SEN Learning Support Assistant. Job in Mitcham Education & Training Jobs

Are you an experienced SEN/ASD Teaching Assistant with a passion to make a difference to children who have ASD? TLTP are looking for an experienced SEN/ASD TA for an SEN School based in Mitcham, Surrey. The school is committed to the development and delivery of high quality relationships with families and local community organisations to ensure that the children attending the school achieve their full potential and become respected and active members of the local community.

The Position will include:

• Working with Primary students with ASD & Learning Difficulties
• Working with children with ASD, ADHD, bright and very capable
• Providing personal care to students when/if needed
• Using visual aids to communicate with students
• One to one or small groups

Requirements:

• Available to start ASAP
• Experience of working with Children or Care background

The school offers:

• A committed and enthusiastic staff
• Quality professional development
• An exciting opportunity to shape the future of the school and to set the culture for achievement and progress for all of the pupils
• Purposeful, happy and supportive environment with learning for all at its centre

Please only apply if you want to work in a specialist SEN school and have some experience in the below:

• Experience working with ASD/SEN/MLD/SLD
• Ideally experience in PECS or MAKATON
• Want to work in a challenging/nurturing environment
• Passion for working with children with ASD and ADHD

This special needs teaching assistant role will be supporting secondary children with Autism and complex needs. Special needs teaching assistants will need excellent behaviour management skills, be able to build positive relationships with young people and staff, and have good knowledge/experience working with children with ASD/complex needs within a special needs environment.

Special needs experience working with secondary 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, and working closely with parents and guardians.

Organising learning outside the classroom in activities such as community visits, school outings or sporting events. Special needs teaching assistants will need to assist in severely disabled pupils' personal care/medical needs, administration, including updating and maintaining records of pupils' progress, and attending statutory annual reviews or other related meetings, such as Looked After Child (LAC) reviews, regarding students with a SEN, which may involve reviewing Education, Health and Care (EHC) plans. Receiving in-service training and behaviour management.

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.