PMLD Teaching Assistant – Complex Needs
Location: Morpeth
Job Type: Full Time, Term Time Only
Pay: £98–£120 per day
Start: As soon as available
This Isn't Just a Teaching Assistant Role
Working with pupils with profound and multiple learning difficulties requires patience, consistency and a genuinely person-centred approach.
Protocol Education is recruiting a PMLD Teaching Assistant to join a specialist school in Morpeth, supporting pupils with a range of complex learning, physical, sensory and communication needs.
Your Day Could Include:
- Providing dedicated 1:1 support
- Supporting pupils during lessons
- Encouraging communication and interaction
- Supporting sensory exploration
- Helping pupils develop independence
- Supporting mobility and physical activities
- Providing personal care where required
- Using individual communication strategies
- Supporting emotional wellbeing
- Working with teachers and other professionals
Who Could Apply?
This role could suit experienced:
- PMLD Teaching Assistants
- SEND Teaching Assistants
- Support Workers
- Healthcare Assistants
- Care Workers
- Residential Support Workers
- Learning Disability Support Workers
Experience with complex needs is highly desirable, but we're also interested in people with the right attitude and transferable skills.
You Should Be:
Patient. Compassionate. Resilient. Reliable. Adaptable.
Most importantly, you should genuinely want to help pupils access opportunities, communicate and become as independent as possible.
What Protocol Education Offers
- £98–£120 per day
- Weekly PAYE payments
- FREE CPD and online training
- Dedicated education consultant
- Ongoing support
- Long-term and permanent opportunities
- £50 Refer a Friend bonus
All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role. Please see the FAQs on the Protocol Education website for further 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.
Protocol Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We undertake safeguarding checks on all workers in accordance with the 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 FREE online safeguarding and Prevent Duty training to all our workers. All candidates must undertake or have undertaken a valid enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and subscribe to the DBS Update Service.
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Contact Details:
Protocol Education Limited Recruitment Team
