Learning Support Assistant

1:1 Learning Support Assistant in the Foundation Phase Location: Barry Salary: £12.95p/h Job type: Mon-Fri (8.20am-3.30pm) Start: November 2024 – July 2025 Here at Teaching Personnel, we are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, patient, and pro-active Special Educational Needs (SEN) Teaching Assistant to support a child within the reception class. The Primary school we are partnered with, caters for a wide and diverse range of differently able pupils. We are recruiting for a Teaching Assistant to join the successful behaviour support team within the Foundation Phase. The positions will be working 1:1 with a non-diagnosed child who displays early signs of autism as well as  aggressive behaviours and is easily triggered. The position is within a Welsh medium primary school, meaning all applicants must be able to communicate through the medium of Welsh. Your duties: Support the pupil in a range of daily activities and experiences helping them understand social situations and emotions Create a positive and caring, safe, and secure environment Help to build positive relationships between home and school Develop working relationships with our internal health and external health professionals sharing working practices Whilst having experience working with children who have SEN in a professional setting is desirable, we welcome applications from people who have personal experience or someone who is willing to fully engage and develop skills in the area. Additional Information (required): Provide 2x professional references Right to work in the UK Enhanced DBS check (or be willing to apply for one – full assistance provided) EWC registration (assistance provided) Why Teaching Personnel? Teaching Personnel’s consultants are education recruitment specialists. You will be given your own dedicated consultant who will tailor the entire process to you. For those looking to gain skills or refine skills we have a CPD academy with hundreds of free/ heavily discounted courses. In addition to this we have a competitive rate of pay and charge no administration fees. We are excited to bring on board energetic, kind, and nurturing educators. If you are open to a challenge, want to help those most in need, start an exciting new career then this is the opportunity for you. We expect to receive a high number of applicants for this position. If you are interested, then please get in touch today!  All 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. Full assistance provided. For details of our privacy policy, please visit the Teaching Personnel website