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ROLE: Special Educational Needs Teaching Assistant

LOCATION: Wakefield  

START DATE: ASAP

Do you have experience working with SEN children and young people?

We are seeking caring, empathetic individuals who are passionate about supporting children with learning difficulties to excel in their education. 

As a SEN Teaching Assistant, you will support small groups of students and provide 1:1 support where required in the SEN Department of a Mainstream school.

Responsibilities:

Providing emotional, social, and practical support to students with a range of social, emotional, learning, and behavioural needs
Developing and implementing pastoral care plans for students 
Working with students in the SEN department and within mainstream lessons.
The ideal candidate will:

Have experience working with children and young people in a pastoral/behavioural support role.
Be confident working independently and as part of a wider team. 
Have the patience and confidence to de-escalate situations and manage challenging behaviour.
Have knowledge of special educational needs.
Be available full time (Monday – Friday 8:30am – 3pm).
If you want to make a difference and support children and young people in an education setting, APPLY NOW or speak to one of our consultants on (phone number removed). 

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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