SEN Teaching Assistant

SEND Teaching Assistant

Location: South Shields
Contract: Full-time, long-term
Start date: Immediate / September 2025

We’re looking for a compassionate and resilient SEND Teaching Assistant to join a specialist setting in South Tyneside. The school supports children and young people with a wide range of additional needs, including autism, SEMH, communication difficulties, and complex learning needs.

As a Teaching Assistant, you will:

• Provide tailored 1:1 and small group support to pupils with additional needs
• Assist in delivering engaging lessons and activities that promote independence and confidence
• Support pupils with personal care, mobility, and communication where required
• Work closely with teachers, therapists, and other professionals to ensure consistent support strategies are in place
• Help create a safe, positive, and nurturing environment where every pupil can thrive

• Experience supporting children or young people with SEND (school-based or alternative settings)
• Calm, patient, and adaptable in your approach
• Knowledge of autism, SEMH, or PMLD needs is desirable
• Thrive training or willingness to undertake training is a bonus
• Able to build positive relationships and promote independence at every opportunity

• A supportive school community with a strong ethos of care, respect, and independence
• Ongoing CPD and training opportunities, including SEND and Thrive programmes
• The chance to make a real difference in the lives of children and young people every day

Apply now to be considered for this rewarding SEND Teaching Assistant opportunity.

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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