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Urgently Required: Higher Level Teaching Assistant – Amazing SEN Setting

Salary: £20, 200 per annum + holiday pay

Hours: 35 hours per week, 09:00 – 16:30

Contract: Permanent

Location: Near to Heathrow

Background to the Role

This SEN Education Setting is a small, dynamic UK registered Charity, working to improve the employability of disadvantaged 16-25 year olds through their horticulture and catering programmes. The setting have over fifteen years of experience developing and implementing projects across West London and surrounding counties to improve local communities and the green spaces that they rely on.

The five-year strategy is to:

Support more disadvantaged young people especially those with special educational needs (SEN) and vulnerable adults currently not in employment, education or training (NEET) and those at risk of becoming so.

Provide a wider range of learning opportunities for young people who do not suit the ‘traditional’ academic system and are better suited to vocational training.

Become financially sustainable through income diversification including new social enterprise activities for their young people.

Summary of the Role

This small, successful charity runs Horticulture, Catering and Functional Skills programmes to help young people, with special educational needs and learning disabilities, to gain confidence, life skills and social support, alongside nationally recognised qualifications.

The Charity requires the skills of an enthusiastic and reliable Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA) to support the running of their Learning and Development Centre, within each of their four departments. This role will be extremely rewarding, you will be supporting a team of Teaching Assistants and work closely with the Head of Department to deliver and support high quality and interactive provision.

About you

You will be well organised, have good planning skills, have experience of working with children and young people with autism, using a behavioural approach, a commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Above all, you will also need the physical and emotional resilience to work with young people who often present behaviours that challenge.

Experience of PECS, SCERTS, Phonics, TEACHH curriculum will be helpful to support students throughout the day.

You will ideally have experience in at least one of the following areas: Horticulture, Catering, Functional Skills (Maths and English), and/or Life Skills. If you have experience and/or knowledge in either of these areas, please call Paul on 01293 527416 or email paul.hirchfield@randstadeducation.co.uk

Urgently Required: Higher Level Teaching Assistant – Amazing SEN Setting

Salary: £20, 200 per annum + holiday pay

Hours: 35 hours per week, 09:00 – 16:30

Contract: Permanent

Location: Near to Heathrow

Background to the Role

This SEN Education Setting is a small, dynamic UK registered Charity, working to improve the employability of disadvantaged 16-25 year olds through their horticulture and catering programmes. The setting have over fifteen years of experience developing and implementing projects across West London and surrounding counties to improve local communities and the green spaces that they rely on.

The five-year strategy is to:

Support more disadvantaged young people especially those with special educational needs (SEN) and vulnerable adults currently not in employment, education or training (NEET) and those at risk of becoming so.

Provide a wider range of learning opportunities for young people who do not suit the ‘traditional’ academic system and are better suited to vocational training.

Become financially sustainable through income diversification including new social enterprise activities for their young people.

Summary of the Role

This small, successful charity runs Horticulture, Catering and Functional Skills programmes to help young people, with special educational needs and learning disabilities, to gain confidence, life skills and social support, alongside nationally recognised qualifications.

The Charity requires the skills of an enthusiastic and reliable Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA) to support the running of their Learning and Development Centre, within each of their four departments. This role will be extremely rewarding, you will be supporting a team of Teaching Assistants and work closely with the Head of Department to deliver and support high quality and interactive provision.

About you

You will be well organised, have good planning skills, have experience of working with children and young people with autism, using a behavioural approach, a commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Above all, you will also need the physical and emotional resilience to work with young people who often present behaviours that challenge.

Experience of PECS, SCERTS, Phonics, TEACHH curriculum will be helpful to support students throughout the day.

You will ideally have experience in at least one of the following areas: Horticulture, Catering, Functional Skills (Maths and English), and/or Life Skills. If you have experience and/or knowledge in either of these areas, please call Paul on 01293 527416 or email paul.hirchfield@randstadeducation.co.uk

  • experience

    Teaching

  • skills

    ability to track progression in attainment,background in youth work,behaviour management,building relationships,classroom management,communication,de-escalation techniques,empathy,experience in administering medication,experience in managing challenging behaviour,experience with autism spectrum disorders,experience with learning difficulties,experience with social emotional mental health,inclusiveness,manual handling,marking,mentor experience,personal care experience,planning,resilience,restraint training,speech and language therapy experience

  • qualifications

    HLTA

  • education

    college