Complex Needs Teaching Assistant - Southampton, United Kingdom - Reed Education

Reed Education

Verified Company

Southampton, United Kingdom

1 week ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

The role

The school

Based near Thornhill in Southampton, this wonderful primary SEN School cater for young children between the ages of 4-11 years old who have complex learning difficulties.

All the children who attend here have severe level of learning difficulties and many haveassociated disabilities such as Autism, Speech and Language Disorders, and sometimes challenging behaviour.

The purpose-built school has undergone a significant expansion which has created two buildings within our main site and both buildings have wonderfulfacilities and specialist teaching rooms including food technology rooms, art rooms, ICT Suites, soft play rooms, multi-sensory interactive rooms and a hydrotherapy pool.

What you will need

For this role, you will need experience in working with children / young people / adults that have learning difficulties or SEN.

Whilst the children that attend this school are amazing, full of life and exude lots of energy - they can sometimes be challenging,both verbally and physically although this is rare.

The school are looking for SSA's that can are kind, caring and empathetic, but also vigilant and authoritive when they need to be.

SSA's that get on well at this school are ones that want to put the timein with each child - to learn about them, work with them on their interests, and engage them in ways that sometimes need to be 'outside of the box'.

It is very much a large school but with a very close-knit team, and so being a good team player will also serveyou well here by working with the other SSA's, teachers, and support staff.

What to do now
If you have any questions before applying, then please call us on. We look forward to speaking with you.