SEND Primary Cover Teaching Assistant

SEND Primary Teaching Assistants

Pay Scale: £85 – 96 per day

Start Date: January 2025

Location: Castleford WF11

Full-time or part-time

Join Our Outstanding Team at Career Teachers!

We are seeking a number of enthusiastic committed professionals to join us as Primary Cover Teaching Assistants in a Specialist SEND School in Castleford. 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 Castleford site is designed to support pupils with severe and complex learning difficulties, including many with autism. The school has been extended and refurbished to meet these needs, and it also accommodates students with additional medical, physical, or sensory impairments

The site features eleven classrooms, including early foundations classrooms, and specialised facilities such as a Sensory Integration Room, outdoor Sensory Integration Provision, Sensory Room, Sensory Pod, Trampoline, Communication/Language Development Room, and a Ball Pool. There are also dedicated areas for music and art, literacy and math interventions, therapy groups, and fully equipped hygiene areas

For outdoor activities, the school offers various play areas, including those for Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 pupils, as well as adventure and roadway play areas, a sports play area, and an inclusive play area with a large climbing structure, roundabout, swings, and an outdoor trampoline. This is a school where the team of staff work together to provide great experiences and accessible education for each individual student with care and consideration embedded in everything they do. Through encouragement, a wide range of learning opportunities and an enthusiastic staff, the school works in partnership with parents to ensure each child will fulfil their potential.

Outdoor learning is a feature of the curriculum. The school is fortunate to have extensive grounds, which have been developed over the years. 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 children across the school to support children on a 1:1 and whole class basis. Some of the children need support with personal care and there are children that display challenging behaviours. This is a fantastic opportunity for a SEND Teaching Assistant looking for a flexible and rewarding role.

The successful candidate will:

• Support the class teacher to deliver a range of subjects and learning to aid student’s progression
• Work with students on a 1:1 and whole class basis
• Work both indoors and outdoors, including Forest School activities
• Work as part of the team to deliver lessons, support positive behaviour, and to make students feel safe so that they can learn and achieve
• Work with outside agencies such as physical therapists and speech and language therapists to provide the best outcomes for all students
• Follow whole school systems to teaching and learning. The school will support you with a full induction, they are a very supportive team

Our ideal candidate will have:

• A committed and passionate view of students with SEND
• Experience of working in a SEND environment or similar unit/provision
• Level 2 or above childcare qualification

Why choose Career Teachers?

• Competitive weekly pay
• Assignments paid to a scale after 12 weeks (AWR)
• Friendly and honest service
• 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.

Career Teachers are a leading national education agency that specialise in the recruitment of long term and daily supply teachers and support staff. As a teacher or teaching assistant, you will have a dedicated consultant who will support you with your career and who will give you access to a variety of opportunities that suit your needs.

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.

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.