SEND Teaching Assistant

Role: SEND Teaching Assistant

Start: February 2025

Salary: From £14.45 per hour 

Are you passionate about supporting children with special educational needs? We are looking for dedicated and compassionate SEND Teaching Assistants to join a specialist educational setting that provides a nurturing environment for learners with high levels of anxiety, autism and specific learning difficulties.

This school takes great pride in fostering independence, creativity and confidence, ensuring that each student’s strengths and talents are recognised and developed. If you’re eager to make a meaningful impact, this is an exciting opportunity to be part of a supportive and inclusive team.

About the role:

As a SEN Teaching Assistant, you will:

• Work closely with class teachers to support children with Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs), tailored learning to their individual needs
• Provide one-to-one and small group support, ensuring students can fully engage with the curriculum
• Foster students’ independence, self confidence and social skills, helping them to thrive both academically and personally
• Create a safe, structured and encouraging learning environment where students feel valued and supported

What we’re looking for:

• Passion: Enthusiastic and committed to supporting children’s education and wellbeing 
• Adaptability: Flexible and patient when working with children of different abilities and needs
• Skills: Strong communication and subject knowledge to engage and support learners
• Experience: Prior work with children or vulnerable people is essential

We would love to hear from candidates who are seeking full time, part-time or flexible supply work. You will be working Monday to Friday, during term time only. 

Working with Long-term Teachers:

We are an independent agency working with Nurseries, Primary, Secondary and Special Schools. 

LTT was founded with the aim of creating a genuine, transparent and straightforward service to help candidates secure their next role. We place a huge emphasis on delivering an exceptional service where you will be supported, listened to and valued throughout.

Your dedicated consultant will invest time to understand your experience, skill-set and what your ideal role looks like. You will have frequent updates with your progress through compliance, applications for specific roles as well as receiving additional information on roles which we feel may be of interest to you. 

We are proud members of the REC and we have the highest standard of compliance. Working with us means you will get the very best support and guidance through the clearance process from your own specific point of contact from our in-house compliance team.

In addition you will receive: 

• Guarantee Pay Scheme opportunities
• Permanent job roles
• Support and advice during the clearance and onboarding process
• Working to Agency Workers Regulations
• Interview preparation, advice and support
• Statutory employment rights, such as; sick pay, holiday pay, maternity and paternity pay