application was unsuccessful on this occasion.

TLTP Group is an Equal Opportunities employer. Subject to observance of all UK and EU current legislation we shall not discriminate to exclude individuals on the grounds of age, race, colour, gender (birth or reassigned), sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief, marital status, ethnic or national origin, health, pregnancy, childcare responsibilities or criminal records. Candidates from such groups are actively encouraged to apply.