Behaviour Support Assistant

Behaviour Support Assistant

Pay Scale: £90 – £100 per day

Start Date: October 2025

Location: Ackworth, Pontefract WF7

Full-time

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We are seeking an enthusiastic and committed professional to join us in the role of Behaviour Support Assistant Assistants in a Specialist SEND Secondary School in Ackworth. The school’s education programme is designed to provide pupils with the specialised support they need, going beyond what mainstream schools can offer.

This School’s Ackworth site is designed to support pupils in KS3, KS4 and KS5 with severe and complex learning difficulties, including autism and some challenging behaviours. The school has fantastic facilities, and it also accommodates students with additional medical, physical, or sensory impairments.

The site features 23 classrooms and specialised facilities such as a Sensory Room, Outdoor Provision with Sensory Garden, Poly tunnel and Forest School area. There is also a Hydrotherapy Pool and fully equipped hygiene areas along with a fully equipped apartment, encouraging independent living skills. Play/leisure areas have been planned according to the needs of the pupils and to enable them to develop both physically, socially and cognitively.

You will be working with students across the school to support children on a 1:1 and whole class basis. Some of the students need support with personal care and there are some students who display challenging behaviours.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a SEND Teaching Assistant or Carer looking for a flexible and rewarding role in a lovely setting. The role has great potential to become permanent.

The successful candidate will:

• Have a committed and passionate view of students with SEND
• Carry out medical procedures including administering medication, undertaking specialist feeding programmes, assessing when suctioning is required and carrying out suctioning procedures, emergency tracheotomy procedures including removal and replacement, administering oxygen, ventilation, basic life support, assessing respiratory effort. (These duties are to be undertaken following appropriate training)
• Have the ability to remain emotionally resilient when working with pupils with a range of needs, including life threatening health needs
• Provide particular support for individual pupils with special educational and complex health care needs (including tracheotomy) assisting with their learning activities, providing supervision and care
• Assist with the personal needs of pupils including social, health, physical, hygiene, first aid and welfare matters. This includes toileting, feeding and positioning
• Prepare the classroom and resources for the pupil as directed for lessons and to clear afterwards
• Report to the teacher or line manager any pupil problems or behavioural difficulties in accordance with school policy
• Report to the teacher or line manager on pupil progress and achievements in accordance with school policy
• Assist the teacher or the line manager by contributing as directed to a pupils’ individual behaviour/education plan
• Provide or gather accurate routine information to or from parents/carers under the direction of the teacher or line manager
• Provide general support with learning activities appropriate to age and ability, to enable pupils to understand instructions and to ensure they remain on task
• Assist with the daily maintenance of equipment (including medical equipment) and resources through appropriate cleaning and storage
• Assist pupils in using resources e.g. ICT
• Assist with the supervision of the pupil outside of lesson times, including before and after school and at lunchtimes. These duties shall be undertaken within the post holder’s contractual hours
• Participate in school visits, assisting with activities as required
• Promote and adhere to a healthy safeguarding culture of open and transparent working, following policy and practice at all times, ensuring safeguarding is at the heart of everything you do and every action is in the best interests of the pupil

Desirable but not essential:

• Experience of working in a SEND environment or similar unit/provision
• Team Teach training
• Moving and Handling training

Why choose Career Teachers?

• A Refer a Friend Scheme giving you a bonus of up to £125
• Exclusive vacancies within local Schools and Multi Academy Trusts 
• Competitive weekly pay
• Assignments paid to a scale after 12 weeks (AWR)
• Online time sheets
• Your own dedicated consultant
• Guaranteed pay schemes
• Genuine refer a friend scheme
• Affinity Extra – Thousands of discounts on multiple high street shops including coffee and cinemas, plus other benefits and a Health & Well-being portal.

*These benefits are applicable to those who are working with Career Teachers. You will gain access to the Affinity Extra this portal once you start working with us.

All roles will require an enhanced criminal record disclosure (DBS), although we can help with this process a new application is required if your current DBS is not on the update service, and reference checks.

If the above role is just what you’re looking for, then please send across your CV by clicking the apply button. If not, check out our website for a range of opportunities that might excite you!

Career Teachers are committed to providing equal opportunities for all candidates and welcomes applications regardless of sex, race, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, religion and belief pregnancy and maternity or disability as well as adhering to strict Safeguarding procedures.

This vacancy is based in the United Kingdom. Career Teachers operate in the UK and can only process applications from candidates who are currently UK residents and eligible to work in the UK. Whilst we will endeavour to contact you following your response, due to the high volume of applications we regret that this cannot always be possible. If you have not had notification from us within 30 days please take your application as not being successful this time but we will keep your details on file for future opportunities.

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