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Job Posted: 24 days ago

Salary: £ 92 - 110 / Day
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Southend-on-Sea

Expire in: 4 days

Job Description

SEN Teaching Assistant – MLD/SLD Support – Southend-on-Sea Full-time - Flexible start date!

Are you passionate about supporting children and young people with Moderate or Severe Learning Difficulties? If you have a care or early years background, this is an incredible opportunity to bring your skills into a specialist school setting in Southend-on-Sea. Make a real difference while developing your career in SEN. This role 

About the Role

You will work as part of a supportive team to help pupils with MLD and SLD thrive in a structured, inclusive environment. Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

Providing 1:1 and small-group support tailored to individual learning needs
Assisting pupils with daily living skills, communication, and social interaction
Adapting lessons and learning activities to suit different abilities
Supporting pupils to manage behaviour, emotions, and sensory needs
Building positive, trusting relationships to encourage confidence and independence
This is a hands-on role where your care experience or early years expertise will have an immediate impact.

Who We’re Looking For

We welcome candidates from care, early years, or similar backgrounds who are ready to make a difference in SEN. You should be:

Experienced or eager to work with pupils with MLD and SLD
Patient, adaptable, and resilient
Able to communicate effectively and work collaboratively within a team
Committed to supporting the learning, wellbeing, and independence of young people
Available full-time, 8:00am–4:00pm
No formal SEN experience is required — your care or early years experience is highly valued and transferable.

Why Apply Through Teaching Personnel?

Teaching Personnel work in partnership with the schools within Southend to supply quality staff for them to develop their career within the school.

What Teaching Personnel Offer:

 Competitive pay rates and benefits.

 Opportunities for professional development and training.

A dedicated consultant to you on call 24/7

Kindly note – Please only apply for this role if you are a resident of the UK or if recently moved hold a police clearance check from the country you have left from!

If this position sounds interesting to you and you’d like more information, please give me a call on (phone number removed) OR email me on 

We cover areas such as Chelmsford, Basildon, Wickford, Southend, Benfleet, Brentwood, Colchester and more!!!

All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role. Please see the FAQ’s on the Teaching Personnel website for details.

All pay rates quoted will be inclusive of 12.07% statutory holiday pay. This advert is for a temporary position. In some cases, the option to make this role permanent may become available at a later date.

Teaching Personnel is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We undertake safeguarding checks on all workers in accordance with DfE statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ this may also include an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted applicants.

We offer all our registered candidates FREE child protection and prevent duty training. All candidates must undertake or have undertaken a valid enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Full assistance provided.

For details of our privacy policy, please visit the Teaching Personnel website

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Bank details.
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Date of birth.

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