SEMH Learning Support Assistant

SEMH Learning Support Assistant needed for an Alternative Provision. Do you have a background in SEMH, SEBD or ASD? Have you had experience with challenging behaviour? Do you have Team Teach or MAPA training? Have you covered lessons? Experience tutoring or teaching small groups?

This specialist school based in West Drayton is looking for a special needs SEMH Learning Support Assistant with experience of working with challenging children and young people. This is a specialist SEMH School that caters for young people who have been excluded or are at risk of being excluded from a mainstream school.

The successful behaviour mentor will have the opportunity to work in this outstanding school with an international reputation in special education expertise, curriculum and resources. Behaviour mentors must have experience working with mental health problems and complex behaviours. This school believes that all young people should be provided with appropriate education in a safe, stable, containing learning environment.

As a behaviour mentor, you will be working with secondary aged pupils who have SEMD, SEBD troubled behaviour. Some students are academic and they range from KS1-KS5. You are given opportunities to succeed through the use of highly personalised individual education plans to help support their students. This role starts in September.

Behaviour mentors will need:

• Excellent behaviour management skills
• Ability to build positive relationships with young people and staff
• Experience teaching/covering a range of lessons when needed
• Good knowledge/experience working with children with SEMH within a special needs environment
• Experience working with secondary aged pupils
• Collaboration with the classroom teacher to define appropriate activities for the pupils in relation to the curriculum
• Assessment of children who have long or short-term learning difficulties and working with colleagues to identify individual pupils' special needs
• Liaison with other professionals, such as social workers, speech and language therapists, physiotherapists and educational psychologists

This is a full time/long term position and will lead to permanent if successful.

Skills and experience required are as follows:

• SEN EBD Mental Health experience
• ASD
• Excellent behaviour management
• Current Child & Adult DBS on the update service
• Classroom experience
• Working with primary or secondary
• Experience teaching a range of subjects

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.
• A purposeful, happy and supportive environment with learning for all at its centre.

If you engage the students in a positive way, this will be a very satisfying role, which would look great on your CV.

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