SEN Teaching Assistant

Medina Primary School is seeking to recruit a highly motivated and inclusive individual to work with our amazing pupils. If you are ready for a new challenge and enjoy working as a team player, then

This particular role is to support pupils with high levels of SEND across the school. This candidate will needto be flexible and work in a range of children supporting them to thrive academically, socially, and emotionally both in class and in our alternative learning spaces.

We are looking for an individual who has excellent skills and knowledge in this area and is able to evidence previous experience of working with SEN children in a primary school to ensure the statutory needs can bemet for these pupils. CPD will be provided along with support from outside agencies.

We are looking for someone with a strong, sensitive, caring and relational approach to children’s needs,who is able to be an effective communicator.

• Provide a sensitive and nurturing approach to children’s needs
• Be committed to supporting individual children's social, moral, emotional and academic well-being
• Have an empathetic understanding of children's emotions and behaviour and actively seeks to remove barriers to learning
• Be patient, cheerful and understanding
• Have good interpersonal skills
• Be full of innovative ideas and strategies to adapt to daily challenges
• Communicate effectively with children, team members and the wider community
• Have the ability to use their own initiative and to work as part of a team
• Have prior knowledge and experience of working with children with special educational needs
• Be calm, consistent and fair – ensuring that children are safe and happy

Join our welcoming and inclusive school community. We provide continuous training and professional development, so you can make a real difference in children's learning and future success.

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.