LSA Care Background

Seeking an LSA with Care background!

• Do you want to make a difference?
• Do you love working with children or vulnerable adults and have a passion for special needs?
• Do you have a social care background?
• Or even had personal experience supporting SEND?

If so, then this is the role for you!

Protocol Education are looking to recruit a learning support assistant/teaching assistant to join a specialist school in Colchester.

You will be joining a great team that predominantly work with children who have a variety of special needs, including MLD, SLD, ASD and PMLD. Therefore, a desire to assist in this area is required, but no experience is necessary!

Training in First Aid, Manual Handling, Hoist and Medicine Administration would be desirable.

A friendly and positive approach to teaching and learning, as well as the ability to quickly build up strong relationships and rapport with individual children is important.

This is a long‑term, full‑time position so we are looking for candidates to be available 5 days a week between the hours of 8:30am‑15:30pm.

If you have a real passion for supporting children with special needs and think this role sounds right for you then please call Angharad Rankin on or apply now!

All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role. Please see the FAQs on the Protocol Education website for further 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.

Protocol Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We undertake safeguarding checks on all workers in accordance with the 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 FREE online safeguarding and Prevent Duty training to all our workers. All candidates must undertake or have undertaken a valid enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and subscribe to the DBS Update Service.

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