At a Glance
- Tasks: Support children with learning difficulties in a hands-on, varied role.
- Company: EmpowerED, a specialist SEND recruitment agency focused on people first.
- Benefits: Gain valuable experience in SEND and develop essential skills for your career.
- Other info: Great opportunity for career growth in education, therapy, or social care.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in young people's lives while building your future.
- Qualifications: Caring, patient, and resilient individuals with a passion for supporting others.
EmpowerED is recruiting for a Teaching Assistant in Bracknell to join a fantastic specialist SEND school supporting children and young people with severe and profound learning difficulties and complex additional needs. This Teaching Assistant role in Bracknell is a brilliant opportunity for someone who wants a genuinely varied and rewarding role where you'll help young people develop their communication, confidence, independence and essential life skills.
As a Teaching Assistant in Bracknell, you'll work as part of an experienced specialist classroom team, supporting pupils throughout their school day. This isn't simply a classroom-based role. Learning is highly personalised and could see you supporting everything from sensory activities and communication to PE, life skills and accessing the wider community.
Your day could include:
- Supporting pupils with severe and profound learning difficulties
- Providing 1:1 and small-group support
- Helping pupils access sensory circuits and sensory-based learning
- Supporting communication and interaction
- Encouraging independence and essential life skills
- Supporting pupils with emotional and sensory regulation
- Helping pupils access PE and physical activities
- Supporting personal care where required
- Accompanying pupils on community activities, trips and off-site learning
- Using positive behaviour approaches to support pupils when they become dysregulated
- Working closely with teachers, therapists and other specialist professionals
This Teaching Assistant vacancy in Bracknell is within a specialist environment where education is about much more than academic progress. The school's personalised curriculum places pupils' EHCP outcomes at its centre and focuses on communication, academics, life skills, employability, nurture, therapies and social development. As a Teaching Assistant, you'll play an important part in helping pupils make progress in the areas that matter most to their individual lives.
For this Teaching Assistant role in Bracknell, we're looking for someone who is caring, engaging, patient, resilient and positive. Previous specialist school experience would be fantastic, but we're also interested in people with transferable experience from areas such as: SEND, Care, Learning Disabilities, Autism Support, PMLD, Support Work, Early Years, Youth Work, Mental Health, Residential Care.
You'll need to be comfortable working in a hands-on environment and understand that pupils may require support with communication, behaviour, physical needs and personal care. Most importantly, you'll need to genuinely enjoy working with children and young people and be able to celebrate progress in all its forms.
Working as a Teaching Assistant at this specialist school in Bracknell will give you fantastic hands-on experience within SEND. You'll be supporting pupils through a personalised curriculum designed to help them become as independent as possible, while developing your own experience across complex needs, communication, sensory regulation, behaviour and life-skills education. It's an excellent opportunity for someone looking to build a longer-term career within SEND, specialist teaching, therapy, psychology, nursing, social care or education.
If you're already working as a SEND Teaching Assistant in Bracknell and looking for your next opportunity, we'd love to speak to you. Equally, if you're currently working within care, support work or another people-focused role and would like to explore becoming a Teaching Assistant in Bracknell, we'd really like to hear from you. Apply today or contact EmpowerED for an informal conversation about the role.
EmpowerED is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All successful applicants will be subject to our full safeguarding and compliance process, including an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references.
Teaching Assistant in Bracknell employer: Empowered
EmpowerED is an exceptional employer, offering a supportive and inclusive work culture that prioritises the professional growth of its staff. Located in Reading, the specialist primary school provides ongoing training and development opportunities, ensuring that every SEN Teaching Assistant can make a meaningful impact on the lives of children with SEMH needs. With a strong emphasis on collaboration and a commitment to creating a nurturing environment, EmpowerED stands out as a rewarding place to work for those passionate about education.
