Speech & Language Support Assistant
Listed on 2026-10-26
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Education / Teaching
Speech Pathologist, Special Education Assistant, Teacher Assistant/ Paraprofessional, Special Needs / Learning Disabilities
Interested in supporting children with communication and interaction needs?
Protocol Education is recruiting a Speech & Language Support Assistant to work in specialist SEND settings across Newcastle upon Tyne
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Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Contract: Full-Time
You will support pupils who experience speech, language and communication difficulties. Working alongside teachers and specialist professionals, you'll help pupils develop communication skills, confidence and independence.
This role is ideal for candidates interested in Speech & Language Therapy, SEND education or child development.
What You'll Be Doing- Supporting communication-focused interventions
- Working with pupils on a 1:1 basis
- Encouraging language development and social interaction
- Supporting classroom learning
- Reinforcing therapy strategies throughout the school day
- Monitoring progress and providing feedback to staff
- Excellent communication skills
- Patient and supportive approach
- Experience working with children desirable
- Interest in SEND and communication needs
- Ability to build positive relationships
- Psychology Graduates
- Linguistics Graduates
- Teaching Assistants
- Aspiring Speech & Language Therapists
- SEND Practitioners
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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