Behavioural Specialist Teaching Assistant Full time Term time only September 2024 start! Must have SEN experience Long- Term Teachers are seeking an experienced teaching assistant, who has extensive experience supporting within a specialist environment. Working full time, Monday to Friday, term time only, This is a state funded special school for young people in years 5 - 11 who have an EHCP to support their SEMH and SCL needs. It is essential that you have previous experience of supporting students with challenging behaviour and you are confident to support them through a nurturing approach. Your role will involve: supporting teachers in the classroom working with children 1:1 or delivering sessions with small groups of students managing classroom resources taking children on trips and visits having their lunch with children who struggle socially managing heightened behaviours and keeping children safe playing board games making amazing displays celebrating success part of therapy sessions or reflecting on difficult periods. There will be an opportunity to progress to a permanent position, if you demonstrate to be an excellent addition to the team. Working with Long Term Teachers: We are an independent agency working with Nurseries, Primary, Secondary and Special Schools. LTT was founded with the aim of creating a genuine, transparent and straightforward service to help candidates secure their next role. We place a huge emphasis on delivering an exceptional service where you will be supported, listened to and valued throughout. Your dedicated consultant will invest time to understand your experience, skill-set and what your ideal role looks like. You will have frequent updates with your progress through compliance, applications for specific roles as well as receiving additional information on roles which we feel may be of interest to you. We are proud members of the REC and we have the highest standard of compliance. Working with us means you will get the very best support and guidance through the clearance process from your own specific point of contact from our in-house compliance team.