Connex - Central
Role: SEMH/SEN Teaching Assistant
Location: Face-to-Face, in Home, Bradford
Hours: Monday to Friday
Contract: 20 Hours a week (Term Time)
We are currently seeking an experienced SEN/SEMH Teaching Assistant to join us at Connex Education to support a pupil with complex SEN/SEMH needs. This role offers a challenging but rewarding environment where you will play a vital part in ensuring the pupil has the support they need to thrive. There will also be another Teaching Assistant and a Tutor.
Key Responsibilities:
- Help Deliver personalised 1:1 tutoring sessions to students with SEMH SEN needs, ensuring engagement and progress in their learning.
- Develop and adapt lesson plans to suit individual learning styles and needs.
- Support students’ social and emotional development alongside their academic progress.
- Create a safe, supportive, and encouraging learning environment.
- Collaborate with parents, carers, and other professionals to ensure cohesive support.
Essential
- Experience of assisting pupils with severe learning difficulties and/or Autism Spectrum Conditions
- Ability to motivate and inspire learners
- A clear vision and understanding of the requirements of pupils with special educational needs
- Ability to work with parents as partners
- Personal resilience
Desirable
- Recognised qualification in the education of pupils with SEN
- Experience of working with pupils in Key Stages 3 4 & 5
- Evidence of teaching pupils with profound and multiple learning difficulties
- Evidence of training specifically relating to pupils with PMLD
- Experience of ‘intensive interaction’ techniques
- Team Teach
Benefits:
- Flexible working hours to fit your schedule.
- Opportunities for professional development and training.
- A rewarding role where you can make a tangible impact on students’ lives. We deliver tuition and interventions to over 100,000 pupils every year.
- Free access to our Tutor Toolkit skills development package comprising over 34 courses.
- You will be measured against our 22 standards of tutoring excellence and provided on going skills development as required.
- Professional tutor quality mark.
- Funded formal qualifications, from Level 3 teaching and learning and Level 5 TEFL.
- Progression pathway to a professional freelance tutor
- Competitive daily rate.
- PAYE paid weekly.
If you are enthusiastic about education and have a strong commitment to supporting young people with SEMH/SEN challenges, we would love to hear from you!
Protected Characteristics:
All offers are conditional upon satisfactory background checks, including a DBS check. All appointments will be made subject to a DBS check. Connex Education Partnership is committed to a policy of equal opportunities. We respect and value cultural and religious diversity and will not discriminate based on age, gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnic origin, religion, culture, marital status or disability. Everyone is assessed on merit alone.
Connex Education Partnership is an employment agency and employment business.
If you are interested in this opportunity, please submit your CV and a cover letter outlining your relevant experience to shane.fawcett@connex-education.com or call 01422 484377.
