Job Description
New Directions Education is recruiting a full-time PMLD Teaching Assistant for a specialist provision in South Liverpool.
The role will involve supporting non-verbal children with Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties (PMLD) across EYFS and Key Stage 1, helping them to access learning through highly personalised, sensory-based approaches. The provision offers a nurturing, structured environment focused on communication, engagement, and early development.
What you’ll be doing:
1. Supporting non-verbal pupils with PMLD in EYFS and KS1
2. Assisting with sensory-based learning, communication strategies, and early development activities
3. Working closely with teachers and therapists to support individual learning plans
What we’re looking for:
4. Experience supporting children with PMLD or complex needs is desirable
5. A calm, patient, and nurturing approach
6. Confident working as part of a multidisciplinary team
7. Able to pass an enhanced DBS and provide recent references
What New Directions Education Ltd offers:
8. A dedicated and expert Account Manager
9. Regular and varied supply work
10. Competitive rates of pay
11. Potential long-term teaching roles
12. Full compliance with the Agency Workers Regulation (AWR)
13. A network of branches across the UK
14. Preferred supplier to more than 20 boroughs across the UK
15. Recommend-a-friend scheme
16. Respected reputation across the education and recruitment industry
We are fully committed to the protection of children and vulnerable adults. All applicants must undertake a full enhanced DBS check.
Please select Apply Now to enquire about this job vacancy with New Directions Education Ltd, Liverpool branch.
New Directions Education Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.