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Teaching assistant
Job Posted: 2 days ago
Salary: £ 85 - 95 / Day
Job Type: Temporary
Location: Shepton Mallet
Expire in: a month
Job Description
Teaching Assistant
Five Education are recruiting a Teaching Assistant for a special school in Shepton Mallet. The role is to support identified pupils with Special Education Needs (SEN) and/ or mental health challenges. This work will be supporting pupils 1:1 or in small groups.
Previous experience in supporting individuals with SEND such as Autism and an ability to manage challenging behaviour is desirable. The right person for this role will be kind, compassionate, patient and resilient.
The role will involve:
- Assisting pupils throughout the day, helping them to remain focussed and on task.
- Guide the pupils when they are struggling, and help them to become regulated and calm.
Who We're Looking For:
- Emotionally resilient and able to stay calm in challenging situations
- Strong communicator with a positive and proactive mindset
- Able to build rapport with young people, particularly those who may struggle to trust adults
- Previous experience isn't essential, but backgrounds in youth work, care, mental health, sport, or support work are valuable
Why Join Five Education?
- A supportive consultant who will help find the right school for you
- Ongoing behaviour support training and CPD
- Opportunity to progress into a permanent role
- Free, high-quality SEND and behaviour management training throughout the year
Your daily rate of pay would be £89.66* but with a potential to earn more based on your level of experience.
*Including holiday pay
Pay: Five Education operates a PAYE payroll; this is the most transparent way to be paid with no hidden fees such as admin fee or employers NI. Please note pay rate is for illustration and does include holiday pay.
DBS: If you do not have a non-voluntary enhanced DBS on the update service, we will need to process a new one at a cost of £62.70. This will be refunded after 20 days of work, providing you have put the new DBS on the update service.
Vetting: Five Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all of the staff we employ to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be required to undergo checks including reference checks, TRA checks and will need to have a DBS; there will also be a face-to-face interview.
We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as they are currently under-represented at this level.
Full-time availability is preferred, but part-time work is also possible.
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