Teaching Assistant SEMH - Suffolk - Full-time - 5 days a week-

SENCare Recruitment-are currently recruiting for an Teaching Assistant SEMH-to work in a Specialist school-based in Suffolk.

About us:-

SENCare Recruitment-is a niche recruitment agency that provides Special Educational Needs (SEN) professionals for SEN schools, mainstream schools, residential care homes and 1-1 home support through local authorities, across the UK.- We offer short/long term placements on a temporary and permanent basis for specialist SEN teachers, teaching assistants, support workers, social workers, VI/HI practitioners and mid-day meal supervisors

Job title: Teaching Assistant SEMH

Start:-ASAP

Hours:-8:30am-4:00pm - Mon Fri

The school caters-for children aged 7 - 18 years old whose social, emotional or mental health needs or autism spectrum condition (ASC) has made it difficult for them to achieve success in a mainstream school.-

The role will consist with doing 1:1 support-for pupils within a classroom setting and also small groups of-3-4 pupils alongside the classroom teacher.

We are looking for potential candidates that-have experience with children or young adults with social, emotional difficulties, mental health needs, behavioural difficulties or ADHD.

The ideal candidate will

• Have at least 6 month experience with supporting pupils with social, emotional needs and mental health needs-
• Have a clear DBS registered to the update service-
• Be available Monday-Friday - 5 days a week
• Be restraint trained i.e Team Teach or Price training (Desirable)
• Be empathetic and calm natured-
• Be academically strong with Literacy and Numeracy-

Main duties -

• To work under the guidance of the SEMH Teacher in supporting individuals or small groups in targeted interventions-
• Build and maintain positive relationships with the pupils-
• 1:1 classroom support-
• Managing challenging behaviour-
• To assist with development and implementation of EHCPs/IEP''s/Provision maps as appropriate
• To support pupils consistently with recognising and responding to their individual needs
• To encourage pupils to interact and work co operatively with others and engage all pupil in activities
• To determine the need for, prepare and maintain general and specialist and equipment and resources-
• To be responsible for keeping and updating records as agreed with the teacher, contributing to the review of systems/records as requested

If you feel this would be the ideal vacancy for you, then please apply below or contact our team direct and ask for John Stokes-@ SENCare Recruitment.

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