Additional Needs Support Assistant

Additional Needs Support Assistants Required

Full Time – Leeds based School

Are you currently looking for a role within Special Education?

Do you have previous experience of supporting people with Autism?

If so, we would love to hear from you.

At Career Teachers we are currently assisting a Specialist Setting in Leeds with their staffing needs and therefore require additional support assistants to start as soon as possible.

Job Description:

• To work with teachers as part of a professional team to support teaching and learning for pupils across the school who all have severe learning difficulties, profound and multiple learning difficulties, or autism.
• To provide specialist assistance to pupils who need help to overcome barriers to learning including sensory, behavioural, communication, medical or physical difficulties.
• To support other staff under the direction, guidance and supervision of the class teacher or learning support officer.
• Contribute to the safeguarding and promotion of the welfare and personal care of children and young people.

As a Support Assistant your duties are to:

• Implement planned individual or group learning activities and teaching programmes as agreed with the teacher, adjusting activities according to pupils’ responses as appropriate.
• Work with pupils on therapy or care programmes, designed by a therapists and care professionals.
• Participate in planning and evaluation of learning activities with the teacher, providing feedback to the teacher on pupil progress, achievements, responses and behaviour.
• Support the teacher in monitoring, assessing, and recording pupil progress/activities.
• Provide feedback to pupils in relation to attainment and progress under the guidance of the teacher.
• Support learning by arranging and providing resources for lessons/activities under the direction of the teacher.
• Share information about pupils with other staff, parents / carers, internal and external agencies, as appropriate.
• Attend to pupils’ personal needs including toileting, hygiene, dressing and eating, as well as help with social, welfare and health matters, reporting problems to the teacher as appropriate.
• Understand and support independent learning and inclusion of all pupils if required.

If you feel that your skillset matches the above job description, please click apply now and apply with an up to date CV and we will be in touch promptly.

At Career Teachers we are fully compliant with Agency Worker Regulations, ensuring you receive equal treatment for pay and conditions after a 12 week qualifying period. Please ask for further details.

All quoted rates are inclusive of 12.07% holiday pay.

Important Notice: In order for you to be successful in applying for the above position you should be eligible to work in the UK, or hold a relevant work visa. Safeguarding, quality and integrity are at the heart of what we do. During the application process you are required to:

– Attend an interview in person;

– Give details for us to complete Reference checks;

– Provide an Enhanced DBS disclosure

We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and young people within education. We have a policy, as a matter of courtesy, to respond to all applications within three working days. However, because of the volume of applications, we are sometimes unable to reply to individual enquiries. If we have not contacted you within this specified time your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion, we encourage you to please apply for any other position that you may see in the future. Thank you. Career Teachers is a Recruitment Business and is advertising this vacancy on behalf of one of its Clients.