Behaviour Support Assistant - SEMH Focus

Behaviour Support Assistant – SEMH Focus

Location: South Shields
Contract: Full-time, Long-term
Start Date: ASAP
Pay: Excellent daily rate

This role supports pupils with social, emotional and mental health needs who require consistent boundaries and trusted adults to help them succeed in school.

If you’re confident supporting challenging behaviour and understand the importance of routines, relationships and regulation, this could be a great fit.

• Providing targeted behaviour support in and out of the classroom
• Supporting pupils during moments of dysregulation
• Helping pupils re-engage with learning after incidents
• Promoting positive behaviour and emotional literacy
• Working closely with pastoral and teaching teams

• Experience supporting children with SEMH or behavioural needs
• A calm, firm but fair approach
• Strong communication and observation skills
• Confidence working one-to-one and in small groups

• You see real progress, even if it’s small steps
• Strong team support and shared approaches
• Work that genuinely changes outcomes for pupils

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.