Teaching Assistant

Zest Education are recruiting for a fantastic opportunity to join a busy SEND school in Stourbridge to start in September 2023. The school are looking for a full-time Teaching Assistant, the position will be long-term covering until at least Easter 2024. The role will require someone has previous experience supporting individuals with SEND or experience within a care setting.

This school has two sites one catering for children from the age of 3-14 and the second catering for students from the age of 14-19 with complex needs, severe learning difficulties, including autism, and pupils with profound and multiple learning difficulties.

The team here work hard to maintain a supportive and inclusive ethos across all areas of the school and put the children at the heart of what they do. The rewards are tremendous if you are motivated by improving the life chances of young people and want to have a positive impact on their family life and future development.

The role:

• Providing support to students in and out of the classroom
• Work collaboratively as a team to improve outcomes for the students
• You will be confident, enthusiastic and be able to identify and engage with different learning needs
• You must be a dedicated individual to providing children with a secure and supportive learning environment
• You must also have excellent communication skills as will be required to work closely with the class teacher and other teaching assistants

If you are interested in this temporary position or want to find out more, email Steph Guy on steph@zesteducation.co.uk or ‘apply for job’ at the top of the page to submit your details.

Zest Education are an REC audited agency and are dedicated to safeguarding children. All candidates must hold an enhanced DBS (or allow us to process one for you) and be registered to the DBS Update Service, be able to provide references to cover the last two years and successfully pass all other necessary safeguarding checks prior to clearance for work.

Salary is dependent on experience, training or qualifications. The minimum experience, training or qualifications required for this position are: Recent school-based experience (within the last 5 years, teaching within a school teaching the British Curriculum).

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