Your new company

Hays Recruitment are proud to be supporting a Chester-based secondary school as they are looking to appoint a motivated and reliable teaching assistant to support their resource base. As a resource teaching assistant, you will be supporting pupils with SEN.

Your new role

Within your role as a teaching assistant within this school, you will be supporting pupils with SEN within the resource base. The complexity and needs of the pupils you will be supporting will vary. Typically, you will support ASD, LD, GLD and challenging behaviours. Due to this, you will be required to take a pupil-centred approach to learning as to ensure that the individual needs and emotional state of each pupil are met. You will support your new pupils on a 1:1 and small group basis, offering intervention and booster sessions in core subjects and working under the instruction of the class teacher. You will also be required to implement positive behaviour strategies including the effective monitoring of triggers, de-escalation and sensory therapy.

What you'll need to succeed

To be considered in your application, you must have full "Right to Work" in the UK as well as recent referenceable experience supporting SEN, as well as:

• The ability to take a pupil-centred approach to learning
• Experience delivering positive behaviour support
• Be able to commit to a long-term full-time contract

What you'll get in return

If you are successful with your application, you will receive the full support, dedication, and guidance of a senior DfE accredited recruitment consultant as well as a wide range of benefits, which include:

• Free training
• Competitive rate of pay
• Full holiday entitlement
• Company pension
• Long-term contract
• Access to exclusive vacancies
• Refer a Friend scheme

What you need to do now

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.

If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.