Teaching Assistant

SEN Teaching Assistant - North London

• Full-time and long term contract with opportunity for permanent
• Autism support
• Looking for someone caring, nurturing, supportive
• Brand new Schools site and facilities
• Friendly staff team!
• Primary key stages
• North London with great transport links

A successful SEN School in North London have a vacancy for a Special Needs Teaching Assistant to support Autism.

SEN Teaching Assistant - North London / The School:

The successful School on a brand new site, provides students with Special Needs aged 5 - 11 years with access to education through a highly differentiated curriculum, intervention and support. Students at this School have a primary diagnosis of Autism and many have other associated SEN needs such as ADHD, ODD and SLCN. A large majority of the pupils are non-verbal.

The setup of the classes are small class sizes of a 1-4 ratio children to adult and each class has a Teacher and multiple TA's. The staff are passionate individuals who work collaboratively to offer the best and most flexible teaching methods for their students. They understand that each and every student comes with a different set of challenges and only after careful planning and building relationships with these pupils will they see progress and success with students hitting relevant targets in their learning and social development.

This is a training School who provide immense training and development to its staff, promote from within and can boast a highly supportive and positive working environment.

SEN Teaching Assistant - North London / The role:

As a Teaching Assistant for Key Stage 1/2 pupils with Autism, you will be required to support the Class Teacher in delivering tailored education programmes. You will be a calm and resilient personality, able to remain calm in stressful situations and deescalate challenging behaviour. You must have a sound understanding of Autism - behaviours, triggers, sensory learning, behaviour and teaching strategies. Someone who has made use of communication tools such as PECS and Makaton will be ideal for this role. Your ultimate goal is to help pupils break down barriers they have to learning and achieve every day!

The rewards are endless when you are successful in this educational setting and for the right candidate, the School also has generous funding for this role.

If you have worked with or are interested in working with Autistic pupils in Schools and are based in or can get to North London, then please apply below.

Reeson Education:

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Please note that all daily/hourly rates quoted are inclusive of holiday pay at 12.07%