Learning Support Assistant in Portsmouth

Location: Portsmouth
Salary: £1,200 per week
Recruiter: Teaching Personnel
Job Hours: Full-time

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Learning Support Assistant – Portsmouth (full time and part time roles available)Your duties will include:You need to be flexible, energetic, and ideally have experience of working with children with profound and complex disabilities and/or autism. 

This role could be suitable for a graduate with an interest in pursuing a career in teaching or learning support.

If you are considering work in this field, or already have experience please get in touch for further information.

Ideal Candidate: The ideal candidate will have experience of working with children of special educational needs and more specifically, we are specifically looking for support staff with a particular specialism such as ASD, Speech and Language, SLD and other Learning Disabilities.

Due to the nature of the students a patient, caring and compassionate approach is needed.

The ideal candidate will be free for work full time although part time roles are still available.

What you need to know about the school:The school support young peoples to develop their emotional wellbeing and social skills.

As a Support assistant you will support the school to develop students to cope better with the things they find challenging whether this is during their school day or at home. 

The successful Support assistant will help establish positive and healthy relationships, emotional wellbeing and developing social skills. 

The school are currently on the lookout for an additional teaching assistant to work through us initially with the likelihood of a permanent contract after a specific amount of time.

This is an ideal opportunity for anyone who is fancying a change in career or if you have a keen interest in special needs.

Do you enjoy doing outdoor activities?

This school offers pupils an educational experience in a ‘wild woodland’ setting, with safe, experiential learning about the world around them and how to care for it.

The pupils have regular opportunities to achieve, develop confidence and self-esteem through hands-on learning experience.

Working hours are 8:30 – 3:15Earn around £1200+ per monthAll applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role.

Please see the FAQ’s on the Teaching Personnel website for details.

All pay rates quoted will be inclusive of 12.

07% statutory holiday pay.

This advert is for a temporary position.

In some cases, the option to make this role permanent may become available at a later date.

Teaching Personnel is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.

We undertake safeguarding checks on all workers in accordance with DfE statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ this may also include an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted applicants.

We offer all our registered candidates FREE child protection and prevent duty training.

All candidates must undertake or have undertaken a valid enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

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About Teaching Personnel


Teaching Personnel is the UK’s leading education recruitment agency. Since 1996 we have registered hundreds of thousands of teachers and classroom support staff who have chosen us to help them find work in UK classrooms. Our mission statement 'Making a Difference Every Day through Staffing, Tutoring and Supply' captures the essence of what we do, the services we provide and what is really important about the work undertaken by our branches.

We commit to 'quality' always aiming to provide the best services, the best candidates and the best value. We strive to always be the 'leading' agency in the market, making sure we have sufficient branch staff, locations and candidates to meet all of the staffing needs at our client schools. We are committed to being 'expert' at what we do by training our staff to understand the schools market and the importance of fulfilling the special and often unique requirements of each individual school. We want to be recognised as... Quality - Leading - Experts

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